Pat Backley

This collection of papers explores the theme of phonological strength. The general notion of strength plays a central role in explaining a variety of apparently disparate phonological effects relating

This book invites students of linguistics to challenge and reassess their existing assumptions about the form of phonological representations and the place of phonology in generative grammar. It does

This book invites students of linguistics to challenge and reassess their existing assumptions about the form of phonological representations and the place of phonology in generative grammar. It does

LIVE/WORK #2: Mazel Tov! It’s all hands on deck as the LIVE/WORK crew scrambles to restore an artwork before a major exhibition— while house-hunting! Also in this issue: Ben gets an important lette

When Chuck spots a freshly baked blueberry pie cooling on the windowsill, he must have it. It takes some impressive—and athletic—teamwork for Chuck and his friends to reach the ledge, but their reward

Big Chuck thinks a pair of blue pants, although much too small, make him look spiffy. A stubborn woodchuck's misguided fashion statement is turned into a humorous story about self-image and the well-i

Join an adorably oblivious hen for a farmyard adventure in this cherished story by author-illustrator Pat Hutchins, now available in a Classic Board Book edition.Rosie the hen goes out for a walk...an

Big Chuck thinks a pair of blue pants, although much too small, make him look spiffy. A stubborn woodchuck's misguided fashion statement is turned into a humorous story about self-image and the well-i

On a busy morning before school, the whole family leaves the house without giving Jack the dog his breakfast.

"An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive."--The New Yorker The classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, and now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial."Alas, Babylon . . ." With those fateful words, the world as we knew it ended. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. In an instant, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, spared against all odds, the struggle was just beginning, as men and women of all ages and races found the courage to join together and push against the darkness. Pat Frank's classic disaster novel, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, remains prescient