The History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC
The History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural, intellectual, political, and institutional developments of the pre-imperial period. The four subperiods of Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States, are described on the basis of literary and material sources and the evidence of recently found manuscripts.
Death is material by its very nature. Defining death is difficult since it often involves ideas of a soul or a spiritual entity which is believed to live on in various metaphysical realms. However, the universal aspect which characterises death is the corpse. The absence of life is physical, material and real; it is a dead body. It is this primary materiality of death which triggers human responses to the inevitable, and all funerals, in one way or another, solve the problem of the decaying corpse. The contributors to this book discuss and explore alternative ways of dealing with burials.
CD-ROM to American Global CompaniesThis CD-ROM is a companion piece to the American Global Companies textbook series, written by top Russian educators from across the country. It combines texts from several sources, predominant among them the Voice of America and eJournal USA.
The goal in creating this CD-ROM was to take this wealth material and make it classroom friendly.
Along with each written text are activities—listening, writing, critical thinking, vocabulary development, discussion topics, games
This book is a guide to the practical application of statistics to data analysis in the physical sciences. It is primarily addressed at students and professionals who need to draw quantitative conclusions from experimental data. Although most of the examples are taken from particle physics, the material is presented in a sufficiently general way as to be useful to people from most branches of the physical sciences.
The Social Stratification of English in New York City (2nd edition)
One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of new material, he explores the unforeseen implications of his earlier work and evaluates the success of newer approaches to sociolinguistic investigation.
