23 products in Nonfiction Books

British urban accents are undergoing rapid and extensive changes. This text surveys the modern state of accents in Britain, looking in detail at some 15 accents from around Britain and introducing issues

An exploration of the macro-social aspects of sociolinguistics. It covers issues such as cross-cultural communication problems, the linguistic behaviour of bilingual speakers, language contact, the social psychology of language, sociolinguistic variation and

This dictionary covers central terms in the core areas of linguistics - pronunciation, word structure, sentence structure, meaning, - and the key terms encountered in the study of the social, anthropological, psychological

This text examines geographical issues in the Mediterranean from a perspective that links the physical characteristics to the cultural interactions. It includes analysis of environmental management, regional development and its associated political,

Volume 2 of this two-volume text looks first at patterns of language variation, how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behavior. It goes

The geographies of retailing and consumption have become one of the key topics of the twenty-first century, both in terms of research and and undergraduate teaching. The undergraduate literature has been slow

This book provides full and accurate descriptions of terms commonly used in geographical debates about gender relations. Included is a comprehensive bibliography encouraging readers to seek out seminal texts and reach their

This volume is designed to focus on the unique, life-threatening emergencies that occur within a radiology department. Adverse reactions to contrast agents are somewhat difficult for physicians without practice to identify and

Cultural Geography in Practice provides an innovative and accessible approach to the sources, theories and methods of cultural geography. Written by an international team of prominent cultural geographers, all of whom are

So you think you've got a handle on therapeutic management? How drugs work and interact with each other, how the body handles them and how drug treatments are assessed? This self-assessment volume

OSCEs for the MRCOG Part 2 is a thorough and practical self-assessment guide that will prove invaluable as you prepare for your MRCOG Part 2 oral examination. Based on the latest changes

Provides an account of glaciers and ice sheets as monitors and indicators of environmental change. This book examines the record of environmental change within glaciers and ice sheets, and that of past