The industrial revolution was the single most important development in human history over the past three centuries, and it continues to shape the contemporary world. With new methods and organizations for producing goods, industrialization altered where people live, how they play, and even how they define political issues.
Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians - experts who have helped to define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this reference's content.
From "Russian toilette" to "going ham," this even more fularious edition of Urban Dictionary features the latest and greatest definitions ever for the words that define our world.
In 1999, Aaron Peckham established UrbanDictionary.com, inviting users to define their world by compiling the most epic collection of slang ever. Since then, the site has skyrocketed in popularity, amassing thousands of definitions and edumacating millions. Users submit about 2,300 new entries every day!
In this totally and awesomely revised edition of the best-selling original, readers will find defs—mostly new, some updated, and all fularious—for the most current word creations.
Contrastive AnalysisThe new Applied Linguistics and Language Study series is intended to reflect an increasing awareness by language teachers of the contribution to classroom teaching of linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. The volumes in the series cover areas of pedagogical application of such theoretical and descriptive studies and thus define more clearly the scope of applied linguistics and language studyfor the informed language teacher and student
In The Portable Postmodernist, Arthur Asa Berger introduces key concepts written by postmodernism's leading theorists including Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson. This collage of influential writing is followed by Berger's concise, accessible comments. Written for the newcomer, Berger's lucid explanations define the postmodernism's most elusive ideas. Organized in fifty segments, the book runs the gamut from postmodern architecture to feminism to punk music.
