Language: history and general works

A balanced, accessible commentary for Spirit-filled ChristiansThe Spirit who inspired the authors of the New Testament is at work today around the globe, as evidenced by the explosive growth of pentecostal, charismatic, and renewalist movements; the number of adherents is now estimated at more than half a billion.

Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader.

Michael Ungar's Nurturing Hidden Resilience in Troubled Youth is the first text in its field to examine resilience as a social construct; it offers a comprehensive theory of resilience and a model for the application of this theory to direct practice with high-risk youth in clinical, residential, and community settings.

Das Buch beschreibt den Weg der Evangelischen Kirche in Ostdeutschland vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands.

Originally published in 1959, this book was planned as a second contribution towards critique and apologetics of Quakerism, the first being a booklet called Friends and Truth published in 1956.

With 70 per cent of its people under the age of 30, Africa is the world's youngest continent.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

How important is religion for young people in America today?

Learn how to incorporate adult play therapy into your practice withthis easy-to-use guide In the Western world there has been a widening belief that play isnot a trivial or childish pursuit but rather a prime pillar ofmental health, along with love and work.

An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English.

Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length.

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language.

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond.

This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their corresponding accessibility features.

This book investigates the ways in which emerging digital technologies are shaping and changing the worlds of sexuality and gender diverse youth in Southeast Asia.

Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity.

Your Mind Is the Devil's PlaygroundHere's the truth: The devil can't beat you on even ground.

This book, first published in 1984, presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some of the variety of phonological features of British English.

The enigmatic thought of Charles S.

This book provides practical guidance for a wide range of professionals working with parents and families, answering common questions such as 'How can parents facilitate their child's transition to secondary school?

This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film.

The Protestant Reformation has long had the reputation as being a movement of "e;the Book"e;, led by reformers like John Calvin who were "e;men of the Book"e;.

In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities are discursively constructed in new and old media.

First published in 2003, this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite pronoun man, in Old English.

The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "e;transnational"e; framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivating students as global citizens.

This book is the eighth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series, co-published with The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF).

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian.

Winner- Best Scholarly Work, National Huguenot Society, 2018The Edict of Nantes ended the civil wars of the Reformation in 1598 by making France a kingdom with two religions.

In this highly original text-a collaboration between a college professor, a playwright, and an artist-graphic storytelling offers an emotionally resonant way for readers to understand and engage with feminism and resistance.

The explosion of the church in Nigeria is phenomenal, with a forward momentum that is as remarkable as the missionary optimism of the first century Church.

The focus of this book is on the impact of politics on language and identity in Hong Kong.

From Words to Grammar is a different introduction to grammar for students.

Since the global economic crisis of 2007-2008, 'capitalism' has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media.

Introducing English Grammar provides a basic grounding in English grammar, without going into too much detail or theory, and will lay the foundation for further grammatical studies.

Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency.

Yiddish—an oft-considered "e;gutter"e; language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves.

There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies.

This book adopts a multi-method multimodal approach to the study of online political communication, applying it to case studies from the United Kingdom, France, and Italy towards offering a portrait of the rapid ideological shifts in contemporary Western democracies.

Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats.

First published in 1907, the publication of these Middle-English texts aimed to make the dramatic Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus easily accessible to students of English literature.

Why has there been such an increase in the number of Presbyterian congregations celebrating the Lord's Supper every week?

In Democracy Remixed, award-winning scholar Cathy J.

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.

Articles appear frequently about individuals whose age is noted as a feature of their activism, but the activism of seniors as a growing and influential part of the population is often otherwise overlooked.