The favorite of students and educators everywhere, James Burke the "scientific detective" is back tracking the fascinating links between technological invention, social history, economics, and, well, everything. As the Sherlock Holmes of science, Burke tracks through 12,000 years of history for the clues that lead us to great life changing inventions-the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, jet aircraft, plastics, and television. This interdisciplinary approach has never before been applied to history or science and it succeeds tremendously.

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Gateway to the Great Books  is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins.
The set includes selections - short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works - by more than one hundred authors.

Learning the Language through Movies. Focus on American Language, History and Culture via the film. There are Forrest Gump's great dialogs you can listen and read, and also exercises.

This edited volume brings conversational analysis into the study of second language pragmatics as an analytic paradigm. Interlanguage Pragmatics will be of great interest to both researchers and students of interlanguage pragmatics in applied ling