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  • Goldsmith, John A.: The Handbook of Phonological Theory
  • History of Food
    by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, Anthea Bell
    ISBN 0631194975 (0-631-19497-5)
    Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

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    This wide-ranging history covers the history of food from the earliest, vegetarian members of the human race to the present day. The book explores the relationship between people and diet, and between food and social mores. The book covers a vast variety of foodstuffs - honey, cereals, meat, coffee, chocolate, tea, bread, oil, cake, fungi, fish - and shows how their consumption has evolved down the ages. It concludes with an investigation of scientific issues, including methods of food preservation, dietics and he importance of vitamins. [via]

  • Filoramo, Giovanni: History of Gnosticism
    History of Gnosticism
    by Giovanni Filoramo, Anthony Alcock
    ISBN 0631187073 (0-631-18707-3)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • Le Glay, Marcel: A History of Rome
    A History of Rome
    by Marcel Le Glay, Jean-Louis Voisin, Yann Le Bohec, Antonia Nevill
    ISBN 0631194584 (0-631-19458-4)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • Magraw, Roger: A History of the French Working Class: The Age of Artisan Revolution, 1815-1871/Workers and the Bourgeois Republic/1871-1939
  • Marwick, Arthur: History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999: Circumstances, Events, and Outcomes
  • Mitterauer, Michael: A History of Youth
  • Lepore, Ernest: Holism: A Shopper's Guide
    Holism: A Shopper's Guide
    by Ernest Lepore, Jerry Fodor
    ISBN 0631181938 (0-631-18193-8)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • McGrath, Alister E.: The Intellectual Origins of European Reformation
  • Introduction to Government and Binding Theory
    by Liliane M.M. Haegeman
    ISBN 0631190678 (0-631-19067-8)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    Since its first publication in 1991 Liliane Haegeman's Introduction to Government and Binding Theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. This new edition has been extensively updated throughout. Major structural changes include new chapters on Functional Heads and Head Movement and on Relativized Minimality. Discussions of a number of topics missing from or not paid due attention in the first edition have been integrated or expanded, for example: the structure of small clauses (in chaprer 2), chain formation (in chapter 6), and reconstruction, multiple movement, wh-absorption, Full Interpretation, and expletive replacement (in chapter 9). The copious exercises have been revised to increase potential for creativty and flexibility of approach. New exericases highlight further controversial issues.

    In short, this book offers a complete, updated introduction to the current state of Government and Binding Theory, suitable for readers with some basic knowledge of generative linguistics. [via]

  • Clark, John: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
    An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
    by John Clark, Colin Yallop, Janet Fletcher
    ISBN 0631194525 (0-631-19452-5)
    Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited

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  • Introduction to Social Psychology: A European Perspective
    by Wolfgang Stroebe, Miles Hewstone, Geoffrey M. Stephenson, G. M. Stephenson
    ISBN 0631185852 (0-631-18585-2)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    This fully revised and updated edition of the hugely successful Introduction to Social Psychology offers a different, deeper perspective to standard Americal texts, one more suited to the European market, and with the added strength that every chapter is written by European experts. [via]

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  • L.S.R. Byrne and E.L. Churchill's a Comprehensive French Grammar
    by Glanville Price
    ISBN 0631181652 (0-631-18165-2)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    `Byrne and Churchill' has been the standard textbook of French grammar since its first publication in 1950, and is still unrivalled. This fourth edition has been completely revised, improved and in places rewritten by Glanville Price, one of Britain's most distinguished French-language scholars.


    • New edition of the market-leading French grammar.
    • Completely revised and updated and, in parts, rewritten.
    • Contains clear explanations and numerous examples.
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  • Chitham, Edward: A Life of Anne Bronte
    A Life of Anne Bronte
    by Edward Chitham
    ISBN 0631189440 (0-631-18944-0)
    Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited

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  • Patey, Douglas Lane: The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography
  • A Life of John Calvin: A Study in Shaping of Western Culture
    by Alister E. McGrath
    ISBN 0631189475 (0-631-18947-5)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    The first biography of John Calvin since 1975 and the only life of the great reformer to analyse his impact on subsequent generations of theologians, politicians, economists and philosophers. This biography is theologically unbiased and is written as much for historians and general readers as for those interested in Calvin the Church reformer. [via]

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  • Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory
    by Victoria Fromkin
    ISBN 0631197117 (0-631-19711-7)
    Softcover, Polity Pr

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    Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory is a textbook, written for introductory courses in linguistic theory for undergraduate linguistics majors and first-year graduate students, by twelve major figures in the field, each bringing their expertise to one of the core areas of the field - morphology, syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, and language acquisition. In each section the book is concerned with discussing the underlying principles common to all languages, showing how these are revealed in language acquisition and in the specific grammars of the world's languages. [via]

  • Morris, Pam: Literature and Feminism: An Introduction
  • Pugh, Martin: The Making of Modern British Politics 1867-1939
  • Miller, Daniel: Material Culture and Mass Consumption
  • The Mongols
    by David Morgan
    ISBN 0631175636 (0-631-17563-6)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    This up-to-date chronicle benefits from new discoveries and a broad range of source material. David Morgan explains how the vast Mongolian Empire was organized and governed, examing the religious and policital character of the steppe nomadic society. [via]

  • Goode, Erich: Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance
  • Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader
    by David Theo Goldberg
    ISBN 0631189122 (0-631-18912-2)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of "multiculturalism". [via]

