When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the[...]

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also comple[...]

This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion p[...]

This title offers a clearly written and comprehensive set of definitions of key terms in discourse analysis, a core area of all linguistics and language studies courses. Unlike many other areas of linguistics, Discourse analysis is a complex field to define, comprising a number of related but differ[...]

Focusing on legal issues in sport, this title delivers the information students need and sport management professionals require in order to navigate liability issues, protect the legal rights of their employees and athletes and manage legal risk in their professions. It guides readers through the ma[...]

Key maths is the best-selling, comprehensive course which has been written and developed by practising classroom teachers. A new completely updated and revised edition which is fully in-line with revised National Curriculum requirements and the new Framework for Teaching Mathematics at KS3.[...]

Learn to work effectively and creatively with all versions of ZBrush ZBrush is used by top artists in Hollywood to model and sculpt characters in such films as "Avatar," "Iron Man," and "Pirates of the Caribbean." In addition, this amazing technology is also used in jewelry design, forensic science,[...]