Babies are not born talking, they learn language, startingimmediately from birth. How does this process take place? When dochildren master the skills needed for using language successfully?What stages do they go through as they learn to understand andtalk? Do the languages they learn affect the way they think? Thisnew edition of Eve Clark's highly successful textbook focuses onchildren's acquisition of a first language, the stages ofdevelopment they go through, and how they use language as theylearn. It reports on recent findings in each area covered, includesa completely new chapter on the acquisition of two languages andshows how speech to children differs by social class. Skilfullyintegrating actual data with coverage of current theories anddebates, it is an essential guide to studying language acquisitionfor those working in linguistics, developmental psychology andcognitive science.

In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller,award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells theharrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, anordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to riskeverything to escape the powerful and treacherous Cali crimesyndicate. Colombia in the 1990s is a country in chaos, as a weak governmentbattles guerrilla movements and narco-traffickers, including thenotorious Pablo Escobar and his rivals in the Cali cartel. EnterJorge Salcedo, a part-time soldier, a gifted engineer, a respectedbusinessman and family man—and a man who despises Pablo Escobar forpatriotic and deeply personal reasons. He is introduced to thegodfathers of the Cali cartel, who are at war with Escobar anddesperately want their foe dead. With mixed feelings, Jorge agreesto help them. Once inside, Jorge rises to become head of security for MiguelRodríguez Orejuela, principal godfather of the $7-billion-a-yearCali drug cartel. Jorge tries

The Z notation is a language for expressing mathematicalspecifications of computing systems. By providing a formalsemantics for Z, this book justifies the claim that Z is a precisespecification language, and provides a standard framework forunderstanding Z specifications. Z is compared with other methodssuch as VDM and CLEAR, and in the final chapter, a number ofstudies in Z style are presented to show that Z can be used in awide variety of specification tasks. This book will appeal to thosewho wish to deepen their understanding of the mathematicalbackground of the Z method, those who want a concise definition ofthe language, and those interested in the design of specificationlanguages.

In this deluxe commemorative edition, LIFE's editors focus onthe publication's achievements more tightly than they ever havebefore: This is truly the best of everything LIFE has accomplished.In these pages are the best war photos ever taken for LIFE; thebest photo essays ever to grace our pages (including the works ofCapa and Parks and Smith); the loveliest pictures from Hollywood(in fact, the best pictures of Marilyn Monroe ever taken by such asHalsmann, Eisenstaedt and her dear friend Milton Greene), the bestsports pictures, the funniest pictures we ever ran. The bestpictures from the space race, and the most significant pictures tothe human race, including Lennart Nilsson's "Life BeforeBirth." This is a premium volume of LIFE, and beyond its 200-plus pages,which include a review of every LIFE cover ever published, thereis, included here, the ultimate premium: The first-ever LIFE issue,with the Margaret Bourke-White photograph of the Fort Peck Dam onthe cover, reprinted in its entirety, at actu

Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism,language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of theIndian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar tothe Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson shedsnew light on the roles of slavery, emancipation, oceanic travel,Christian missions, and colonial linguistics in the making ofMalagasy-language literacy in the islands of the western IndianOcean. He shows how enslaved and free Malagasy together withcertain European colonists and missionaries promoted the Malagasylanguage, literacy projects and letter writing in the multilingualcolonial societies of the region between the seventeenth andmid-nineteenth centuries. Addressing current debates in the historyof Africa and the African diaspora, slavery, abolition,creolization and the making of modern African literatures, the bookcrosses thematic as well as geo-imperial boundaries and bringsfresh perspectives to Indian Ocean history.

In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines theidea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries. Analysing texts drawn from economics,philosophy, law, medicine as well as from literature, McDonaghhighlights the manifold ways in which child murder echoes andreverberates in a variety of cultural debates and social practices.She places literary works within social, political and culturalcontexts, including debates on luxury, penal reform campaigns,slavery, the treatment of the poor, and birth control. She traces atrajectory from Swift's A Modest Proposal through to the debates onthe New Woman at the turn of the twentieth century by way of Burke,Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, George Egerton, andThomas Hardy, among others. McDonagh demonstrates the hauntingpersistence of the notion of child murder within British culture ina volume that will be of interest to cultural and literary scholarsalike.

