Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first CenturyThis textbook furnishes a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the U.S., exploring the nature of language variation in the United States and its social, historical and political significance.
The book is divided into three sections: Part I, American English; Part II, Other Language Varieties; and Part III, The Sociolinguistic Situation in the U.S.A.
Covers topics in plane and solid (space) geometry. Also included are pictorial diagrams with thorough explanations on solving problems in congruence, parallelism, inequalities, similarities, triangles, circles, polygons, constructions, and coordinate/analytic geometry.
Princeton Problems in Physics with SolutionsAimed at helping the physics student to develop a solid grasp of basic graduate-level material, this book presents worked solutions to a wide range of informative problems. These problems have been culled from the preliminary and general examinations created by the physics department at Princeton University for its graduate program. The authors, all students who have successfully completed the examinations, selected these problems on the basis of usefulness, interest, and originality, and have provided highly detailed solutions to each one.
End-of-Life Care and Addiction: A Family Systems ApproachWith a growing elderly population comes an increased need to recognize the medical and psychological needs of older adults suffering from addiction, particularly towards the end of life. This guide describes the challenges such persons and families present to those providing end-of-life care, and shows caregivers how to best negotiate these issues with clients and their families.
This book offers a systematic overview of Aristotle's conception of well-being, virtue and justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then explores the major themes of Politics: civic-mindedness, slavery, family, property, the common good, class conflict, the limited wisdom of the multitude, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society.
Covers topics in plane and solid (space) geometry. Also included are pictorial diagrams with thorough explanations on solving problems in congruence, parallelism, inequalities, similarities, triangles, circles, polygons, constructions, and coordinate/analytic geometry.
