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  • Prisoner of the Samurai

    Surviving the Sinking of the USS Houston and the Death Railway

    by James Gee, Rosalie H. Smith ...
    Courage on the River Kwai—the inspiring true story of one marine's resilience in a World War II POW camp following the Battle of the Sunda Strait.Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, the naval cruiser USS Houston sank after taking four torpedo hits by Imperial Japanese warships. Among the survivors clinging to makeshift rafts was James Gee, PFC, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Linguistics and Literacies

    Ideology in Discourses

    by James Gee ...
    In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’.This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The New Work Order

    by James Gee ...
    This book presents a sociocultural approach to language, literacy, and learning that deals directly with the new work order and that integrates concern for schools with concern for workplaces. It helps readers to confront complex problems and to construct their own broader theories. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Literacy

    An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language

    by David Barton ...
    This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.An introductory textbook on the growing field of literacy studies, fully ... Read more

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  • P.O.W. Mayday Over China

    by Andrew Priddy ...
    The courageous story of Jim Young, a B-25 Bomber Crew Member and WWII Prisoner Of War. His Diary of accounts, unedited and kept intact.Please view my other ebook- flushing fish ... Read more

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  • What is Discourse Analysis?

    by Dr. Stephanie Taylor ...
    Series series The 'What is?' Research Methods Series
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.What is Discourse Analysis? is an accessible introduction to an empirical research approach which is widely used in the social sciences and related disciplines.This book explores the idea of how meaning is socially constructed and how 'talk' and text can be ... Read more

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  • Across the Dark Islands

    The War in the Pacific

    by Floyd W. Radike ...
    ACROSS THE DARK ISLANDSThe War in the PacificFloyd W. RadikeBrigadier General, U.S. Army (Ret.)“I remember sitting in a foxhole on Guadalcanal in the rain. The sergeant I shared the hole with shook his head and asked me: ‘What in the hell are we doing on this godforsaken island? Why don’t we let the Japs keep this stinking rock?’ I didn’t have an answer.”The war in the Pacific has never been ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Rajend Mesthrie ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, ... Read more

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  • Red Brother, White Brother

    A Time for Atonement

    by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...
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  • The Thin Red Line

    by James Jones ...
    Series Book 2 - The World War II Trilogy
    With "shattering prose," the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal ( San Francisco Chronicle).In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, ... Read more

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  • Gender, Language and Discourse

    by Ann Weatherall ...
    Series series Women and Psychology
    Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages?Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological research - in particular, discursive psychology - has made to answering these questions. Until now, books on gender and language have tended to be from the sociolinguistic perspective and have focused on one of two issues - sexism in language or gender ... Read more

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