"Great Breaks Jersey" is a concise, full-colour travel guide to the 'Queen of the Channel', with a selection of clearly laid-out walks and tours complemented by beautiful, full-colour pictures and a wealth of practical information, all in a compact package. Overview: the book starts with a spread highlighting the Top Ten Things to Do in Jersey, taking in the island's absorbing heritage, stunning coastal scenery, historic forts and fortresses, and museums and manor houses.
Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift variety.
Social Studies: New Jersey is a core comprehensive program that takes students on a fascinating journey to explore the people, places, and events that have impacted New Jersey's history. This basal program combines rich content with colorful graphics and interactive text to highlight core concepts and provide a better understanding for students. Each unit is structured with powerful reading support tools to help reinforce the main ideas and accurately organize information.
A New Jersey Anthology: A New Jersey Anthology, Second Edition
A New Jersey classic comes to life once more, and it's better than ever . . . "This excellent collection of essays covers the sweep of New Jersey history from the colonial, proprietary era to the recent politics of Mount Laurel. It brings together some of the finest writing on the state, and raises questions relevant to major themes in American history more generally. Maxine N. Lurie has provided an excellent introductory essay to contextualize each piece in the collection, and each essay also comes with suggestions for further reading on the topic." -Paul G. E. Clemens, history department, Rutgers University Praise for the prior edition . . .
Made Men: The True Rise-and-Fall Story of a New Jersey Mob Family
It wasn't until the success of "The Sopranos" that New Jersey's powerful DeCavalcante family became legitimized in the eyes of big city capos. But a higher profile meant higher risk. Member turned against member, and eventually one of them turned to reporter Greg B. Smith to expose the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in America.
