Table of contents : Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Merja Kyto -- On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Matti Kilpio -- Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Paivi Pahta and Saara Nevanlinna -- Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Irma Taavitsainen -- Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Anneli Meurman-Solin.
Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers, analysts, and practitioners. The research examines a range of topics of interest to scholars and professionals including: purposes of Higher Education, administrative leadership, athletics, diversity, student activism, social class, the history of women in postsecondary institutions, and quality and science in the globalized university.
Laney—a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world—thinks she’s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; a story that will haunt her forever.
Paleoclimatology Vol. 68 - Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary 2nd Ed.
Raymond S. Bradley provides his readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of all of the important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction, dating and paleoclimate modeling. Two comprehensive chapters on dating methods provide the foundation for all paleoclimatic studies and are followed by up-to-date coverage of ice core research, continental geological and biological records, pollen analysis, radiocarbon dating, tree rings and historical records. New methods using alkenones in marine sediments and coral studies are also described.
Reconstructing American Historical Cinema - From Cimarron to Citizen Kane
In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J. E. Smyth dramatically departs from the traditional understanding of the relationship between film and history. By looking at production records, scripts, and contemporary reviews, Smyth argues that certain classical Hollywood filmmakers were actively engaged in a self-conscious and often critical filmic writing of national history. Her volume is a major reassessment of American historiography and cinematic historians from the advent of sound to the beginning of wartime film production in 1942.
