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  • The Last Warlord

    The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re

    by Brian Glyn Williams ...
    The Last Warlord tells the story of the brotherhood forged in the mountains of Afghanistan between elite American Green Berets and Dostum that is told in the movie 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the HorsesoldiersThe Last Warlord tells the spellbinding story of the legendary Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, a larger-than-life figure who guided US Special Forces to victory over the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Language, Hegemony and the European Union

    Re-examining ‘Unity in Diversity’

    by Glyn Williams, Gruffudd Williams ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book critically examines the European Union’s “Unity in Diversity” mantra with regard to language. It uses a theoretical framework based on hegemony both as a system and as a relationship. Operating within sociolinguistics, the book replaces the notion of ideology in poststructuralist thought with that of hegemony. The authors argue that forging unity across language communities contradicts ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Naturalists at Sea

    Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin

    by Glyn Williams ...
    On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world.   This ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Geographies of Developing Areas

    The Global South in a Changing World

    by Glyn Williams, Paula Meth, Katie Willis ...
    Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to poverty, this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Sociolinguistics

    A Sociological Critique

    by Glyn Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociolinguistics
    Originally published in 1992. This provocative and controversial book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to the philosophical roots of the study of language in society, it argues that they lie in the consensual attitude to society derived from eighteenth and nineteenth-century social thought. The leading figures in the field are ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Social Theory and Language

    The Construction of Meaning

    by Glyn Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.//The book posits that theory conditions how objects are constructed and in turn the meanings allocated to them and explores the implications for the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Pacific Exploration

    Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle

    by Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe, Glyn Williams ...
    Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands – and tested all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Oxford Textbook of Shared Decision Making in Healthcare

    by Glyn Elwyn, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Adrian Edwards ...
    Series series Oxford Textbook
    Healthcare systems around the world are placing increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making, with many countries having shared decision making as a central theme in their healthcare policy developments. The concept of shared decision making (SDM) in healthcare is simple: clinicians and patients work together when solving problems and making ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • The Knowledge Economy, Language and Culture

    by WILLIAMS, Glyn ...
    The world is being reshaped by fundamental changes deriving from globalisation and the shift from modernity to late modernity. At the heart of these changes is the knowledge economy. Work in the knowledge economy operates quite differently than in the industrial economy in that it is highly dependent on communication and language. This book considers how language and culture are relevant to the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Inferno in Chechnya

    The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings

    by Brian Glyn Williams ...
    In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book to answer this riddle by tracing the roots of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Lost Musicians

    by Glyn Jones, William Heinesen ...
    This is a new translation by W. Glyn Jones of William Heinesen’s masterpiece and one of the most important Scandinavian novels of the 20th century. Music is at the heart of this book. The devotion to it of a group of amateur musicians forming the Boman Quartet prevents a series of dramatic events from turning into heart-rending tragedy. Music enables each of the musicians to rise above his own ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Crimean Tatars

    From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest

    by Brian Glyn Williams ...
    The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands of Crimean Tatars clashed with pro-Russian militiamen in Simferopol, while Moscow has in turn stoked fears of jihadi terrorism among the overwhelmingly Muslim Tatars as retrospective justification for its invasion. The key thread in this book is the ... Read more

    $57.59 USD