Globalisation processes and minority languages: linguistic hybridity in Brittany [PDF]
Recent interest in the ‘disappearance’ of languages has been accompanied by increased revitalisation efforts in many minority language settings, often considered to be experiencing obsolescence due to pressures of globalisation and modernity.
Hornsby, Michael
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Locality, politics and culture : Poplar in the 1920s. [PDF]
PhDThe thesis begins with a discussion of the literature on local working-class politics, which includes the work of labour historians, political geographers and locality-study writers.
Rose, Gillian Cathryn
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Our brothers across the ocean? : Unionist diplomacy, the Lansdown Foreign Office, and the Anglo-American 'special relationship', 1900-1905 [PDF]
This study is intended as a detailed exploration of British diplomacy with the United States in the first five years of the twentieth century, that is, the period during which the Marquis of Lansdowne presided at the Foreign Office.
Adams, Iestyn Michael
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Communism in the professions : the organisation of the British Communist Party among professional workers, 1933-1956 [PDF]
This thesis is a historical study of middle-class members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Although it is principally concerned with the period from 1933 to 1956 some attention is given to the Party's first decade and the years immediately ...
Parsons, Stephen Robert
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Challenging challenges : a metaphysical redress of van den Haag's retributive axiom : Unequal justice over equal injustice [PDF]
Includes abstract.
Traub, Craig Michael
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Discusses in the Meditator Image of Bian Zhilin's Poetry-Taking "Several People," "The Heart of the Old City," "White Spiral Shell" as Examples [PDF]
卞之琳(1910-2000),江蘇海門人。幼年於私墊勤習古書,幼年入北京大學英文系,畢業後到濟南、保定等地教書,並且參與編輯《水星》、《新詩》等刊物。在詩歌創作中,吸納中國傳統詩學以及西方瓦雷里、艾略特的詩學養分,融入自身獨特的審美體驗,並加以選擇、轉化,而在中國新詩的發展史上具有一定的地位。著有詩集《三秋草》、《魚目集》、《漢園集》、《合刊》、《慰勞信集》、《十年詩草》、《雕蟲紀歷》及翻譯等多種。就其詩作而言,常以平凡的意象凝定宇宙的覺識,並開拓智性的詩美。今則以〈幾個人〉、〈古城的心〉、〈白螺殼 ...
李蕙如
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Selling body/selling pleasure : women negotiating poverty, work and sexuality [PDF]
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited ...
Chen, Mei-Hua
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Identification of some Malaysian grasses [PDF]
When BUSE gave an enumeration of the grasses collected by JUNGHUHN in Java and Sumatra, he mentioned under Paspalum a species, described by RETZIUS in the year 1781 as Paspalum hirsutum.
Henrard, J.Th.
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The everyday Bogans: Identity and community amongst Heavy Metal fans [PDF]
Since the mid-twentieth century some social psychologists have demarcated communities as static entities; conceptual and physical boundaries were placed around communities to facilitate scholarly analysis.
Snell, Dave
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The use of multi-sensory stimulation to improve functional performance in older people with dementia: a randomised single blind trial [PDF]
Dementia affects over 750,000 people in the UK (Alzheimer’s society, 2003). Clinicians and healthcare managers report dissatisfaction with current healthcare options available for people with dementia (Stubbings & Sharp, 1999).
Collier, Lesley
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