A best-selling classic, now in a fourth edition, that provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the theoretical foundations of foreign and second language teaching.
The Classic Few
items can genuinely be termed "a classic". '57 Chevys and 65 Mustangs,
Melville's Moby Dick - and a language teaching textbook? Brown's Principles of Language Learning and Teaching
is the classic primer on second language learning -- so much so that it
continues to feature in many of the North American MATESL programs. Now
in a fourth edition (the first edition was published in 1980), the book
has grown with the advancement of studies in Second Language
Acquisition. It has undergone significant reorganization and updating
in this new edition.
So, can a textbook be a classic? Well, Brown's Principles of Language Learning and Teaching
remains the standard after 20 years. For those teachers who haven't
taken a course in language learning theory, the readability of this
book, along with its stature within the profession, makes it a "first
choice" in your next bookshop visit, along with current best sellers
and, of course, "literary classics".
This classic work, whose first edition sold more than 120,000 copies, is designed to cover all of the major movements in literary studies in this century. The second edition contains a major new survey chapter that addresses developments since the book's original publication in 1983, including feminist theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism-what is broadly referred to as cultural theory.
Based on the text of Margaret Drabble's 1995 edition, this sixth edition has been completely reworked and expanded. There are nearly 600 entirely new entries to reflect the new figures and issues of English Literature in the new millennium, and the existing entries have been extensively revised and updated to incorporate the latest scholarship. But this new edition remains faithful to Sir Paul Harvey's original vision of an authoritative work placing English literature from the Classical world, Europe, Latin America, and beyond. In addition to the extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters, there are sixteen featured essay-style entries on key topics.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
This revised edition provides a survey of current biochemistry and molecular biology in the form of a dictionary. It contains short but informative entries arranged under more than 17,000 headwords. It is intended as a handy reference of first resource for those seeking information outside their immediate knowledge area or for those who need to refresh their memory of fundamental knowledge. This revised edition has been fully up-dated in order to include the new information that has been discovered since the original edition was published in 1997.
