A Thomas: 872 books

Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics is a comprehensive introductory text which discusses the development of pragmatics - its aims and methodology - and also introduces themes that are not generally covered in other texts. Jenny Thomas focuses on the dynamic nature of speaker...

One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing ‘The King of the Pirates’, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court. On the Barbary Coast...

A Thomas Lowther, born November 21st 1966 in a convent in Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. The son of a merchant seaman, he too being a well travelled individual. Having spent some early years in Canada and his young adulthood (10 years) in Her Majesties Armed Forces, had the opportunity to see many walks...

Teaching and information topics include: a concise overview of the many aspects of yoga a vast amount of computer drawn illustrations and more than 500 photographs depicting the yoga postures a self-study guide to the yoga poses including seventy basic foundation postures with descriptions, techniques,...

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Laws are needed to manage ones life. Laws are not optional. Disregard laws, and you can find yourself suffering from the worst plague imaginable: ignorance. Managing Your Life reveals the twenty-one laws of life that connect us to our Creator, enriching our lives with wisdom, knowledge, and understanding....

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Von tausendjährigen, als Fruchtbarkeitssymbole verehrten Statuen bis hin zu den Odalisken der modernen Maler erotische Kunst hat immer eine bedeutende Rolle in der Gesellschaft gespielt, unabhängig davon, welche Vorstellung von Kultur oder Moral gerade herrschte. In diesem Werk sind eintausend Bilder...

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This book is written to show the hidden talents of both men and women who failed to discover and use them constructively. Only as they now have time with little to nothing to do, by being incarcerated, did they discover the assets they possess. Had they been motivated and discovered earlier their...

In the poorest countries, such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Mali, the United States has struggled to work with governments whose corruption and lack of capacity are increasingly seen to be the cause of instability and poverty. The development and security communities call for "good governance"...

Different eras and civilisations have treated erotic images with varying acceptance and different concepts of erotica and these tendencies are reflected within the works themselves. From ancient statues devoted to fertility to Renaissance engravings designed to encourage procreation within marriage,...

This is a humorously cynical view of society and the moral systems we have developed. The poems poke fun at government, hippies, the drug culture, romance, sexuality, sociology, politics, and so many things about life that we take for granted everyday. Most were written in my "angry young man"...

For nearly 40 years "among the glades of Epping Forest" Churchill found a base for his parliamentary life. This book relates with anecdotal and archival evidence the attempt to unseat him after what many supporters considered an injudicious Munich speech.