Based on Bodynamic Analysis, a body-oriented psychologydeveloped in Denmark by the authors and their colleagues, BodyEncyclopedia describes the developmental sequence in whichpsychological and emotional elements are linked to specificmuscles. The book shows how certain responses to events in ourlives end up bound and connected with our movement patterns.Through extensive research, Marcher, Fich, and several others havemapped out the psychological functions of 154 muscles and relatedtissues. Featuring more than 200 detailed illustrations, BodyEncyclopedia opens with an introduction to the history anddevelopment of Bodynamic Analysis. The core of the book presents ade*ion of each muscle, including movement positions, age levelwhen the muscle is activated, and a summary of the psychologicalthemes associated with each muscle. Basic instructions are providedfor bodymapping , a hands-on procedure that involvespalpating and registering muscle response. Vivid case studiesdemonstrate how to apply the informatio

In this work the authors present a general theory ofbureaucracy and use it to explain behaviour in large organizationsand to explain what determines efficiency in both governments andbusiness corporations. The theory uses the methods of standardneoclassical economic theory. It relies on two central principles:that members of an organization trade with one another and thatthey compete with one another. Authority, which is the basis forconventional theories of bureaucracy, is given a role, despitereliance on the idea of trade between bureaucracies. It is argued,however, that bureaucracies cannot operate efficiently on the basisof authority alone. Exchange between bureaucrats is hamperedbecause promises are not enforceable. So trust and loyalty betweenmembers of bureaucratic networks play an important part. Theauthors find that vertical networks promote efficiency whilehorizontal ones impede it.

This textbook aims to provide students with a stimulatingalternative to the textbooks currently available by placing thediscipline within the context of the social world and encouragingthem to question some of the assumptions and values underlying muchcurrent research. A comprehensive survey of the discipline isprovided, framed within a lifespan approach, and emphasisingsocial-cultural factors such as gender, ethnicity andsocial-economic status. All major topics are covered, includinghealth behaviours, health promotion, coping strategies, stress,biomedical and biopsychosocial models of health and illness,chronic illnesses, psychoneuroimmunology, disability, pain, andpatient-provider communication. Each topic is situated within itssocial and cultural context and constantly linked back toreal-world experience. Chapters include valuable features such asresearch updates, learning objectives and recommended readings.This book will be an invaluable resource for students of healthpsychology across a range of

Executive teams are a key ingredient of today's businessworld--from the charismatic CEO who relies on the operationalexpertise of a COO, to family businesses which trust in personalbonds to achieve professional results. This study examines duo andtrio executive teams in practice to shed light on thepersonalities, relationships, and organizational principlescharacterizing the top echelons of corporate power, frominternational financial giants to creative industries. The bookanswers critical questions regarding how companies work and tackleissues of governance and accountability.

《南来的挑战》是大众报业集团（大众日报社）社长梁国典从事新闻工作30年来的作品选集，精选了作者撰写的通讯和论文的代表作品。作者从记者干起，全身心投入新闻工作，紧跟时代发展潮流，采写和组织策划了孔繁森、李登海、朱彦夫、王乐义等重大典型人物报道，推出了如莱芜市乡镇简政放权、莱西市村级组织建设、文登农村精神文明建设、荣成市实践“三个代表”的经验以及海尔经验、“南巡第三春的汇报系列述评”等等重大经验性报道，挖掘重大典型、新闻事件、英模人物身上的时代价值，捕捉新闻背后的丰盈内涵，多篇作品获得中国新闻奖。实践证明，这些通讯报道的典型，经住了时间的检验，到现在仍具有典型意义，是做好新时期典型宣传的生动教材。作者走上管理岗位后，注重加强对新闻实践的总结提升，撰写了大量业务论文，内容涉及采编业

