Intended to help you make the most of your childrenıs natural curiosity. B&W drawings.

In the hands of mental_floss, history's most interesting bits have been handpicked and roasted to perfection. Packed with little-known stories and outrageous—but accurate—facts, you'll laugh yourself smarter on this joyride through 60,000 years of human civilization. Remember: just because it's true, doesn't mean it's boring!

This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use.

Positioning Gender in Discourse offers a newly emerging approach to the study of spoken discourse. Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis has particular relevance to analyzing the significance of gender in relation to the competing and intertextualized ways in which speakers construct their identities and their relationships through talk. This book gives readers a full account of the methodology through a study of teenagers' conversations in class, and a study of managers' discussions in team meetings.

Of all the stimuli that have inspired poets over the centuries, love in all its guises has been an unceasingly rich and varied source of powerful, romantic and exquisite verse.
Love poems have retained their popularity through the years by expressing eternal and universal emotions. We have all been struck by the sheer force of love when it hits: as Chaucer describes it in The Knight’s Tale.