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Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide by Peter Bakker 9781501512674
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.12This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical... -
Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide by Peter Bakker 9781614514763
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical... -
A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis by Peter Bakker 9780195097122
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £70.65The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for... -
Humanitarian Logistics by Rolando Tomasini 9780230205758
Booksplease Price: £56.12Imagine planning an event like the Olympics. Now imagine planning the same event but not knowing when or where it will take place, or how many will attend. This is what humanitarian logisticians are... -
Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language by Yaron Matras
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Romani is one of Britain's oldest and most established minority languages. Brought to the country by Romani immigrants from continental Europe in the sixteenth century or even earlier, it was spoken... -
The Creole Debate by John H. McWhorter 9781108450836
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past... -
The Creole Debate by John H. McWhorter 9781108428644
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.72Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past... -
Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language: Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole by William Jennings 9783319619514
Booksplease Price: £79.75This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the... -
Aspects of Language Contact: New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes by Thomas Stolz 9783110195842
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on... -
A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future by Daniel C. Esty
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority in the past decade. The 2015 Paris... -
Management Education for the World: A Vision for Business Schools Serving People and Planet by Katrin Muff 9781782547624
Booksplease Price: £116.18For many years commentators have described what is wrong with business schools - characterizing them as the breeding grounds of a culture of greed and self-enrichment in global business at the... -
True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale by Barbara Gemmill-Herren
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken... -
Principles of Sustainable Business: Frameworks for Corporate Action on the SDGs by 9780367565596
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The basic function of companies is to add value to society. Profits are a means to an end, not an end in itself. The ability of companies to innovate, scale and invest provides them with a powerful... -
Principles of Sustainable Business: Frameworks for Corporate Action on the SDGs by 9780367565589
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.99The basic function of companies is to add value to society. Profits are a means to an end, not an end in itself. The ability of companies to innovate, scale and invest provides them with a powerful...