Category: E-Books

Lisa J. Green’s African American English: A Linguistic Introduction (PDF) caused something of a sensation when it was first published in 2002. Here we have a rigorous, detailed examination of the grammar, lexicon, and sociolinguistics of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) written by a native speaker, and moreover of a lesser

How do we know what part a particular gene has? How do some genes handle the expression of others? How do genes interact to form gene networks? With its exceptional integration of genetics and molecular biology, Genetic Analysis, 3rd Edition, (PDF) explores fascinating questions such as these, describing how our

Perfectionism has been found to play an important yet complex role in sport, dance, and exercise. This collection, The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance and Exercise (ebook) provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory, research findings, measurement, and practitioner issues associated with perfectionism, providing students with insights into

Modeling the Psychopathological Dimensions of Schizophrenia: From Molecules to Behavior (PDF) is the first ebook to offer a comprehensive review of the new clinical, theoretical, and basic research framework that considers psychotic illness as a group of dimensional representations of psychopathology rather than as traditional distinct categorical diagnoses. Psychotic illness,

For more than twenty centuries, from ancient Greece the ideal of natural law has been appealed to in Western moral and legal philosophy as a grounding for ethics and jurisprudence, based on capacities of a common “human nature”. From the early medieval advent of “Christendom”, it was embedded within theistic