Cognitive Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Cognitive Science 2003 Vol.14Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. Cognitive Linguistics focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information, and the journal is devoted to high-quality research
As the economic system under which you live, capitalism shapes the marketplaces that determine where you live and work, how much you are paid, what you can buy, what you can accumulate toward your retirement, and every other aspect of a society based on monetary exchanges for goods and services. But capitalism's impact is about much more than money and markets. Indeed, capitalism is every bit as much a social force as an economic one.
This book is about the age-old concern with social change, which is one of the most important, challenging, and exciting topics in sociology. It is concerned with the questions of how society changes, in what direction, and by what forces this change occurs. Using exciting real-life case examples, this book draws attention to the characteristics, processes, and perspectives of social change in the United States and cross-culturally. It covers theories, patterns, spheres, duration, reactions, the impact, the costs, the strategies, and the assessment of social change. Because of its current and timely material, this is an excellent reader for social workers, counselors, and sociologists.
Named by the Greeks as Celts, the nomads who after the Ice Age set out from the steppes of Russia, and perhaps from as far afield as Persia, towards what is now Europe, could not possibly have known the impact they and their descendants would have on the world.
Douglas Preston - Impact When Wyman Ford is called in to investigate the mysterious exit hole of a meteorite that amazingly passed straight through the earth, what he finds defies all that we know about our universe. There is an ancient structure buried deep in Voltaire Crater on Deimos, one of Mars' moons. Sticking up from the structure is the unmistakable outline of a gun.
