Category: E-Books

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (PDF) is a broad survey of linguistic anthropology, including contributions from renowned scholars in the field. Every chapter presents a short historical summary of research in the field and discusses issues and topics of current concern to people doing research in linguistic anthropology. The ebook

Taylor’s Power Law: Order and Pattern in Nature (PDF) is a broad synthesis of this ubiquitous property of natural and man-made phenomena. This stimulating and approachable work surveys the non-biological and biological empirical data describes the statistical uses of Taylor’s power law (TPL) and its relationship to statistical distributions, exposes

This PDF ebook, “Reading for Wonder: Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment” begins by unfolding the nature and artifice of wonder as a human capacity and as a fabricated experience. In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological entanglements and intimacies. Yet

Politics and Rhetoric, (PDF) draws together in a broad and highly accessible way relevant ideas from discourse analysis, classical rhetoric revised to a modern setting, related issues in contemporary political theory, and many carefully chosen examples and issues from current politics. It will be important reading for all students of politics

Given its scope, Vaccination Strategies Against Highly Variable Pathogens, (PDF) will appeal to scientists in the fields of infectious diseases, microbiology, and medicine. Vaccines against antigenically stable pathogens, or pathogens that are only present in a limited number of serotypes, have been very effective in the past and have drastically