Includes the works of neglected theorists such as Horace Wyatt, who showed that English can be taught through the mother tongue as well as directly, and Michael West, whose emphasis on the educational value of teaching reading in difficult circumstances has often been ignored in favour of the more utilitarian, spoken-language approach to ELT.

Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker vital registers, and employs the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis. The data are analysed within the framework of a structural model of mortality change comprising the proximate determinants of exposure to, and resistance...

This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local populations to changing economic or ecological circumstances, and tackles the vexed question of the relative importance of cultural and environmental...

This book is so understandable you feel what the writer feels.
This book is so enlightening even the kids could relate and also feel what the writer's message is about.