  • Der Derian, James: On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement
  • MacFarlane, Alan: Origins English Individual
    Origins English Individual
    by Alan MacFarlane
    ISBN 0631193103 (0-631-19310-3)
    Hardcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • McIntosh, Roderick James: The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold
  • Philosophical Aesthetics: An Introduction
    by Oswald Hanfling
    ISBN 0631180354 (0-631-18035-4)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    This volume contains surveys of the main issues in philosophical aesthetics, as discussed by thinkers from ancient Greece to modern times. It is written by members of the Open University and the intention throughout is to make the issues intelligible and interesting to as wide an audience as possible, including those readers with a general interest in the arts as well as more advanced students.
    The volume begins with questions about the nature of art and beauty. Are there any limitations to what may count as a work of art? Are imitations and forgeries really less valuable than original works? This is followed by discussions of aesthetic experience, truth and the 'imitation of nature' in works of art. In later chapters the emphasis is on the value and evaluation of art. Should art exist for the good of society? What justification is there for censorship in the case of pornography? The final chapters deal with Marxist theories of art, and with structuralist and post-structuralist views in recent continental writings. [via]

  • Phonology in Generative Grammar
    by Michael Kenstowicz
    ISBN 0631195130 (0-631-19513-0)
    Softcover, Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated

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    This book aims to be a comprehensive and up to date introduction to phonological theory and analysis. Presupposing only minimal background in linguistics, this book introduces the basic concepts and principles of phonological analysis and then systematically develops the major innovations in the generative model since Chomsky and Halle's "Sound Patterns of English" (1968), with emphasis on the past ten years. Careful study of the text should enable the student to read the current scholarly literature with critical understanding and some perspective. Some features of the book include a set of exercises reinforcing the basic concepts and principles, illustrations from a variety of languages based on published and unpublished materials, a survey of all the major lines of research in phonological theory and an extensive biography. [via]

  • Rousselle, Aline: Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity
    Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity
    by Aline Rousselle, Felicia Pheasant
    ISBN 0631192085 (0-631-19208-5)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • Shusterman, Richard: Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art
  • Prejudice: Its Social Psychology
    by Rupert Brown
    ISBN 0631183159 (0-631-18315-9)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    This book tackles prejudice from a social psychological perspective, and contributes to both its understanding and its reduction. Readers are introduced to the major theoretical and empirical achievements in the field, and classic and contemporary research is presented and illustrated. The book includes many examples from contemporary life and different kinds of prejudice. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the main points together with suggestions for further reading. [via]

  • Tilley, Christopher: Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics, and Post-Structuralism
  • Wu, Duncan: Romanticism: A Critical Reader
  • Southern, R.W.: Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe: Foundations
  • Benjamin, Marina: Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945
  • Hawkins, Roger: Second Language Syntax: A Generative Introduction
  • Semantics in Generative Grammar
    by Angelika Kratzer, Irene Heim
    ISBN 0631197133 (0-631-19713-3)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to formal semantics. [via]

  • Beach, David: The Shona and Their Neighbours
  • Social Development
    by H. Rudolph Schaffer
    ISBN 0631185747 (0-631-18574-7)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    This textbook provides a fully up-to-date account of our knowledge of children's social development. It is addressed to students of psychology and other social sciences with no or only limited knowledge of child development, and covers an age up to and including adolescence. The content is organised according to themes, but these themes follow an approximated developmental progression. [via]

  • Diani, Mario: Social Movements: An Introduction
    Social Movements: An Introduction
    by Mario Diani, Donatella Della Porta
    ISBN 0631192131 (0-631-19213-1)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • Oakes, Penelope J.: The Social Psychology of Stereotyping and Group Life
    The Social Psychology of Stereotyping and Group Life
    by Penelope J. Oakes, Russell Spears, S. Alexander Haslam, Namoi Ellemers
    ISBN 0631197737 (0-631-19773-7)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • The Sounds of the World's Languages
    by Peter Ladefoged, Ian Maddieson
    ISBN 0631198156 (0-631-19815-6)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investigated at first hand by the authors. [via]

  • Lynch, John: Spain 1516-1598: From Nation State to World Empire
  • Horton, Mark: The Swahili : The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society
  • Feyerabend, Paul K.: Three Dialogues on Knowledge
    Three Dialogues on Knowledge
    by Paul K. Feyerabend
    ISBN 0631179186 (0-631-17918-6)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • Three Guineas
    by Virginia Woolf
    ISBN 0631177248 (0-631-17724-8)
    Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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    This prestigious new edition of the most controversial of Woolf's works includes an illuminating introduction and full annotations by the editor. [via]

  • Drake, Michael: Time, Family and Community: Perspectives on Family and Community History
  • Chambers, David: Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630
    Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630
    by David Chambers, Brian Pullan
    ISBN 0631183035 (0-631-18303-5)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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  • Kuryluk, Ewa: Veronica and Her Cloth: History, Symbolism, and Structure of a True Image
  • Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon
    by Jean Aitchison
    ISBN 0631189211 (0-631-18921-1)
    Softcover, Blackwell Pub

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    Words in the Mind deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them, and find the ones they want. It discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or mental lexicon, with particular reference to the spoken language of native English speakers.


    • Discusses the structure and content of the human word-store, or 'mental lexicon'.
    • Features a highly informative and accessible account of a central area of research.
    • Incorporates new research on the mental lexicon.
    • Written by a prominent researcher of the mental lexicon, language change, and the language of the media.
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  • Lowry, M.J.C.: World of Aldus Manutius: Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice