Oxford University Press

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. Although the Kyoto Protocol has now been ratified by Russia and hence come into legal effect, the USA, China, and India are all outside its emissions caps. Few European...

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The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The other stories collected in this volume draw on Crane's subsequent experience of war reporting and include `The Open Boat, `The...

How to Write is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who think they        can't write, or for whom writing is an ordeal. Broken down into short topic-based        chapters on everything from beginning to revising, it demystifies the writing        process by taking the reader through each stage necessary to bring a piece...

This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the        latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of        slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey        and machine-searchable newspaper collections provide a wealth of new...

This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical and compositional semantics and provides a full account of the structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs. It will interest students in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above....