This book addresses the question: why do sound changes happen when and where they do? Jeremy Smith discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English. He relates his arguments to larger questions about the nature of explanation in history and historical linguistics, and examines the interplay between sound change and social change. Drawing on the latest research in the linguistics and history he shows how insights in one field illuminate the other.
After the opening chapter describing the book's approach and a general theoretical framework for the study of sound-change, the...

This book is the first place to turn when you encounter a Britishism or Americanism. The dictionary illuminates differences in vocabulary, usage, pronunciation, spelling, and the history of English, how and why differences arose, and what those differences are. More then 2,500 entries are listed on each side with a set of tables that includes national holidays, presidents, kings and queens, and money. The dictionary is an easy-to-read, light-hearted, and sometimes irreverent catalogue of the difference between American and British English. With a tone that is deliberately informal, much of...

Attention Space Travelers! You don't need a rocketship to get out of this world; some folks can do it over take-out Cajun food. Join Pythagoras the chicken, Snowball the polar bear, Ding the human, and, well, Prairie Dawg, on an adventure beyond space, beyond time, and just beyond them spicy fries. Yum! John Thomas and Jeremy Smith present "ZOO FORCE: Bean and Nothingness," the mindbending new installment in the saga of the defenders of the La Tornada Trailer Park and thereabouts. ZOO FORCE: Bean and Nothingness is a 116 page graphic novel.

The Madonna's judgement upon Man has begun, but the angel she seeks has not come. The Fearsome Shade sees a way to make the angel come to his senses, be his friend again. The cops just see a whole lot of overtime. This is the second volume in THE FAIRER SEX, and the third book called a Tale of Shades and Angels.

Come N' Get It! It's the latest adventures of Freedom City, Texas' lowest-ranked enforcer teams: Zoo Force and Not Zoo Force! Join Ding, Prairie Dawg, Snowball, and Pythagoras on a trip to the local book/record/video store! There they find a secret that may tear the team apart! On the flip side, Captain Cat and Not Zoo Force are already plenty torn apart, but the latest outrage by The Vet really takes the cake! (Who would do that to a poor wienerdog, anyways?) Told in the usual crazy Zoo Force multimedia style, a mix of conventional comics art and photo manipulation, this third volume in the...

Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach.

As well as tracing the lineage of the field, the book evaluates the work of S. N. Eisenstadt, Norbert Elias and Johann P. Arnason as leading contemporary scholars of...

Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach.

As well as tracing the lineage of the field, the book evaluates the work of S. N. Eisenstadt, Norbert Elias and Johann P. Arnason as leading contemporary scholars of...