African American Hospitals in North Carolina: 39 Institutional Histories, 1880-1967, Pollitt Phoebe Ann

Автор: Simpson Dana
Название: Phoebe and Her Unicorn: A Heavenly Nostrils Chronicle
ISBN: 1449446205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781449446208
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: It all started when Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face.

Автор: Pollitt Katha
Название: Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
ISBN: 1250072662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250072665
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book

From noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications.

Nearly fifty years after the Roe v. Wade ruling, Abortion is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a bad thing, an agonizing decision, making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Meanwhile, the rights once upheld by the Supreme Court are threatened to be repudiated and systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright.

Pro reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers.

"A refreshing and comprehensive look at abortion rights...Pro is a passionate plea--and a book that is needed now more than ever." --Salon

"Ultimately, Pollitt is arguing not just for reproductive rights but for reproductive justice, which places the right to mother, or not, within the global context of human rights and social and economic justice, inextricable from the fight for universal health insurance, immigration reform and a host of social challenges." --The Chicago Tribune

Автор: Phoebe M. S. Lin
Название: The Prosody of Formulaic Language: 0
ISBN: 1441181156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441181152
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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To apply the same approaches to analysing spoken and written formulaic language is problematic; to do so masks the fact that the contextual meaning of spoken formulaic language is encoded, to a large extent, in its prosody. In The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences, Phoebe Lin offers a new perspective on formulaic language, arguing that while past research often treats formulaic language as a lexical phenomenon, the phonological aspect of it is a more fundamental facet.

This book draws its conclusions from three original, empirical studies of spoken formulaic language, assessing intonation unit boundaries as well as features such as tempo and stress placement. Across all studies, Lin considers questions of methodology and conceptual framework.

The corpus-based descriptions of prosody outlined in this book not only deepen our understanding of the nature of formulaic language but have important implications for English Language Teaching and automatic speech synthesis.