Johnnie was only the runt of the litter, a little peppermint pig. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his great naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and Theo cheerful, even though it was one of the most difficult years of their lives.
When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who works continuously in the service of others, he endured grueling years of training and is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice.
In State of Wonder, pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond.
Language Acquisition of a Bilingual Child: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
The present study was begun 15 years ago and it will probably continue for many more years to come as it is my hope that this will become a truly longitudinal investigation. It is a developmental study of dual language acquisition by a single individual. And although the specifics of a single case study can never be directly generalized to other populations, what may be extrapolated is the interplay of variables which form the process of language development which we are attempting to understand more fully.
Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose, 2nd Edition
This book describes the ways in which the techniques of linguistic analysis and literary criticism can be combined, and illuminated, through the linguistic study of literary style. It draws on the prose fiction of the last 150 years to demonstrate the approach.
