Gary Ives

Essential study guides for the future linguist. Language and Power is an introduction to how English is used to influence, persuade and position us within hierarchies. It is suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge English Corpus, it looks at the linguistic techniques in situations where language is used to exert influence, exploring how contexts affect the language we use. Short activities help explain analysis methods, guiding students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.

A teenager pisses himself, two girls discovered embraced in a kiss suffer exposure before the entire school; a wounded girl experiences prophetic cautionary hallucinations; a blind boy listens as his mother is raped. These and other stories probe the harder, darker edges of love, shame, violence, and the uncertainties of future the youth of all cultures face. Adolescence is a tough time under normal conditions, but toss in the misery of love, hate, sexuality, and drugs, and challenges arise that can make, break, and alter the course of young lives.

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world From a post-Civil War soldier who's sick from the dreadfulness and injustice of battle and longs for a life where he can regain his self-respect to a slip of a woman with flashing blue eyes and an Irish brogue who's on the track of the men who took her family, this collection of monthly winners from the eZine Frontier Tales whisks you back in time to when life and death were close neighbors and a person's word was a bond. These Tales honor the Old West and the men and women whose strength and spirit made the United States the unique experiment it was.