John Edwards
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words—morphology or phonology—and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us—for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong to. In this Very Short Introduction,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The lifestory of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the bloody burning of Protestants, her short marriage to Philip of Spain. This original and deeply researched biography paints a far more detailed portrait of Mary and offers a fresh understanding of her religious...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Made by the Department of Immigration in the mid 1960s to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Tasmanian town of Launceston in the mid 1960s. Legally required acknowledgements for publication: An Australian National Film Board Production. Produced for the Department of Immigration by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit. Copyright - 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's the end of the DC Universe as we know it. The Anti-Life virus has ravaged the Earth, turning its population-and most of its greatest heroes-into mindless, ravening zombies. The Justice League has fallen. The survivors are clinging to life. And in these dark times, only the darkest among the world's metahumans will survive! Led by Deathstroke, the world's greatest assassin, a lethal crew of villains and antiheroes has survived the initial onslaught,...
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