Since its first publication in 1926, this world famous guide to English usage has come to be known affectionately simply as `Fowler'. Journalists, broadcasters, and writers of all kinds have turned to it whenever they have required definitive judgements on all matters of English usage. Taking account of the extensive changes in standard English over the last 20 years, 'Fowler' has been written afresh and expanded by Robert Burchfield, the distinguished Oxford lexicographer.
Culture Vulture is a supplementary material for Gimnazjum level, which comprises a selection of texts and activities on various current issues of modern life in Europe - especially Britain - and Poland.
A great book to establish an understanding for how the current investment strategies came about. Petere Bernstein did a great job of introducing mathematical masterminds such as Louis Bachelier; the inventor of stochastic analysis concepts, the birth of Dow Jones, the creation of S&P 500 index by Alfred Cowles, Portfolio Selection by Harry Markowitz and many other financial and statistical intellects.
The Oxford History of Modern War by Charles Townshend Book Description How has war shaped modern society and vice
versa? How has it changed over the centuries between the introduction
of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today?
This book examines the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare
from the 'military revolution' of the seventeenth century to the
present day. The expert contributors explore major developments and
themes, including the growth of modern military professionalism and
mass armies; the extraordinary achievements of Napoleon's armies; the
role of nationalism in battlegrounds as various as the American Civil
War and the former Yugoslavia; colonial wars; the concept and reality
of 'total war'; guerrilla warfare and 'people's wars'. (Amazon.com)
Modern English linguistics: A structural and transformational grammar by John P Broderick Modern English Linguistics showed how transformational grammar developed
out of American structuralist morphology and syntax. It then went on
to describe English grammar in some detail using the so-called "extended
standard theory" of transformational grammar described in Noam Chomsky's
book, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Despite considerable changes
in Chomsky's ideas in the 1980s and 1990s (as for example, government and
binding theory), linguistics textbooks continued to be published well into
the 1990s that were still based on the Aspects model.
