Improving Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School Students (Literacy Studies) (Repost)

Improving Reading Comprehension of Middle and High School Students (Literacy Studies) By Kristi L. Santi, Deborah K. Reed


2015 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 331914734X | PDF | 3 MB

This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment. Leading researchers share their most current research on each issue, covering theory and empirical research from a range of specializations, including various content areas, English language learners, students with disabilities, and reading assessment. Topics discussed include: cognitive models of reading comprehension and how they relate to typical or atypical development of reading comprehension, reading in history classes, comprehension of densely worded and symbolic mathematical texts, understanding causality in science texts, the more rigorous comprehension standards in English language arts classes, balancing the practical and measurement constraints of the assessment of reading comprehension, understanding the needs and challenges of English language learners and students in special education with respect to the various content areas discussed in this book. This book is of interest to researchers in literacy and educational psychology as well as curriculum developers.

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News Culture (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies) [Repost]

News Culture (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies) by Stuart Allan


English | Mar. 1, 2010 | ISBN: 0335235654 | 384 Pages | PDF | 6.78 MB

News Culture offers a timely examination of the forms, practices, institutions and audiences of journalism. Having highlighted a range of pressing issues confronting the global news industry today, it proceeds to provide a historical consideration of the rise of "objective" reporting in newspaper, radio and television news. It explores the way news is produced, its textual conventions, and its negotiation by the reader, listener or viewer as part of everyday life. Stuart Allan also explores topics such as the cultural dynamics of sexism and racism as they shape news coverage, as well as the rise of online news, citizen journalism, war reporting and celebrity-driven infotainment. Building on the success of the bestselling previous editions, this new edition addresses the concerns of the news media age, featuring: An expanded chapter on news, power and the public sphere A chapter-length discussion of war journalism, tracing key factors shaping reportage from the battlefields of Vietnam to the current war in Iraq A chapter on citizen journalism in times of crisis, including a number of examples where ordinary individuals have performed the role of a journalist to bear witness to tragic events This book is essential reading for students of journalism, cultural and media studies, sociology and politics.

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Exegesis in the Targum of Psalms: The Old, the New, and the Rewritten (Gorgias Dessertations: Biblical Studies)

Exegesis in the Targum of Psalms: The Old, the New, and the Rewritten (Gorgias Dessertations: Biblical Studies) (Gorgias Dissertations; Biblical Studies) by Timothy Edwards


English | Aug. 30, 2007 | ISBN: 159333432X | 300 Pages | PDF | 2.32 MB

The Old, the New and the Rewritten illustrates how Targum Psalms creatively interprets selected psalms and how those interpretations relate to other Jewish and Christian traditions, including early translations of the psalms, rabbinic Midrashim, the New Testament and early Church Fathers. The study of these Psalms suggests viewing Targum Psalms as a creative partner in the world of biblical interpretation, as opposed to a compilation of already existing midrashic material. Edwards portrays the Targum as a link between the written and oral Torah that leads its readers on a path to tradition.

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Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) [Repost]

Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Sten Vikner


English | Apr. 13, 1995 | ISBN: 0195083946 | 304 Pages | PDF | 16.01 MB

This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of Principles-and-Parameters to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.

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Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (Suny Series in Israeli Studies)

Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (Suny Series in Israeli Studies) by Michael N. Barnett


English | Feb. 1996 | ISBN: 0791428311 | 296 Pages | PDF | 5.03 MB

Because Israel is unique in many dimensions, many social scientists consider it a historical peculiarity. Neither East nor West, developed nor undeveloped, capitalist nor socialist, Third World nor First World, Israel has little in common with other countries and their historical experiences. This book of original essays challenges the image of Israeli uniqueness and the status of the Israeli case and at the same time corrects some common misperceptions about the comparative method in general and case selection in particular. At the same time, it compares Israeli and Arab experiences and addresses critical issues in Middle Eastern studies. To challenge the image of Israeli uniqueness, the authors situate Israel"s history in comparative context; employ macrohistorical concepts both to reexamine the Israeli case and to build bridges between Israel and other historical experiences; and use the Israeli case to reconsider existing social science theories. [Articles by Michael Barnett, Yehezkal Dror, Rebecca Kook, Ian Lustick, Joel Migdal, Gershon Shafir, Gabriel Sheffer, Shibley Telhami, and Mark Tessler and Ina Warriner] Israel in Comparative Perspective demonstrates how our understanding of the region can be enriched by using models and theories developed in other regions to reexamine Israeli history.

