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Product Description: The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries. While global warming has brought several such routes into existence, until recently these channels were hopelessly choked by impassible ice...read more
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9780520266278 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2010), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries.

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9780520269958 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2011), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries.

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Product Description: The world is being reshaped by fundamental changes deriving from globalisation and the shift from modernity to late modernity. At the heart of these changes is the knowledge economy. Work in the knowledge economy operates quite differently than in the industrial economy in that it is highly dependent on communication and language...read more
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9781847692511 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, March 15, 2010, cover price $144.95 | About this edition: The world is being reshaped by fundamental changes deriving from globalisation and the shift from modernity to late modernity.

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9781847692504 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, March 15, 2010, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The world is being reshaped by fundamental changes deriving from globalisation and the shift from modernity to late modernity.

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Product Description: This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the ‘Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their ‘problems’...read more
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9780415381239 | Routledge, August 21, 2009, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the ‘Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their ‘problems’.

Paperback:

9780415381222 | 1 edition (Routledge, March 17, 2009), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the ‘Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their ‘problems’.

Miscellaneous:

9780203086247 | Routledge, March 13, 2009, cover price $55.95

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Product Description: Since first reported to the world in 1780, the death of Captain Cook on a Hawaiian beach the previous year has been revered, celebrated, and shrouded in mystery. Simultaneously called a hero and an antihero, a ruthless invader, and a torchbearer of the Enlightenment, Cook’s reputation grew as much out of the moving story of his death as out of his adventures while he lived...read more
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9780674031944 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 15, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Since first reported to the world in 1780, the death of Captain Cook on a Hawaiian beach the previous year has been revered, celebrated, and shrouded in mystery.

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Product Description: Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument about the nature of democracy and how the current changes in governmental discourses accommodate linguistic and cultural diversity...read more
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9781403998163 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2006, cover price $116.00 | About this edition: Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways.

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Product Description: Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state? This book considers the Indian example where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by encounters staged at the local level, and are also informed by ideas circulated by the government and the broader development community...read more
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9780521834797 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 7, 2005, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world.

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9780521542555 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world.

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Product Description: As a man whose "competence changed the face of the world," Captain James Cook has fascinated and intrigued generations of people worldwide. This lively and highly illustrated account of the man and his Pacific voyages draws on the National Maritime Museum’s extensive Cook collection to tell the story of the greatest explorer of his age...read more
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9780948065439 | Natl Maritime Museum, December 1, 2003, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: As a man whose "competence changed the face of the world," Captain James Cook has fascinated and intrigued generations of people worldwide.

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9789706516961 | Oceano De Mexico, March 1, 2003, cover price $27.62

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Product Description: A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region. South Asia provides one of the world's most challenging development contexts and The authors take a different approach to most traditional development texts, making the latest research teacher friendly and presenting material in an accessible manner for non-specialists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Robert W. Bradnock (editor) and Glyn Williams (editor)
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9780130259479 | Prentice Hall, March 1, 2002, cover price $72.50 | About this edition: A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this extremely popular region.

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Product Description: This is a detailed analysis of Welsh-language use, based on data collected in 1996. It is one of the first detailed empirical studies of a European minority language, and brings to the analysis an innovative and challenging blend of philosophy, sociolinguistics, history and economics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780708315798 | Univ of Wales Pr, March 29, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This is a detailed analysis of Welsh-language use, based on data collected in 1996.

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Product Description: For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in English of the principles and theories of French discourse analysis. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415189408 | Routledge, June 1, 1999, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in English of the principles and theories of French discourse analysis.

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Product Description: Glyn Williams offers a critique of mainstream sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. He takes as his starting point the philosophical roots of the theory of language in society, arguing that they lie in a specific attitude to society which derives from 18th and 19th century social philosophy...read more
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9780415065139 | Routledge, May 1, 1992, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Glyn Williams offers a critique of mainstream sociolinguistics and the sociology of language.

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9780415065146 | Routledge, May 1, 1992, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Glyn Williams offers a critique of mainstream sociolinguistics and the sociology of language.

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9780708310892 | Univ of Wales Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $60.00

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Product Description: This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
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9780714631585 | Routledge, June 1, 1980, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: This title available in eBook format.

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