Language of Inequality

Language of Inequality
Author: Nessa Wolfson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2012-04-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110857324

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

The U. S. Navy Pictorial History of the War of 1812

The U. S. Navy Pictorial History of the War of 1812
Author: Don Philpott
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2012-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442219084

The U.S. Navy Pictorial History of the War of 1812 combines a fresh historical narrative with over 130 dramatic illustrations, many in color, to celebrate this war on its bicentennial. Pictures from the U.S. Navy archives depict historic battles scenes, impressive naval vessels, and important historical figures.

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135960267

The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.

International Trade

International Trade
Author: Jitendralal Borkakoti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349270148

A rigorous and comprehensive text dealing primarily with the determinants of the pattern of trade gains from trade and trade policy. Spanning the old theories (the Ricardian hypothesis, the static and dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model, the neofactor proportions and the neotechnology theories) it also contains the new theories (including various models of intra-industry trade and the dynamic models of endogenous growth and trade). Gains from trade and trade policy issues are comprehensively analysed. The various theories are presented verbally, geometrically and mathematically.