This book presents the history of English from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It shows how English evolved in the British Isles and how it spread to the United States and through the old British empire to every corner of the world. It examines the different versions and roles of the language in every part of the globe and shows how English rose to international pre-eminence.
With approachable but impeccable scholarship fourteen experts chart the history of written and spoken English in all its rich and protean variety. Their accounts are made vivid with examples drawn from an immense range of documentary evidence including letters, diaries, and private records. They explore and explain the mixture of gradual and rapid change in the words, meanings, grammar, or pronunciation of English at different times and in different places. They examine the three-century rise of standard English and received pronunciation and consider their current status and wellbeing.
This book will appeal to everyone with a keen interest in the English language and its development.
The Child Care Handbook is designed to help with one of your most important tasks as a parent—finding and selecting care for your child. This handbook includes information about different types of child care, ideas and lists to use when you’re choosing care, and tips on what you can do to make child care a positive experience for you and your family.
Child Care Handbook is designed to help with one of your most important tasks as a parent—finding and selecting care for your child. This handbook includes information about different types of child care, ideas and lists to use when you’re choosing care, and tips on what you can do to make child care a positive experience for you and your family.
"This is essential reading for those interested in philosophy, theology, and religious and cultural studies. This is an ideal introduction to the key issues for theology in its encounter with post-modernity." "This much-needed volume is a valuable guide through the often-murky waters of postmodern theology." Theologians have responded in many different ways to the challenges posed by theories of postmodernity. Kevin J. Vanhoozer addresses the issue directly in an introductory survey of what "talk about God" might mean in a postmodern age.
One of the best reading materials and activities I have ever come across. Great when preparing or teaching for CAE. CAE Reading Skills helps students to develop the general skills necessary for the CAE Paper 1 and, at the same time, familiarizes them with the different task types that they will encounter in this part of the exam. Section A of each unit concentrates on a different Paper 1 exercise format, whereas Section B concentrates on the development of general strategies such as reading for gist.
The Easy Step by Step Guide to Communicating with More Confidence
Communicating effectively should be the simplest thing in the world, we
talk and listen or do we? And is that all there is to it? When things
go wrong in a company,a friendship, a personal relationship,
communication or rather lack of it or misinterpreting it, is often at
the heart of the problem. Improving your communication skils can bring
huge rewards; it can help you to win more contracts and sales, gain
promotion, manage your organisation or your team more effectively, find
friendship, even love. It can enhance relationships both at work and at
home. This book shows you: how to read, interpret and use body
language; how to open, structure and close conversations; how to
influence people; how to get on someone's wavelength; how to
recognise,understand and relate to different personalities; how men
break the ice and women open conversations; what he says and what she
says the different ways men and women talk; how to deal with criticism
and how to handle difficult people and situations.
