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1. Roman Jakobson

   Edited by Margaret Thomas

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Linguists

   Although Roman Jakobson (1886–1982) styled himself a ‘Russian philologist’, that epithet covers only a fraction of his disciplinary breadth and international impact. In a long and prolific career, he wrote about theoretical and applied linguistics, phonology, prosody, poetics, semiotics,...

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
2. Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection

   Edited by Margaret Oliver, Thomas Bishop, Ben Marchant

   Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

   Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce for a...

   To Be Published October 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition

   A History

   By Margaret Thomas

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

   From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning. This book tells two stories: the story of how scholars in the west have conceived of the fact that human languages share important...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics

   By Margaret Thomas

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the relationship of language to thought? Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics explores how fifty of the most influential figures in the field have asked and have responded to...

   Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge
5. Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems

   By Thomas Gitau, Margaret W. Gitau, David Waltner-Toews

   Series: Advances in Agroecology

   Exploring the implementation of participatory, multistakeholder, and transdisciplinary ecosystem health research, Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems combines the latest theories in complexity and management with practical tools and approaches for sustainable rural...

   Published June 9th 2008 by CRC Press
6. Improving Student Retention in Higher Education

   The Role of Teaching and Learning

   By Glenda Crosling, Liz Thomas, Margaret Heagney

   Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with...

   Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
7. The Wars on Terrorism and Iraq

   Human Rights, Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy

   Edited by Margaret Crahan, John Goering, Thomas G. Weiss

   'If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today! Instead, I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be read by as many members of Congress and of the current US administration as possible, and by a wide cross-section...

   Published March 10th 2004 by Routledge