Current vol. 46 August - October 2014Current is a fully supported extensive reader that pushes students in their fluency and idiomatic understanding across a range of contexts and encourages debate and discussion. Explores the English language; gives a deeper cultural understanding of the institutions and issues affecting the English-speaking world in 2014-15. Regular Features: News 24/7; Culture Uncovered; Up-Close; Reality Check; The Buzz; Evolution English; Flashpoint
This book provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of tour guiding scholarship and research and aims to foster best practice and to stimulate further study and research on tour guiding across a range of disciplines. It explores how tour guiding theory and practice has evolved over time and what factors have contributed to this. The volume consolidates, synthesises and adds to the knowledge base and foreshadows how current and future trends and issues might impact on tour guiding research and practice in the 21st century.
"Greenwood's book is unequalled in its sustained conceptual analysis of what was lost during the historical development of social psychology. It represents a profound theoretical contribution, sympathetic to empirical work, and offers an insightful commentary on the field's current problems." Kurt Danziger, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, York University, Toronto.
British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
This book examines the status and uses of ethnicity in political debate during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that immediately preceded the onset of modern racialist and nationalist thinking. Ranging widely across the political cultures of England, Scotland, Ireland and revolutionary America, it also considers European influences and comparisons as well as engaging historically with current debates over nationalism and identity.
This book takes the reader on an exploration of the structure and evolution of our universe. The basis for our knowledge is the Big Bang theory of the expanding universe. This book then tells the story of our search for the first stars and galaxies using current and planned telescopes.
