This reader considers the body of challenging research that has been produced under the auspices of postcolonial theory. It addresses the severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of postcolonial theory that have been raised. The book also makes available some of the "classics" of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly challenge postcolonial theory. The book offers an inter-disciplinary mapping of its field. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests; the "disciplining of knowledge", where the multiple resonances of the word "disciplining" are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored.

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Arnold Publishers

'Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students' provides a completely self contained course in aircraft structures, which includes discussion on the fundamentals of elasticity and aircraft structural analysis, as well as the associated topics of airworthiness and aeroelasticity. Although much of the basic material is timeless, the author has updated the text throughout, including new material on areas that have developed since the last edition - in both educational and technological terms. As well as extensive revisions, the new edition includes a solutions manual for all end of chapter problems to accompany the text. The expansion of aviation makes aircraft structures an increasingly important topic at undergraduate level. Since its original publication in 1972, this book has become the 'bible' for aircraft structures. Extra worked examples and problems. Latest materials in aircraft construction. Airframe loads produced by manoeuvring.

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Third Edition

Engineering & Transportation

Megson, T.H.G.

Transportation

'Applied Linguistics for Language Education' covers those areas of applied language study that are most directly relevant to language teaching, testing, and teacher education. It focuses on the fundamental questions raised for research by the practice of language teaching and research. The reader is thus introduced to the current research climate through consideration of germane controversial issues. If any conclusion about applied linguistic research in the last twenty years is possible, it is that we cannot take anything for granted! Steven McDonough opens with examples of language teaching, teaching materials, and learning a foreign language, which teachers and language learners will recognise, drawing out questions from these which are addressed throughout the rest of the text. Arguments and data from research of all kinds are brought to bear on these and other background issues that are raised, for example: the nature and effects of classroom discourse; the challenges and utility of linguistic theory and linguistic descriptions; what knowing a second language means for proficiency and for processing; nature and nurture in second language learning; how people process language in classrooms and beyond; the role of instruction and the roles of teachers; and measuring achievement. Complex issues are laid out in a clear and accessible style, and many examples are used, mainly, but not exclusively, from English and learning English as a second language. However, the principles apply to learning or teaching any language as a second or foreign language, and 'Applied Linguistics for Language Education' is the most concise overview of current linguistics presently available.

Applied Linguistics in Language Education

Reference

McDonough, Steven

Foreign Language Study & Reference

What is the audience for horror? Why should we want to read books or watch films that make us afraid, or that contain acts of violence or depravity?
 Horror has had an established tradition in both fiction and film. From books such as Frankenstein and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to films such as Se7en and The Blair Witch Project, the genre holds an irresistible appeal for modern audiences. But what is it? Is horror an anti-establishment force and an argument for social revolution? Is it a liberating expose of human nature and a peek at the dark side of the unconscious? Or is it pure evil, designed to corrupt and deprave? Starting from such questions about the nature of horror, this book offers an accessible history of the genre. It approaches its subject thematically, with chapers on horror, religion and identity; 'mad science'; vampires and the undead; on madness and psycho-killers; on forbidden knowledge and books; on narratives of invasion and pestilence; on Satanism and demonic possession; on ghosts and the ghost story; and on body-horror and metamorphoses. Making reference to key Gothic texts of the Romantic period, as well as more recent popular novels and films, the book is a highly readable introduction for both students of literature and film, as well as horror fans.

Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Jones, Darryl

Turning Angel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Proximity data consist of measures of similarity or dissimilarity between members of a set of stimuli, individuals or objects of interest, and occur in many different disciplines, particularly psychology, sociology, and market research. In some instances such data arise from calculations carried out on the usual multivariate data matrix, the elements of which record the values of a number of variables on a number of individuals. In other circumstances, proximity data are collected directly from experiments in which human subjects are asked to make judgements about the similarity or dissimilarity of pairs of stimuli. This text explores a variety of methods for analyzing proximity data, complete with numerous examples and background information.

The Analysis of Proximity Data (Kendall's Library of Statistics)

Science & Math

Everitt, Brian

Mathematics

This illustrated book provides an account of the architectural and topographical history of Calcutta, which in 1990 celebrates the 300th anniversary of its foundation. Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title at The British Library, its illustrations are drawn mainly from the collection of plans, prints and drawings at the India Office Library and 25 are reproduced in colour. A work of reference for historians of India and the architecture of the Raj, it also has much to interest the general reader, print collectors and those who know modern Calcutta. J.P.Losty is curator in charge of prints and drawings at the India Office Library and the author of "The Art of the Book in India", 1982 and "Indian Book Painting", 1986.

Calcutta, city of palaces: A survey of the city in the days of the East India Company, 1690-1858

History

Losty, Jeremiah P

Asia

Where Angels Fear to Tread (Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster S)

Forster, E.M.

Literary

Locational analysis in human geography

Politics & Social Sciences

Peter Haggett

Social Sciences

Fluvial Forms and Processes

David Knighton

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