Based on the evidence of the 4.5-billion-word Collins Corpus, this book is an invaluable guide to the English language as it is written and spoken today, in all areas of the world. It has been thoroughly updated, to take into account recent changes in grammar.
Trump: The Art of the Deal [Audiobook Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work - a firsthand account of the rise of America's foremost deal maker.
Cries of Battle explores war and conflict in Northumberland and Durham from the Celtic age to modern times. Rebellion, feud and civil disorder have smouldered and crackled across the North, destroying powerful families and local communities alike. Derek Dodds reconstructs these epic struggles, setting them in the context of their tumultuous times and recalling the human bravery and frailty that influenced their outcome. His account is based on the latest research and is illustrated with maps and over 100 illustrations. He also provides up-to-date information on the battlegrounds so that readers can see for themselves the evocative sites where these clashes of arms took place.
Shelley Weinberg argues that the idea of consciousness as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness runs through and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy: in his philosophical psychology and in his theories of knowledge, personal identity, and moral agency. Central to her account is that perceptions of ideas are complex mental states wherein consciousness is a constituent.
Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation
The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities.
Professor Crystal leads us through this minefield with characteristic wit, clarity, and commonsense. He gives a fascinating account of the origin and progress of every kind of punctuation mark over one and a half millennia and offers sound advice on how punctuation may be used to meet the needs of every occasion and context.
