This accessible introduction to the study of film aims to stimulate students' enjoyment and understanding of a wide range of different types of film, and to give them an awareness of the nature of cinema as a medium, as an art form, and as a social and economic institution. Contemporary film is seen in context by tracing its development from 1895 to the present, exploring film production in a variety of countries in a range of styles, and placing film next to other media.
Golden Globe award–winning actor Hugh Laurie and his critically acclaimed television show House are at the heart of this compelling biography. From his childhood struggles to live up to his Olympian father’s accomplishments and his education to his comedic career with Emma Thompson and personal struggle with depression, Laurie’s past and present are revealed in illuminating detail.
Learning Science these days is much more about solving practical problems by doing investigations. At the same time, there is much less emphasis at the early stages on acquiring specialist knowledge than there used to be. This book sets out to help top primary and lower secondary pupils learn the skills of practical investigation, whilst minimising the teachers’ need to collect, prepare or purchase materials, a job which takes up more time and resources than most teachers can reasonably spare at present. The double-page ‘self-teaching’ units take one skill or topic at a time, and use only the kind of materials you could find in any classroom or home. Childrens’ immediate surroundings are made use of wherever possible.
Presenting cutting-edge research in syntax and semantics, this important volume furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics and represents a significant addition to present scholarship in the field. Leading scholars present crosslinguistic studies dealing with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities.
This Renascence Editions "imprint" is provided by arrangement with Dr. Hartmut Krech, and reproduces his text as
recieved in its entirety without change other than to add the standard RE header and footer and enough HTML coding to present it as an HTML edition, in two files for ease of handling. --Richard Bear, May 1998.
