Category: Educational

The Pragmatics of Politeness by Geoffrey Leech
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Overview: This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech’s 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms ‘polite’ or ‘impolite’ to linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony (“mock politeness”) and banter (“mock impoliteness”), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Reviving America’s Forgotten Neighborhoods: An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts by Elise M. Bright
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Overview: This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra
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Overview: A compelling vision of a new reality, a reconciliation of science and the human spirit for a future that will work

The dynamics underlying the major problems of our time—cancer, crime, pollution, nuclear power, inflation, the energy shortage—are all the same. We have reached a time of dramatic and potentially dangerous change, a turning point for the planet as a whole. We need a new vision of reality, one that allows the forces transforming our world to flow together as a positive movement for social change. Now distinguished scientist Fritjof Capra gives us that vision, a holistic paradigm of science and spirit.

“This splendid and thoughtful book is an essential guide for anyone inquiring about the place of science and metascience in our contemporary culture. Those who enjoyed Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics should not expect a sequel; this is a much more ambitious book that attempts and succeeds in presenting a whole worldview from the viewpoint of a committed and experienced physicist who also writes from within the North American culture…. It is unusually detailed and thorough in its inclusion of the conventional and the alternative approaches to topics ranging from ecology through medicine and psychology to economics. It is at once scholarly and easy to read.”—Jim Lovelock, New Scientist
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin
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Overview: All Over the Map is an urgent response to the radical changes in contemporary architecture and the built environment witnessed in the twenty-first century. Characteristically polemic, incisive and energetic, these essays explore pressing questions of architectural and urban design, and critical issues of public space and participation. From New York to New Orleans, the Amazon to Jerusalem, Sorkin brings a critical eye to bear on a sweeping range of subjects

Whether castigating the sorry performance of the architectural avant-garde, considering the nature of place in globalized culture, or providing mock instructions for entering a high-security environment, these writings make a powerful and provocative case for architecture and urban design to re-engage with the lives and societies from which they have become increasingly detached.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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Guide to Contemporary Chinese Literature by Paper Republic (Author), Dylan Levi King (Author), Rachel Cheung (Author), Emily Xueni Jin (Author), Andrea Lingenfelter (Author), Ping Zhu (Author), Eric Abrahamsen (Editor), Yvette Zhu (Editor), Xiaolu Guo (Introduction)
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Overview: Paper Republic’s definitive guide to contemporary Chinese literature in translation features detailed biographical entries covering almost 100 of the most important writers working in the Chinese language today, from Anni Baby to Zhang Yueran, by way of Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan. The biographies are complemented by in-depth essays:

• Dylan Levi King assesses the changing role of the author in Chinese society

• US-based academic Zhu Ping discusses women’s writing in Chinese

• Translator and scholar Andrea Lingenfelter provides an introduction to the rich but often neglected field of Hong Kong literature

• Emily Xueni Jin outlines the increasingly influential field of Chinese science fiction

• Rachel Cheung brings us bang up-to-date with the latest in Chinese internet literature

• A powerful introductory essay by Xiaolu Guo, the Chinese-born, UK-based novelist, gives a view from the inside
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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