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This text is suitable for students who are beginning linguistics. It assumes no prior knowledge and contains useful suggestions for developing an understanding of the subject.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development and consequences of disability policies, contrasting policies grounded in medical definitions of disability with a 'social model' of disability supported by disability rights campaigners in their pursuit of anti-discrimination legislation.

A systematically revised and updated new edition of a highly acclaimed text which was an immediate bestseller on courses around the world.

The New Regional Politics of Development assesses the various development strategies being pursued in each of the major regions of the world.

This truly international history of Yugoslavia exposes the role played by other nations in the rise and fall of the nation. Ann Lane's argument is that the world's most powerful countries exacerbated the tensions in Yugoslavia, manipulating domestic difficulties for the purpose of power politics.

The introduction situates the novel in relation to the history of critical reception, of both Hardy's work in general and the novel in particular. In addition, it addresses the ways in which critical work on Hardy since the 1970s has sought to reassess the novelist, while complicating the reader's understanding and appreciation of Hardy.

Economic development continues to be an area of interest to students on a variety of courses. The second edition of this book provides a lively and interesting introduction to the subject covering all of the major issues, including Third World debt, income distribution and environmental problems.

This book provides an overview of Mark Twain's work and a close critical analysis of the forms and themes of his major texts.

By incorporating the most recent Western and Soviet research the authors explain the legendary complexities of Comintern history and chart its degeneration from a revolutionary internationalist organisation into an obedient instrument of Soviet foreign policy.

The second edition of this popular nursing text now includes a fuller description of nursing models and their application with special reference to care of the anxious patient. The book has been updated to include an outline of the Mental Health Act 1983 and numerous other important developments in care of the mentally ill.

A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe provides a comprehensive yet approachable survey of Hungarian history from the prehistoric age to the present day.

The book illustrates, uniquely, the interface between finance and management and, in particular, how strategic marketing decisions affect a company's financial management in terms of sales volume, profitability, return on investment and other indices of performance.

Was the Golden Age of Spain in the sixteenth century an illusion? By introducing and examining some of the key issues and themes involved, Henry Kamen offers a balanced discussion of this question. 2nd edn has been thoroughly revised and rewritten in the light of recent research and new chapters added covering religion and culture.

This Guide traces the response to Mansfield Park from the opinions of Jane Austen's contemporaries, through nineteenth-century reviews and twentieth-century critical analyses, to the diverse readings of the novel available to the twenty-first-century reader.

This work offers a comprehensive account of religion in Western societies, focusing particularly on Western Europe and North America but taking in developments elsewhere around the globe as appropriate. It examines beliefs, practices, patterns of organization and significant trends.

In so doing, he offers a new understanding of Keats's exploration of poetry, gender and desire, and provides an extended analysis of Keats's quest for poetic fame in the face of the often conflicting forces of love and sexuality. Clear, concise and insightful, this is an essential guide to one of the best-known Romantic poets.

This book includes close readings of extracts from the most commonly studied of Chaucer's tales at A level and first year university level. It guides the reader in methods of approaching extracts from difficult texts reflecting the emphasis on textual analysis in examinations. In the ANALYSING TEXTS series.

Women and Education, 1800-1980 examines and celebrates the lives, aims, and achievements of six British women educational activists within nineteenth- and twentieth-century history: Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole.

Mental Health Matters is an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users.

Drawing on research based on access to the recently-opened Soviet archives, this new edition provides a valuable thematic account of the nature of Stalinism.

Aimed at final year undergraduate students, this is the first volume to publish in a new series of text covering core subjects in operational research in an accessible student-friendly format. The Operational Research Series aims to provide a new generation of European-originated texts of practical relevance to todays student.

Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750 explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. The book's starting point is the exclusion of disabled people from the full rights of citizenship because of their marginality to the labour market.

Drawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities.

Peter Hyland provides a highly readable account of the historical, social and political pressures of Shakespeare's England and the material conditions under which his plays were written, including a comprehensive description of the development and status of the theatrical profession.

It goes on to analyse, making extensive use of oral history, the pervasive and many-sided influence of Christianity before considering the limits of this influence. The forms of Christianity most typical of this time are then considered, with special emphasis on Evangelism at home and abroad and differences between male and female religiosity.

During the course of the last quarter of the Twentieth-century, we witnessed a dramatic reversal in the fortunes of young people. This important new text takes as its basic premise the idea that age is a key site of division and explores the key elements of the process by which young people are integrated into society.

The book is a clear, up-to-date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East.

Sam Shepard is one of the leading playwrights in the United States today whose plays are widely performed and studied on both sides of the Atlantic. This book provides an overview of all of Shepard's plays, analyzing his experiments with dramatic structure, rhythms of performance and characters, and includes a major interview with Shepard.

Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy.

This is a study of the reasons for two long periods of peace between the European great powers, 1815-54 and 1871-1914, and the reasons for their breakdown. Special attention is paid to the limitations of the Concert of Europe and Balance of Power in making for peace.