This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics. It explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to morphology, syntax, and phonology. The third edition is fully revised and updated to include the considerable developments in Cognitive Linguistics since 1987. It covers recent research on polysemy, mea...

THE CAVES, the sequel to GRUNT AIR, begins in Washington, where a radio intercept officer decodes a classified message from the head of the North Vietnam office that controls the captured American and Allied Prisoners of War. The message instructed the camp commanders in Laos to be prepared to execute the POWs on command. This sets the massive military machine into action to find a way to save the POWs. Due to very limited time and internal Pentagon turf wars, and the redeployment of US Fo...

The Christmas Tree AdventureBy: John R. TaylorChristopher once believed in the magic of the Christmas season, but as he gets older, the magic begins to fade. One night while lying beneath the tree and wondering if he’s too old to make Christmas wishes, Christopher awakes in Christmas Tree Kingdom, a world of talking snowmen, wizards, and magic. Christopher soon finds himself tasked with saving the Angel who rules over Christmas Tree Kingdom from an evil wizard and his army....

Restore Your Health and Rejuvenate Your LifePathogens and toxins found in our environment and the foods we eat can cause myriad health problems including digestive disorders, yeast infections, allergies, urinary tract infections, dental problems and some cancers. Probiotics-"friendly" bacteria-are the cornerstone of any successful health program because they restore a healthy balance between friendly and "bad" bacteria in the intestinal tract, a balance that is critical for the heal...

JOSEPH R. STROMBERG is a historian whose research is both intense and wide. He tells it like it was. At the same time, he gives us a broad historical sense of what the history means for our own times. And not in any trendy or superficial way.John Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia, is arguably the most brilliant political thinker in the American experience. Writing in the earliest decades of the U.S. government, he clearly defined the Constitutional distortions and economic chican...

Biography of the Calvinist theologian. According to Wikipedia: "John Knox (c. 1510 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination. ...He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland, Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in...

On publication in 2009 John Hattie’s Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to improve children’s learning. Not what was fashionable, not what political and educational vested interests wanted to champion, but what actually produced the best results in terms of improving learning and educational outcomes. It became an instant bestseller and was described by the TES as revealing education’s ‘holy grail’.Now in t...

Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the spatial distribution of General Practitioners (GPs) via the Designated Area Allowance (DAA) which was introduced in England amid controversy in 1966. It analyses the effectiveness of the DAA and presents the results of a survey conducted among general practitioners in England, covering the patterns of geographical mobility among GPs, the relationship between choice of practice area and other connections with the locality. It also dis...

Based on authors’ experiences in working in the NHS and in teaching medical students, nurses, social science undergraduates and trainees in community medicine, Health and Health Services (originally published in 1984) is an introductory text on health care policies.Since its introduction in 1948, the National Health Service had frequently been the focus of intense scrutiny, debate, conflict and passion—and perhaps never more so than in the 1980s. Health and Health Serv...

While traditional finance focuses on the tools used to optimize return and minimize risk, this book shows how psychology can explain our decisions more than financial theory. Analyzing how investors behave in the real world, this is the first book of its kind to delve into the ways biases influence investment behavior, and how overcoming these biases can increase financial success.Now in its seventh edition, this classic text features:An easy-to-understand s...

Case Study Research in the Digital Age is an in-depth exploration of the case study method as applied to social media, algorithms, digital networks, artificial intelligence, and online life.By applying and adapting case study theory to digital phenomena, Case Study Research in the Digital Age argues for a fundamental change to the unit of analysis in case study research: the entity. It uses this change as a jumping off point for an overview of case study work as a...

John R Commons is one of the most significnat figures in the development of American economics. One of the founders of the institutional school, Commons developed theories which continue to influnece the evolution of capitalsim and of instituitional change. These volumes collect for the first time, his major essays and articles.