There are a million stories in the wicked city, and NewYork: An Illustrated History contains hundreds of them. Fromits 17th-century beginnings as a small Dutch colony on the far edgeof an empire to its late-20th-century status as one of the world'sgreatest cities, New York has been home to millions of fascinatingpeople. Take, for example, Edward Hyde, royal governor of New Yorkfrom 1702 to 1708. Hyde, cousin of Queen Anne, was heartilydisliked by the colonists--in part because he was reputed to dressin women's clothing ("I represent a woman, and ought in allrespects to resemble her as faithfully as I can," Hyde was reportedto have said). Or Al Smith, son of immigrants, a day laborer, whoworked his way up the political ladder and eventually becameGovernor of New York. Or Rosie Safran, a seamstress who survivedthe horrible fire that claimed 146 of her coworkers at the Triangleshirtwaist factory.

How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conducttowards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational choice, orinstinctual feeling? Joseph Duke Filonowicz takes the reader on anengaging, informative tour of some of the main issues inphilosophical ethics, explaining and defending the ideas of theearly-modern British sentimentalists. These philosophers -Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith - argued that it is ourfeelings, and not our 'reason', which ultimately determine how wejudge what is good or bad, right or wrong, and how we choose to acttowards our fellow human beings. Filonowicz draws on contemporarysociology and evolutionary biology as well as present-day moraltheory to examine and defend the sentimentalist view and tochallenge the rationalistic character of contemporary ethics. Hisbook will appeal to readers interested in both history ofphilosophy and current ethical debates.

In this 1996 cultural history which considers thetransformation of south Indian institutions under British colonialrule in the nineteenth century, Pamela Price focuses on the twoformer 'little kingdoms' of Ramnad and Sivaganga which came undercolonial governance as revenue estates. She demonstrates howrivalries among the royal families and major zamindari temples, andthe disintegration of indigenous institutions of rule, contributedto the development of nationalism and identity amongst the peopleof southern Tamil country. The author also shows how religioussymbols and practices going back to the seventeenth century werereformulated and acquired a new significance in the colonialcontext. Arguing for a reappraisal of the relationship of Hinduismto politics, Price finds that these symbols and practices continueto inform popular expectation of political leadership today.

“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.” That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-manneredpassenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start ofone of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of Americantrue crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, thenparachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and intooblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend andobsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy tosuicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delvesinto this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamouscase. Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promisingsuspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trainedparatrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of adecades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining afirst-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with aheartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself,f

The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences:revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Staufferexplores the changing place of anger in the literature and cultureof the period, as English men and women rethought theirrelationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the FrenchRevolution. Drawing on diverse fields and discourses such asaesthetics, politics, medicine and the law and tracing theclassical legacy the Romantics inherited, Stauffer charts theperiod's struggle to define the relationship of anger to justiceand the creative self. In their poetry and prose, Romantic authorsincluding Blake, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley and Byron negotiate themeanings of indignation and rage amidst a clamourous debate overthe place of anger in art and in civil society. This innovativebook has much to contribute to the understanding of Romanticliterature and the cultural history of the emotions.

This book presents a complete account of the remarkable lifeand career of Harriet Smithson Berlioz. Peter Raby's success inthis book is to bring fully and sympathetically to life thevulnerable woman and the working actress who is so generallysubmerged beneath the myth that was created about her. At the sametime he provides a continually fascinating commentary on thetheatrical and cultural history of her time: on touring troupes inIreland; on the late Georgian theatre in London; on the differentacting styles and traditions in England and France; on theeconomics of the theatre and the composition of the audiences; onthe intellectual background to Shakespeare's belated acceptance inFrance; on French translations of Shakespeare and contemporaryFrench critical essays and reviews; on the leading figures whoframe Harriet's story - actors, painters, writers, and musicians(most notably, of course, Berlioz himself). Holding all together isthe complex figure of Harriet - a talented actress, and who for abrief but