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Lancia Delta Integrale
Häftad, 2021
288 kr
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Now in paperback! This book records the complete history of the Lancia Delta integrale – one of the best known and most successful rally cars of all time. Includes the background and history of the model, the complete story of the road cars, and covers all the special editions of the integrale – a …
Responsible Gambling
Primary Stakeholder Perspectives
Inbunden, 2019
1393 kr
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"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms. There is an absence of agreement about the definition of responsible gambling among these parties, and …
Responsible Gambling
Primary Stakeholder Perspectives
Av Peter Collins, Davis Fong m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
755 kr
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"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms. There is an absence of agreement about the definition of responsible gambling among these parties, and …
Responsible Gambling
Primary Stakeholder Perspectives
Av Peter Collins, Davis Fong m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
755 kr
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"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms. There is an absence of agreement about the definition of responsible gambling among these parties, and …
Language Universals and Variation
Av Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the …
Language Universals and Variation
Av Mengistu Amberber, Peter Collins
E-bok, 2002
1204 kr
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Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal theoretical perspective, including the …
Religion, Identity and Change
Perspectives on Global Transformations
Av Simon Coleman, Simon Coleman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2840 kr
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Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New …
Reading Religion in Text and Context
Reflections of Faith and Practice in Religious Materials
Av Peter Collins, Elisabeth Arweck
Inbunden, 2006
2513 kr
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To what extent is religion inherently textual? What might the term 'textual' mean in relation to religious faith and practice? These are the two key questions addressed by the eleven thought-provoking essays collected in this volume. Accounts of the content and structure of sacred texts are …
Concrete
The Vision of a New Architecture, Second Edition
Häftad, 2004
403 kr
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Concrete, Peter Collins's first book, is an avowedly polemical and controversial combination of two studies: the origins and evolution of reinforced concrete and the life and work of the seminal French architect, Auguste Perret.
Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950
E-bok, 1998
353 kr
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Collins explains what Revivalism, Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Functionalism meant to those who practised them, examining the impact that social forces and the other arts and sciences had on architectural styles while recognizing the tectonic continuities that underlie the seeming ruptures between …
Concrete
The Vision of a New Architecture
E-bok, 2004
397 kr
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From the Foreword by Kenneth Frampton: "Concrete remains a valuable historical text that in many respects has never been given its due. It is an unmatched pioneering history of the development of reinforced concrete up to 1914. It records and analyses the densely articulated, if provincial, English …
Locating the Field
Space, Place and Context in Anthropology
Av Peter Collins, Simon Coleman
E-bok, 2020
695 kr
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Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork. The nature of ''locality'' itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it must …
Locating the Field
Space, Place and Context in Anthropology
Av Peter Collins, Simon Coleman
E-bok, 2020
710 kr
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Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork. The nature of ''locality'' itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it must …
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
Into the Third Millennium
Inbunden, 2026
1358 kr
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The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive …
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage
Into the Third Millennium
Häftad, 2026
519 kr
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The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive …
Reading Religion in Text and Context
Reflections of Faith and Practice in Religious Materials
Av Peter Collins, Elisabeth Arweck
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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To what extent is religion inherently textual? What might the term 'textual' mean in relation to religious faith and practice? These are the two key questions addressed by the eleven thought-provoking essays collected in this volume. Accounts of the content and structure of sacred texts are …
The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science since 1960
Inbunden, 2015
1586 kr
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The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly marginalised by postwar developments and the reforms of civil science in the 1960s, the Society was at risk of resting on its laurels. Instead, it found ways …
The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science since 1960
Häftad, 2019
667 kr
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The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly marginalised by postwar developments and the reforms of civil science in the 1960s, the Society was at risk of resting on its laurels. Instead, it found ways …
English Grammar
An Introduction
Av Peter Collins, Carmella Hollo
Häftad, 2016
482 kr
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This core textbook helps readers get to grips with the fundamentals of English grammar so that they can critically engage with a wide variety of texts. Combining contemporary linguistic approaches with the familiar terminology of traditional grammar, this lively book offers a hands-on introduction …
English Grammar
An Introduction
Av Peter Collins, Carmella Hollo
E-bok, 2017
518 kr
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This core textbook helps readers get to grips with the fundamentals of English grammar so that they can critically engage with a wide variety of texts. Combining contemporary linguistic approaches with the familiar terminology of traditional grammar, this lively book offers a hands-on introduction …
Religion, Identity and Change
Perspectives on Global Transformations
Av Simon Coleman, Simon Coleman m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New …
Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English
Inbunden, 2015
2585 kr
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First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they …
Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English
Häftad, 2017
667 kr
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First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they …
Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English
E-bok, 2015
785 kr
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First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. …
Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English
E-bok, 2015
785 kr
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First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. …
Religion, Identity and Change
Perspectives on Global Transformations
Av Peter Collins, Simon Coleman
E-bok, 2017
1000 kr
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Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New …
Religion, Identity and Change
Perspectives on Global Transformations
Av Peter Collins, Simon Coleman
E-bok, 2017
1022 kr
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Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New …
Reading Religion in Text and Context
Reflections of Faith and Practice in Religious Materials
Av Peter Collins, Elisabeth Arweck
E-bok, 2017
831 kr
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To what extent is religion inherently textual? What might the term ''textual'' mean in relation to religious faith and practice? These are the two key questions addressed by the eleven thought-provoking essays collected in this volume. Accounts of the content and structure of sacred texts are …
