Private Lives, a comedy of manners that focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in the same hotel, is considered a prime example of the sophisticated comedies of Noël Coward, one of the most-prominent dramatists of his era.
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This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in education – learning. Once understood as a highly individual process, learning is now recognised to be a strongly social event, infl uenced not only by mental processes, but also by the context in which it occurs. Much learning takes place in contexts outside the education system, in homes and families, for example, as well as in classrooms, schools and colleges. Insights from across these different contexts shed light on what learning is, and how opportunities for it can be maximized.
Forgive this old warhorse of a trope — there are two kinds of non-fiction writers in the world: those who are writers who happen to dig exploring the real world and those who are researchers who happen to know how to write standard English sentences. Bill Bryson, whose charming A Short History of Nearly Everything is a primer both on how things and words work, is an example of the former. Andrea Rock, whose The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream is a dry read about a lush subject, is a textbook example of the latter.
This book looks at the range of possible syllables in human languages. The syllable is a central notion in phonology but basic questions about it remain poorly understood and phonologists are divided on even the most elementary issues. For example, the word city has been syllabified as ci-ty (the 'maximal onset' analysis), cit-y (the 'no-open-lax-V' analysis), and cit-ty (the 'geminate C' analysis).
