The origin of our capacity for language is a complex topic, requiring input from many disparate fields, from linguistics to paleoanthropology. Specialists in any one field are often unfamiliar with the evidence from other relevant disciplines. I perceive a need for an integration of knowledge from all relevant fields, outside as well as inside linguistics, in a single work. My purpose in writing this book is to bring together the material needed for such an integration, and to take the first steps towards the synthesis needed for a thorough understanding of the evolution of language.
More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students and teachers of macroeconomics in the new millennium. The authors skillfully trace the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics from an historical perspective.
My Word ~ (BBC Radioshow)
Here is a 3 CD collection of the British radio show; "My Word".
Performed before an appreciative audience,
My Word! the Radio series, had several segments; word origins, word meanings, word themes with teams earning two points for each correct answer. The series was created by Edward J Mason and Tony Shryane and performed by Frank Muir & Denis Norden. The most popular segment was the stories of the confused origins of popular phrases.
