Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those entering postgraduate studies and language professionals returning to academic study. The books take an innovative "practice to theory" approach, with a 'back-to-front' structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and issues, through a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns, before finally relating these practical issues to theoretical foundations.
Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times
The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.
Barbarians Against Rome - Rome's Celtic, Germanic, Spanish and Gallic Enemies
This volume details the equipment, weapons, lifestyle and dress of the principal enemies that challenged the expansion of Rome, including the Celts, Gauls and Teutones. Artworks illustrate the variety and diversity of these distinct warrior cultures and groups.
A left-leaning appeal court judge liberates four of the most dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay and the CIA field officers track them back to Pakistan's northwest frontier mountain range. But disaster overtakes them and the four men vanish, to rejoin the dark and mysterious forces trained by Osama bin Laden high in the Hindu Kush. These are men with hatred in their hearts, with hatred for the United States and Great Britain, and they are sworn to hit back at the USA, which imprisoned so many of their high command.
Want to know how your brain measures up? You can go to a psychologist, pay lots of money, take a boring standardized test, and find out what you knew all along; that you are a genius, or you can have fun with this book. You won't be able to get an official score, as there has been no attempt to standardize these tests in the way psychologists might. But then, who cares?