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The Syntax of Ellipsis: Evidence from Dutch Dialects (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) [Repost]

The Syntax of Ellipsis: Evidence from Dutch Dialects (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck


English | Feb. 22, 2010 | ISBN: 0195375653 | 334 Pages | PDF | 2.12 MB

The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using two case studies, Van Craenenbroeck argues that both the P.F.-deletion and the pro-theory of ellipsis are needed to account for the full range of elliptical phenomena attested in natural language. The first case study focuses on instances of stranding to the right of a sluiced wh-phrase: prepositions in English (What about? ) and demonstrative pronouns in southern Dutch dialects (Wie dat? "who that"). Van Craenenbroeck gives both of these phenomena a P.F.-deletion analysis, which turns out to have considerable repercussions for the structure of the left periphery and the syntax of wh-movement. Specifically, while minimal wh-phrases move from their I.P.-internal base position to spec C.P., complex ones are base-generated in the (split) left periphery. The second case study is concerned with Short Do Replies in southern Dutch dialects, a type of contradictory reply that at first sight bears a close resemblance to English V.P.-ellipsis. Van Craenenbroeck shows that in this case the ellipsis site is best represented as a null, structureless proform that is licensed by the head of a high Po.l.P. . Moreover, this pronominal is argued to occur in two other dialectal constructions as well: contradictory replies of the type Da"s nie "that is not" found in Brabant Dutch, and the occurrence of subject clitics and agreement endings on the words for yes and no in Southern Dutch dialects (e.g. Ja-n-s "yes-Plural-they"). The Syntax of Ellipsis will be of interest to scholars of the left periphery, wh-movement, and Dutch dialects.

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Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory 2 (Studies in Economic Theory) by James C. Moore

Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory 2 (Studies in Economic Theory) by James C. Moore


English | 15 Dec. 2010 | ISBN: 3642085520 | 343 Pages | PDF | 11 MB

This two-volume work functions both as a textbook for graduates and as a reference for economic scholars. Assuming only the minimal mathematics background required of every second-year graduate in economics, the two volumes provide a self-contained and careful development of mathematics through locally convex topological vector spaces, and fixed-point, separation, and selection theorems in such spaces.

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Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora

Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora by Paul Baker and Tony McEnery


English | 2015 | ISBN: 1137431725 | 1137431725 pages | PDF | 4,2 MB

The growing availability of large collections of language texts has expanded our horizons for language analysis, enabling the swift analysis of millions of words of data, aided by computational methods. This edited collection contains examples of such contemporary research which uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation. Authors examine a range of spoken, written, multimodal and electronic corpora covering themes which include health, academic writing, social class, ethnicity, gender, television narrative, news, Early Modern English and political speech. The chapters showcase the variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods that this new generation of discourse analysts are combining together, offering a set of compelling models for future corpus-based research in discourse.

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Lesbian and Gay Studies

Theo Sandfort, "Lesbian and Gay Studies"


English | ISBN: 0761954171, 076195418X | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 7 MB

This timely and thoughtful book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking what is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda? The Connections between the academic study of the subject and the lesbian and gay movement are also examined.








Coming out has been one of the most significant social and cultural changes of the postwar period. The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and gay studies has emerged as a vital and enriching field. It offers challenges to more traditional disciplines and requires new forms of thought about the connections between academic work and personal politics. This book will generate much interest in academic departments of lesbian and gay studies, gender, sociology, cultural studies and political science.

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Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Overview (Cass Military Studies) [Repost]

Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Overview (Cass Military Studies) by Giuseppe Caforio


English | Dec. 13, 2006 | ISBN: 0415376467 | 320 Pages | PDF | 1.17 MB

This innovative book presents the reader with a clear international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. In this first title on its subject, leading expert Giuseppe Caforio offers a thorough analysis of the new aspects and trends of the social sciences in studying the military. Since the end of the Cold War, military operations other than war, crisis-response operations, the fight against terrorism, and hi-tech warfare have posed for the militaries of all countries a new set of human and social challenges and problems of an intensity that had never been seen in peacetime. Sociology, social psychology, anthropology and the science of conflict are grappling with these issues, common to all armed forces, with a new fervour. This new book offers an update on the state-of-the-art on this theme and defines the latest study and research trends in the field. Social Sciences and the Military contains essays by some of the most highly regarded scholars on the subject and will be essential reading for all students of civil-military relations, conflict resolution and military studies in general.

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Strategy in the Southern Oceans: A South American View (Studies in Contemporary Maritime Policy and Strategy)

Strategy in the Southern Oceans: A South American View (Studies in Contemporary Maritime Policy and Strategy) by Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse


English | Oct. 19, 1989 | ISBN: 0861870174 | 256 Pages | PDF | 8.16 MB

Strategy in the Southern Oceans: A South American View

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