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Voyages of Delusion
The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
Häftad, 2003
166 kr
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Voyages of Delusion in the Age of Reason: Williams’s book charts the 18th-century’s perilous and often fatal attempts to discover a passage through the Arctic to the Pacific. An astounding work of the history of arctic exploration.Glyn Williams’s Prize of All the Oceans was reviewed by Patrick …
Prize of All the Oceans
Häftad, 2008
179 kr
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The startling history of Anson’s voyage round the world in 1740. ‘A quite remarkably erudite and deeply informed book’ Patrick O’Brian, Daily TelegraphAnson’s voyage of 1740-44 holds a unique and terrible place in British naval history. The misadventures of this first attempt by Royal Navy ships to …
Arctic Labyrinth
The Quest for the Northwest Passage
E-bok, 2009
108 kr
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For centuries British navigators dreamt of finding the Northwest Passage - the route over the top of North America that would open up the fabulous wealth of Asia to British merchants. We know now that, while several such passages exist, during the period of the search by sailing vessels they were …
Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Av Glyn Williams, Catherine J. Morris
Inbunden, 2000
1091 kr
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Great South Sea
English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750
Häftad, 1998
544 kr
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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of …
Naturalists at Sea
Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
Häftad, 2015
214 kr
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Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown PacificOn the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by …
Social Theory and Language
The Construction of Meaning
Inbunden, 2020
2506 kr
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This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.//The book posits that theory conditions how objects …
Social Theory and Language
The Construction of Meaning
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.//The book posits that theory conditions how objects …
French Discourse Analysis
The Method of Post-Structuralism
Inbunden, 1999
2581 kr
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For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in English of the principles and theories of French discourse analysis.
Geographies of Developing Areas
The Global South in a Changing World
Av Glyn Williams, Paula Meth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
3058 kr
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Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to …
Geographies of Developing Areas
The Global South in a Changing World
Av Glyn Williams, Paula Meth m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
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1344 kr
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Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to …
Sociolinguistics
A Sociological Critique
E-bok, 2018
421 kr
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Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to …
Sociolinguistics
A Sociological Critique
E-bok, 2018
424 kr
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Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to …
Seeing the State
Governance and Governmentality in India
Av Stuart Corbridge, Glyn Williams m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
634 kr
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Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by a series of encounters that are staged at the …
Social Theory and Language
The Construction of Meaning
E-bok, 2020
813 kr
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This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.// The book posits that theory conditions how objects …
Social Theory and Language
The Construction of Meaning
E-bok, 2020
831 kr
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This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.// The book posits that theory conditions how objects …
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
E-bok, 2023
554 kr
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Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (1978) draws together recent research specifically on Wales, to overcome the overly-English takes on the ‘social structure of modern Britain’. A pattern of relative social deprivation is outlined, and such symptoms of this deprivation as second …
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
E-bok, 2023
554 kr
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Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (1978) draws together recent research specifically on Wales, to overcome the overly-English takes on the ‘social structure of modern Britain’. A pattern of relative social deprivation is outlined, and such symptoms of this deprivation as second …
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
Inbunden, 2023
1830 kr
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Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (1978) draws together recent research specifically on Wales, to overcome the overly-English takes on the ‘social structure of modern Britain’. A pattern of relative social deprivation is outlined, and such symptoms of this deprivation as second home …
Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
Häftad, 2024
474 kr
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Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (1978) draws together recent research specifically on Wales, to overcome the overly-English takes on the ‘social structure of modern Britain’. A pattern of relative social deprivation is outlined, and such symptoms of this deprivation as second home …
Geographies of Developing Areas
The Global South in a Changing World
Av Glyn Williams, Paula Meth m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1593 kr
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Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to …
Geographies of Developing Areas
The Global South in a Changing World
Av Glyn Williams, Paula Meth m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1559 kr
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Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to …
French Discourse Analysis
The Method of Post-Structuralism
Häftad, 2014
1048 kr
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For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in English of the principles and theories of French discourse analysis.
Sociolinguistics
A Sociological Critique
Inbunden, 2018
1232 kr
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Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to …
Sociolinguistics
A Sociological Critique
Häftad, 2020
372 kr
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Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to …
Pacific Exploration
Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle
Av Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
252 kr
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Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour , commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of …
Pacific Exploration
Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle
Av Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
247 kr
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Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour , commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of …
The Seven Deadly Sins of Advertising and How To Avoid Them: Small Business Marketing
Häftad
196 kr
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Working The Net: A Practical Guide to Business Networking
Av Glyn Williams, Simon Bozeat
Häftad
225 kr
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