http://englishtips.org/ ru Non-Fiction - Englishtips.org: Learning English Together DataLife Engine http://englishtips.org/1150863337-the-progressive-in-modern-english-a-corpus-based.html http://englishtips.org/1150863337-the-progressive-in-modern-english-a-corpus-based.html The Progressive in Modern English: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization and Related Changes This book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment of the English progressive from Old English to Present-day English, focusing on the crucial phase of its grammaticalization between the 17th and 20th centuries. Linguistics rszyma Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:42:41 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150791554-confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man_by_john_perkins.html http://englishtips.org/1150791554-confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man_by_john_perkins.html John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. REUPLOAD NEEDED Non-Fiction, Audiobooks, Reupload Needed aline Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:40:22 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863333-shakespeare-by-another-name-the-biography-of.html http://englishtips.org/1150863333-shakespeare-by-another-name-the-biography-of.html The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility.  Non-Fiction Kahena Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:22:09 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863331-microeconomics-7th-edkey-benefit-this-book-is.html http://englishtips.org/1150863331-microeconomics-7th-edkey-benefit-this-book-is.html Microeconomics, 7th EdKEY BENEFIT: This book is well known for its coverage of modern topics (Game theory, Economics of Information, and Behavioral Ec KEY BENEFIT: This book is well known for its coverage of modern topics (Game theory, Economics of Information, and Behavioral Economics), clarity of its writing style and graphs, and integrated use of real world examples. Economics and Management plamen Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:48:38 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150811991-journal-of-english-linguistics-march-2009-volume.html http://englishtips.org/1150811991-journal-of-english-linguistics-march-2009-volume.html SAGE publishes more than 500 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. REUPLOAD NEEDED Periodicals, Linguistics, Reupload Needed englishcology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:26:15 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150808267-applied-linguistics.html http://englishtips.org/1150808267-applied-linguistics.html Applied Linguistics Volume 29, Number 4, December 2008 Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real-world problems. The journal is keen to help make connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses. Applied linguistics is viewed not only as the relation between theory and practice, but also as the study of language and language-related problems in specific situations in which people use and learn languages. REUPLOAD NEEDED Periodicals, Linguistics, Reupload Needed takol Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:05:56 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863321-the-sky-in-early-modern-english-literature.html http://englishtips.org/1150863321-the-sky-in-early-modern-english-literature.html The Sky in Early Modern English Literature Astronomy is not just a subject unto itself. We all look at the sky, and it has always been a fertile source of guidance and inspiration in art, music, and literature. This book explores the sky’s appearances in music and art, but focuses most on the sky’s enormous presence in early modern English literature.  Literature Studies Kahena Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:57 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150852996-knives-and-scabbards-medieval-finds-from.html http://englishtips.org/1150852996-knives-and-scabbards-medieval-finds-from.html Knives and Scabbards - Medieval Finds from Excavations in London Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the domestic to the wider social context: Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian burials bear silent witness to this dependence in the many cases where knives are found among the grave-goods. Forged and hafted with great skill, sometimes with elaborately decorated scabbards, knives are of intrinsic fascination, besides being indicators of the popular artistic tastes of the time. Non-Fiction Kahena Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:06:42 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863316-the-childs-conception-of-the-world.html http://englishtips.org/1150863316-the-childs-conception-of-the-world.html The Child's Conception of the World A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. What conceptions of the world does the child naturally form at the different stages of its development? To what extent does the child distinguish the external world from an internal or subjective world and what limits does he or she draw between the self and objective reality? Non-Fiction Kahena Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:27:14 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863311-neoconstructivism-the-new-science-of-cognitive.html http://englishtips.org/1150863311-neoconstructivism-the-new-science-of-cognitive.html Arguments over the developmental origins of human knowledge are ancient.They have also persisted long enough to become a core area of inquiry in cognitive and developmental science. Empirical contributions to these debates, however, appeared only in the last century, when Jean Piaget offered the first viable theory of knowledge acquisition that centered on the great themes discussed by Kant: object, space, time, and causality. The essence of Piaget's theory is constructivism: The building of concepts from simpler perceptual and cognitive precursors, in particular from experience gained through manual behaviors and observation. Science literature Kahena Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:23:19 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863300-options-on-foreign-exchange.html http://englishtips.org/1150863300-options-on-foreign-exchange.html Options on Foreign Exchange A comprehensive guide to the world's largest financial market Foreign exchange is the world's largest financial market and continues to grow at a rapid pace. As economies intertwine and currencies fluctuate there is hardly a corporate entity that doesn't need to use options on foreign exchange to hedge risk or increase returns. Moreover, currency options, both vanilla and exotic, are part of standard toolkit of professional portfolio managers and hedge funds. Economics and Management deception Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:29:23 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863293-a-piaget-primer-how-a-child-thinks.html http://englishtips.org/1150863293-a-piaget-primer-how-a-child-thinks.html Using popular children's literature such as Alice in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh to illustrate key points, this accessible introduction to psychologist Jean Piaget's unique and groundbreaking ideas guides readers through the fascinating world of a growing child's mind and shows adults how to create an environment that will enhance and accelerate a child's intellectual development. Science literature Kahena Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:27:56 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863292-critical-readings-on-piaget.html http://englishtips.org/1150863292-critical-readings-on-piaget.html This new collection of distinctive studies tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. A useful and compact text for students and researchers. Science literature Kahena Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:21:12 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863219-after-utopia.html http://englishtips.org/1150863219-after-utopia.html After Utopia By developing the concept of critical space, After Utopia presents a new genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. Nicholas Spencer argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst reimagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Instead of fully imagined utopian societies, such fiction depicts localized utopian spaces that provide essential support for the models of history on which these authors focus.  Reuploaded Thanks to peter cos Non-Fiction azhers Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:59:11 +0400 http://englishtips.org/1150863036-parkinsons-law.html http://englishtips.org/1150863036-parkinsons-law.html PARKINSON'S LAWTo the very young, to school-teachers, as also to those who compile textbooks about constitutional history, politics, and current affairs the world is a more or less rational place. They visualize the election of representatives, freely chosen from among those the people trust. They picture the process by which the wisest and best of these become ministers of state. They imagine how captains of industry, freely elected by shareholders, choose for managerial responsibility those who have proved their ability in a humbler role. Books exist in which assumptions such as these are boldly stated or tacidy implied. 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