Eva Evelyn Hanks is a writer who also happens to be married to a bank robber. She has not had a book published before but events in her life have forced her writing into an area hardly any of us really understands - what it is like to be in prison or to love someone in prison. 'Eva' has faced much hardship in her own life, but managed to overcome ......
Sociological Thought: Beyond Eurocentric Theory is designed to provide students of sociology with an alternative vision of social theory. In an exciting and original introduction to the book, Abdo provides an innovative critique of the Eurocentric and male-oriented nature of conventional sociological textbooks, and provides us with a new approach ......
Ce Petit manuel d'introduction a la transcription phonetique, grace a ses explications simples mais precises et ses exercices tres progressifs, permet a l'etudiant intermediaire ou avance de francais langue Seconde, a l'etudiant de linguistique ou a l'etudiant de phonetique, de se familiariser avec les caracteristiques principales du phonetisme ......
Social Problems in Canadian First Nations Communities
An outstanding contribution to the literature on alcohol abuse in First Nations communities, The Insanity of Alcohol illuminates this and other social problems confronting Aboriginal communities in Canada. The authors draw on more than fifteen years of studies, interviews, and test situations conducted on and off reserves. They identify issues, ......
This composition manual aims at improving the textual skills of students of French as a second language. The manual contains models of descriptive, narrative, dialogical, argumentative, and explanatory writing. Students are asked to analyse and imitate these texts using the latest research on textual grammar.
Beaucoup d'apprenants, apres quelques semestres d'apprentissage, souhaitent une etude plus systmematique des formes et des structures du francais contemporain. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux etudiants desireux de construire un savoir grammatical et de parfaire leur competence linguistique. Il s'adresse egalement aux nombreux professeurs qui recherchent ......
Cahier d'exercices pour l'apprentissage du francais ecrit et parle
Traduire, c'est rendre, dans la langue d'arrivee, le message puise dans le texte en langue de depart. Il s'agit, evidemment, de rendre ce message aussi fidelement que possible en exploitant les ressources de la langue d'arrivee et en maniant correctement sa grammaire, sa syntaxe et son vocabulaire. Il convient egalement de trouver, dans la langue ......
Bank robbers. Who are they? Where do they come from? What motivates individuals to commit these crimes? Behind the Bars: Experiences in Crime examines these questions in this intriguing study of the life situations, relationships, and value systems of people who commit serious crimes. Based on eight years of research with law enforcement ......
