Are you curious to know what all languages have in common and how they differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their past? Now in its fourth edition, this fascinating book guides beginners through the rich diversity of the world's languages. It presupposes no background in linguistics, and introduces key concepts with the help of problem sets, end-of-chapter exercises and an extensive bibliography. It is illustrated with detailed maps and charts...

Public Management and Governance is the leading text in international public management and governance and an ideal introduction to all aspects of this field. It combines rigorous insight from pre-eminent scholars around the world with supportive, thoughtful, and intuitive structure and pedagogy. This revised and updated fourth edition responds to the significant changes in the external environment, as well as the field itself.

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An accessible, humorous, and highly illustrated guide to how the brain’s structures and functions determine how the mind works, this is essential reading for undergraduate psychology students.

This handbook provides a comprehensive grounding of the history, methods, debates and theories that contribute to the study of human-machine communication.

Designed as a core text for undergraduate students. Politcal Geography employs a novel and accessible structure to guide students through the key Approaches, Concepts, and Futures of Political Geography.Â

In continuous publication since 1994 and now in its sixth edition, Molecular Biotechnology: Principles and Applications of Recombinant DNA has been effective in introducing this complex field to students for more than 25 years. This textbook covers essentially every aspect of the field of molecular biotechnology, which is constantly changing and adapting in light of new advances.

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Since 1984 this book, now in its 7th edition and thoroughly updated, has introduced the crucial interface between our diet and the essentially chemical nature of what we eat and drink. The contributions of the various classes of natural food components, as well as additives and contaminants, to the nutritional value of foods are considered. These include the nutrients required in large amounts like carbohydrates, proteins, fat, minerals and water as well as the less bulky nutrients such as vi...

In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed...

Master the key marketing challenges and see how you can develop meaningful connections with your customers. Principles of Marketing, global edition, 19th edition by Kotler and Armstrong shows you how to create vibrant, interactive communities of consumers in today's fast-changing, increasingly digital and social marketplace. Ideal for students who study marketing courses, this textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles of marketing within an innovative customer-val...

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AP® Macroeconomics courses are challenging. Written specifically for AP® students and teachers by AP® Econ experts Margaret Ray and David Anderson, Krugman’s Macroeconomics for the AP® Course, 4th Edition provides all the support you need to reach the summit and to succeed on the exams. Meticulously revised to mirror the Course Framework, this textbook features 6 Macroeconomics units organized to cover the topics in the same s...