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Nancy C. Dorian's examination of the fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a number of explanations for delayed recogntion of linguistic variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups.

Robert Rupert argues against the view that human cognitive processes comprise elements beyond the boundary of the organism, developing a systems-based conception in place of this extended view. He also argues for a conciliatory understanding of the relation between the computational approach to cognition and the embedded and embodied views

The clergy faces mounting challenges in a secular world, where declining prestige makes it difficult to attract the best and the bright young Americans to the ministry. This book offers a snapshot of this contemporary clergy drama. It is intended for those concerned about the shifting ground of our churches and the health of religion in America.

This book provides practicing clinicians with an update on treatments found to be effective in pediatric psychology. It includes details on a number of treatment techniques for different pediatric problems. In addition, its companion website contains entire treatment manuals written by leading researchers in pediatric psychology.

Provides an examination of sociolinguistic variation. This book takes a quantitative approach to the study of variation, correlating features of discourse with three social categories: social class, gender, and age. The conclusions of the study indicate that age accounts for the greatest number of differences, followed by gender and social class.

Providing information on chemical data analysis, this book aims to make data analysis simple by demystifying the language and whenever possible giving unambiguous ways of doing things. It covers topics such as measurements, means and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and calibration models.

This volume provides complete translations of 20 "basic myths" of Mexico and Central America and shows how they have influenced the artistic, literary and political life of modern Mesoamerica.

Combines the two most common approaches used to introduce students or general readers to ethics: the historical and the applied. Using these approaches, the author examines traditional ethical theories and disagreements, exploring Aristotelian, Kantian, and utilitarian ethics, as well as their contemporary defenders.

Cynthia Gordon uses tape-recorded conversations about everyday, mundane topics among three dual-income families to explore how family communication creates a special kind of meaning and a sense of distinctive group coherence within the family.

Imposing Values provides an even-handed characterization of the differences between modern liberalism and classical liberalism about the proper scope of government. It also systematically and comprehensively discusses arguments for and against various regulatory regimes favored by modern liberals and opposed by classical liberals.

The Gospel in Christian Traditions demonstrates the continuity through history and through a very wide range of Christian denominational and cultural traditions of a single focal message: the "gospel" message about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Virgin Mary has long been the object of both devotional and scholarly interest, and there has been a proliferation of studies on Hindu goddess-worship traditions. This book offers a comparative study of Hindu goddesses and the Virgin Mary.

Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of Fryderyk Chopin's youth-largely unknown to the English-speaking world-and places Chopin's early works in the context of this milieu. Halina Goldberg provides a historiographic perspective that allows a new and better understanding of Poland's cultural and musical circumstances.

This book presents a history of microbial evolutionary biology from the 19th century to the present. It follows the research of molecular evolutionists who explore the origins of the genetic system and the primary life forms: three domains and multiple kingdoms, created by mechanisms very unlike those considered by Darwin and his followers.