Author: Jon Roper
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: presidents, american
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2001-01-15
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0748612262
ISBN-13: 9780748612260

This book looks at how John F. Kennedy confronted the challenge of the Cold War, molding the narratives of "consensus history" into the activist rhetoric of the New Frontier. It examines how his image, heroic style of leadership, and legacy -America´s war in Vietnam -had an impact upon his successors. Covering the period from 1960 to the present, the book draws upon a wide variety of sources to illuminate its subjects. After Kennedy, "hero," came Lyndon Johnson, "casualty of war"; Richard Nixon, "heroic failure"; Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, "faith-healers"; Ronald Reagan, "star"; Georg

Author: Geoffrey Leech
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: linguistics, glossaries, grammar, english, glossary
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-05-19
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0748617299
ISBN-13: 9780748617296

This alphabetical guide clearly defines standard grammatical terms and shows how they are used, encompassing variants as found in Huddleston and Pullum’s Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.

Author: Patrick Griffith
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: english, textbooks, language, edinburgh, pragmatics, semantics, introduction
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0748616322
ISBN-13: 9780748616329

This is a compact introduction to the study of meaning in the English language and how language is used, providing a solid foundation for further semantic studies.  

Author: Gibson Ferguso
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: applied, linguistics, textbooks, edinburgh, planning, education, language
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0748612629
ISBN-13: 9780748612628

This wide-ranging introduction reveals the importance of language policy in relation to migration, globalization, cultural diversity, nation-building, education, and ethnic identity throughout several countries and continents.

Authors:Kevin Harrison, Tony Boyd,
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: guides, study, politics, constitution, changing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0748622233
ISBN-13: 9780748622238

This textbook provides an introduction to the topical subject of constitutional change in Britain. It considers the historical origins of the constitution but its main focus is on recent reforms and their likely impact.It includes chapters on:? The Legislature: The House of Commons and the House of Lords? The Executive? The Judiciary? The Debate over a Written Constitution and a Bill of Rights for the UK? Devolution: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the English Regions? Electoral Reform and Referenda? The European Union and the United Kingdom Constitution? The ’Hollowing Out of the

Author: Harriet Devine Jum
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: women, writing, anthologies, anthology, victorian, period
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-02-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0748608915
ISBN-13: 9780748608911

This ground-breaking anthology brings together a wide selection of women’s writings from the Victorian period (excluding fiction and drama), most of which cannot be easily found elsewhere. There are writings from more than 60 authors, including such well known writers as Harriet Martineau, Laetitia Landon, Frances Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Gaskell, Barbara Bodichon, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Margaret Oliphant. The volume covers a broad range of public and private genres from the period including poetry, c

Author: Hector L. MacQuee
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: policy, hume, papers, public, law, property, incentive, reward, intellectual, innovation
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 074861074X
ISBN-13: 9780748610747

The protection of intellectual property - patents, copyrightand trade marks - is generally regarded as a high policy priority in the UK and the European Union. This book asks why this should be so. Is too much intellectual property actually bad for industry, trade and competition? Does intellectual property really provide an incentive for innovation through the creation of wealth? The contributors, who include the Patent Judges of the English High Court, argue that the present law and its further extension should receive much more critical scrutiny, in particular from an economic perspective.