How much influence can a learner's native language have in making the acquisition of a new language easy or difficult? The effect a native language can have on acquiring second language skills is exam
This volume includes sixty-two papers presented in the MRS Symposium A, Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology 2012, which took place on April 9-13, 2012, in San Franci
Genres across the Disciplines presents cutting edge, corpus-based research into student writing in higher education. Genres across the Disciplines is essential reading for those involved in syllabus a
An examination of how language functions in CLIL, based on a corpus of classroom interactions. Drawing on their wide experience as CLIL educators and researchers, the authors explore data collected in
The most influential work of French biologist and comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), Le Regne Animal, was published in French in 1817, and this sixteen-volume illustrated English versio
The 'student of clouds' Luke Howard (1772–1864) published this work of statistics on weather conditions in London in two volumes, in 1818 and 1820. Volume 1 begins with an introduction to the work, fo
In 1834, Congregational Ministers Reed (1787–1862) and Matheson (1766–1840) were sent to sister churches in the United States, to promote peace and friendship between the two communities. This two-vol
The 20 selected papers in this collection represent a cross-section of the basic materials properties and technological applications of the materials that were reported at the symposium. The topics in
Published in 1819, Aubuisson de Voisins' two-volume Traite de Geognosie was one of the earliest geology books in French. It convincingly challenged the 'Neptunist' theory of his influential teacher Go
First published in Germany in 1855 by the mineralogist Georg Landgrebe (1802–1872), this two-volume work presented the natural history of volcanoes for educated general readers. It reflects the lively
Symposium K, 'Oxide Nanoelectronics', was held November 29–December 3 at the 2010 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The emerging field of oxide nanoelectronics has grown tremendously in the l
"The mathematical methods that physical scientists need for solving substantial problems in their fields of study are set out clearly and simply in this tutorial-style textbook. Students will develop
This Life of Victorian radical politician Richard Cobden (1804–1865) was first published in 1881. It was considered outstanding in its careful and systematic use of source material, as Morley had acce
This wide-ranging history of the West Indies was originally published in 1793, and is here presented in the five-volume edition of 1819. As a planter, Edwards is particularly concerned with agricultur
George McCall Theal (1837–1919) was a prolific South African historian and civil servant. These volumes, first published in 1908, contain Theal's history of South Africa between 1795–1894, in which he
F. G. Welcker's attempt, first published in two volumes in 1835 and 1849, to recover the lost epics of the archaic period, and the conditions of their performance and transmission. If his adventurous
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Three volumes, published in 1887, are devoted to the diary of
This is the second edition of Virgil’s works by the German classical philologist Otto Ribbeck published in Leipzig in 1894–1895. It is solely a work of textual criticism, in which Ribbeck assembled th
Herman Merivale (1806–74) was an English civil servant, historian and economist appointed Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford in 1837. These volumes, first published in 1841, co
George Combe (1788–1858) was an influential British phrenologist. These volumes, first published in 1840, contain Combe’s account of a phrenological lecture tour he undertook in the United States betw
Charles Astor Bristed (1820–74) was an American scholar and author who graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1845 and published his experiences at Cambridge in 1852. This text documents his dai
Boucher de Perthes (1788–1868) argued that humans lived in the Pleistocene period. He claimed to have discovered flint tools and human bones during excavations in the Somme Valley. Contemporaries doub
This two-volume book, originally published in German in 1824, was revised, corrected and enlarged for this 1830 English translation. Carl Otfried Muller (1797–1840) was a pioneering scholar of ancient
Grace Book B, in two volumes, covers the years from 1488 to 1544. This transcription was first published in 1903–5 with an introduction by Mary Bateson of Newnham College which explains the terminolog
The celebrated classicist Richard Bentley (1662–1742) was elected Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1700. These two volumes of his correspondence, first published in 1842 and here reissued as a
The symposium, paid for by the US Department of Energy, explored relationships between structure and function in natural biological tissues, and in materials that have been designed to mimic either th
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65) was a distinguished Irish mathematician who worked in the fields of classical mechanics, optics and algebra, as well as in physics and astronomy. Hamilton was the
This two-volume set, originally published in 1862, gives a year-by-year commentary on the operas, ballets, singers and dancers popular in London from 1830 to 1859. It’s author, music critic of The Ath
This three-volume book, first published in 1841, originated in a journal written by the music critic Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to ‘illustrate the present state of theatrical, orc
Thirty seven papers are gathered here, from the Actinides 2008--Basic Science, Applications and Technology Symposium, held in March 2008 at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francis
The remarkable and durable institution of the International Settlement allowed the British to report in detail on political and economic matters in Shanghai and China. This collection of primary docum
Proceedings from an international symposium held in San Francisco, California, in April 2007. Fifty-one contributions are organized into sections on dielectric materials, metallization and atomic laye
An April 2007 symposium explored the deliberate introduction and manipulation of defects and impurities in order to engineer desired properties in semiconductor materials and devices. Ashok (The Penns
These proceedings from the November 2006 symposium describe current trends, requirements and recent developments in electronic materials for applications in wireless (including RF, microwave, millimet
The 25 papers report on developments in high-pressure material research since the previous Society conference in 1997. Among the areas they consider are the synthesizing new superhard materials, chemi
Advanced Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises contains 50 units of varied exercises to provide students with additional practice of the language they have studied in Advanced Grammar in Use Second e
These proceedings of the symposium held November and December 2005 include material on interband and intersubband transitions in semiconductor, including II-V, IV, and II-VI in terms of materials and
In these proceedings from the November-December 2005 symposium, contributors present their research in combinatory and high-throughput approaches, complex materials and device systems. This interdisci
