This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these.
This book begins by giving you a geographic snapshot of the world as a whole, often using the United States as a point of comparison. It then takes you on a tour of the earth’s seven continents and 191 countries. You’ll learn about places and people, landscapes and languages. You’ll learn about the largest and smallest, the highest and lowest, and the hottest and coldest. You’ll learn which countries are growing, and which are shrinking, and why. You’ll see how we depend on other parts of the world for so many of the products we use in our part of the world.
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Recently, however, mono has experienced something of a renaissance. Not only is it widely used for advertising and fashion, but more and more enthusiast photographers are also enjoying the benefits of shooting in black & white. The main attraction of working in mono is that by stripping colour from an image, you divorce it from reality so photographs become a more effective means of self-expression. Instead of relying on realism and familiarity, they become abstracts using patterns, textures and the play of light and shade to gain appeal.At a time when colour film technology is at its peak, and the world we live in is more colourful than ever before, the idea of taking pictures in black & white may seem a little strange.
In Caesar's Messiah, a real life Da Vinci Code, Author Joseph Atwill
makes the case that the Gospels were written under the
direction of first-century Roman emperors.
