Another look at the tough and tender women of New York City from Candance Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City, Trading Up, and Lipstick Jungle. In One Fifth Avenue, Bushnell tells the intertwined stories of five women at one swanky Manhattan address. One Fifth is The Building - the chicest, the hottest, the one with the best pedigree, the one with all the most interesting people. And within its gorgeous, thick, pre-war walls, fortunes fall and rise in the early days of the new millenium.

Suzanne Romaine’s book has been recognized as the most authoritative introduction to the sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of bilingualism. The new edition has been completely revised to incorporate recent work in this fast developing field. Throughout the book, bilingualism is seen a societal and cognitive phenomenon. Professor Romaine explores various aspects of bilingual behaviour, such as code switching and language mixing...

“Machowicz gives you the tools necessary to ensure that you win in the battle of life.”

 Unleash The Warrior Within by Richard "Mack" Machowicz and I have to say that I recommend the book to anyone that is interested in learning techniques for success and achieving goals.  Many of you probably know Mack as host of the TV show Future Weapons.  If so, you know that Mack is a former Navy Seal.

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and within the request base sequence, and the placement of the request sequence within the larger social interaction.