Böcker av William A.

Creating Talent Density is a must have for educational leaders who are serious about transforming schools into positive and productive learning institutions.

A great deal of the grammatical machinery in a language is devoted to the speaker's ability to signal the temporal relations between different events and different people making it clear who is being talked about. Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar explores how different grammatical systems accomplish this.

This is a supplemental text for all sociology courses that facilitates, invigorates, and enhances student learning by teaching students to read and write effectively.

New edition of this bestselling undergraduate textbook, adopted in sociology and education departments throughout the world.

Presents the key facts up front, with sample calculations for broadband, local access, equipment, and service alternatives. This book provides a blueprint for cost reduction across major technologies - from frame relay to IP telephony to contract recommendations.

Tells a complete story about the lives of children as they grow from young preschoolers to preadolescents in Modena, Italy. The authors both explore and participate in the rich, complex history and development of the Italian early education system.

In a business world of uncertain budgets, relentless technology changes, scarce management talent, and intense production demands, theory is good, but practice sells. This book tells about practice, and helps to dissolve the negative image many CIOs have as remote, purely rational decision machines.

The chapters in this innovative book introduce the quantitative analysis of linguistic survey data with specific reference to the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS).

This book proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. This model does not reject rules in favour of language use, or reject language use in favour of rules; rather, it shows how rules can come from language as people use it.