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African-American English Structure History and Use

African-American English Structure History and Use

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features in particular the grammar phonology and lexicon as well as the sociological political and educational issues connected with African-American English. The editors have played key roles in the development of African-American English and Black Linguistics as overlapping academic fields of study. Along with other leading figures notably Geneva Smitherman William Labov and Walt Wolfram they provide an authoritative diverse guide to these vitally important subject areas. Drawing on key moments of cultural significance from the Ebonics controversy to the rap of Ice-T the contributors cover the state of the art in scholarship on African-American English and actively dispel misconceptions address new questions and explore new approaches. This classic edition has a new foreword by Sonja Lanehart setting the book in context and celebrating its influence. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English key reading for Varieties of English and World Englishes modules and an important reference for students of linguistics black studies and anthropology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. | African-American English Structure History and Use

GBP 34.99
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Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity

Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity

When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II Austrian elites constructed a new identity based on being a victim of Nazi Germany. Cold war Austria however envisioned herself as a neutral island of the blessed between and separate from both superpower blocs. Now with her membership in the European Union secured Austria is reconstructing her painful historical memory and national identity. In 1996 she celebrates her 1000-year anniversary. In this volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies Franz Mathis and Brigitte Mazohl-Wallnig argue that regional identities in Austria have deeper historical roots than the many artificial and ineffective attempts to construct a national identity. Heidemarie Uhl Anton Pelinka and Brigitte Bailer discuss the post-World War II construction of the victim mythology. Robert Herzstein analyses the crucial impact of the 1986 Waldheim election imploding Austria's comforting historical memory as a nation of victims. Wolfram Kaiser shows Austria's difficult adjustments to the European Union and the larger challenges of constructing a new European identity. Chad Berry's analysis of American World War II memory establishes a useful counterpoint to construction of historical memory in a different national context. A special forum on Austrian intelligence studies presents a fascinating reconstruction by Timothy Naftali of the investigation by Anglo-American counterintelligence into the retreat of Hitler's troops into the Alps during World War II. Rudiger Overmans' research note presents statistics on lower death rates of Austrian soldiers in the German army. Review essays by Gunther Kronenbitter and Gunter Bischof book reviews and a 1995 survey of Austrian politics round out the volume. Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity will be of intense interest to foreign policy analysts historians and scholars concerned with the unique elements of identity and nationality in Central European politics.

GBP 130.00
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Guide to Modern Physics Using Mathematica for Calculations and Visualizations

Guide to Modern Physics Using Mathematica for Calculations and Visualizations

This is a how to guide for making beginning calculations in modern physics. The academic level is second year college physical science and engineering students. The calculations are performed in Mathematica and stress graphical visualization units and numerical answers. The techniques show the student how to learn the physics without being hung up on the math. There is a continuing movement to introduce more advanced computational methods into lower-level physics courses. Mathematica is a unique tool in that code is written as human readable much like one writes a traditional equation on the board. Key Features: Concise summary of the physics concepts. Over 300 worked examples in Mathematica. Tutorial to allow a beginner to produce fast results. The companion code for this book can be found here: https://physics. bu. edu/~rohlf/code. html James Rohlf is a Professor at Boston University. As a graduate student he worked on the first experiment to trigger on hadron jets with a calorimeter Fermilab E260. His thesis (G. C. Fox advisor C. Barnes R. P. Feynman R. Gomez) used the model of Field and Feynman to compare observed jets from hadron collisions to that from electron-positron collisions and made detailed acceptance corrections to arrive at first the measurement of quark-quark scattering cross sections. His thesis is published in Nuclear Physics B171 (1980) 1. At the Cornell Electron Storage Rings he worked on the discovery of the Upsilon (4S) resonance and using novel event shape variables developed by Stephen Wolfram and his thesis advisor Geoffrey Fox. He performed particle identification of kaons and charmed mesons to establish the quark decay sequence b –> c. At CERN he worked on the discovery of the W and Z bosons and measurement of their properties. Presently he is working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which discovered the Higgs boson and is searching for new phenomena beyond the standard model. | Guide to Modern Physics Using Mathematica for Calculations and Visualizations

GBP 42.99
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