As all Tintin fans know, once you've read one of his terrific adventures, you've got to read another and then another. Each of these collections contains three classic and fully complete Tintin adventures. Packed with all the color, wit, and derring-do that has made Tintin one of the world's most beloved comic characters, these books are easy to carry and fun to read each.
A one-stop Desk Reference, for engineers involved in renewable energies; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. The full range of renewable energies are explored including solar, wind, geothermal and bioenergy.
This book introduces linguistics, the study of human languages. the author provides a succinct, but lucid outline of the ways in which languages has been defined, described, and explored, and guides readers towards further exploration of their own.
Since it first appeared more than fifteen years ago, Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguisticshas been an immensely popular textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language.
Organized in four parts - Languages and Communities, Inherent Variety, Words at Work, and Understanding and Intervening - the book offers an accessible, comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics. Topics explored include language, dialects, pidgins and creoles, codes, bilingualism, speech communities, variation, and change.
Last year's best short-form SF—selected by acclaimed, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer—offers stunning new extrapolations on what awaits humankind beyond the next dawn. The art of the story is explored boldly and provocatively in this powerful new collection of Year's Best speculative fiction.