This is a thorough revision and update of the popular first edition. Comprehensive and contemporary, it contains all the student needs to know on the topic, presenting often difficult material in a lively and accessible way. There is coverage of all the core topics in Language in the undergraduate curriculum and the author interweaves evidence from the various approaches including cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and connectionist modelling. This edition includes expanded coverage of many topics including reading development, bilingualism and language and memory.
This accessible volume provides readers - whether students new to the field or just interested members of the lay public - with the essential ideas of genetics using a minimum of jargon and mathematics. Concepts are introduced in a progressive order so that more complicated ideas build on simpler ones, and each is discussed in small, bite-sized segments so that they can be more easily understood.
Genetics 101 provides readers of all levels a brief introduction for understanding a science that is so essential to the advancement of science today. It covers:
- Genetics as a science
- The applications of genetics, including developmental genetics and behavioral genetics
- Genetics counseling, and other ways in which genetics impacts our lives
- The future of the science of genetics, including genetically modified organisms, cloning, and transgenics
A glossary and sources for further research complete this handy resource.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy made his only inaugural address at 12:51 (ET) Friday, January 20, 1961, immediately after taking the presidential oath of office administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
The address is 1364 words and took 13 minutes and 59 seconds to deliver, from the first word to the last word, not including applause at the end, making it the fourth-shortest inaugural address ever delivered.
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A Companion to American Indian History
captures the thematic breadth of Native American history.Twenty-five
original essays written by leading scholars, both American Indian
and non-American Indian, bring a comprehensive perspective to a history
that in the past has been related exclusively by Euro-Americans.
The essays cover a wide range of Indian
experiences and practices, including contacts with non-Indians, religion,
family, economy, law, education, gender, and culture. They reflect new
approaches to Native America drawn from environmental, comparative, and gender
history in their exploration of compelling questions regarding performance,
identity, cultural brokerage, race and blood, captivity, adoption, and slavery.
Each chapter also encourages further reading by including a carefully selected
bibliography.
Intended for students,
scholars, and general readers of American Indian history, this timely book is
the ideal guide to current and future research.
