The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this close connection between literacy trai...

How do you approach initiating a conversation?With an engaging subject, do the words come quickly and naturally?Or do you stumble and stammer, increasing your anxiety?Communication is critical in human beings. Communication is what distinguishes us, from our oldest ancestors, who initially employed sign language before having the capacity to construct lan...

This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function.This book also charts the complex mechanisms by wh...

How do you approach initiating a conversation?With an engaging subject, do the words come quickly and naturally?Or do you stumble and stammer, increasing your anxiety?Communication is critical in human beings. Communication is what distinguishes us, from our oldest ancestors, who initially employed sign language before having the capacity to construct lan...

A straightforward guide to the principles of effective fundraising operationsAn Executive Guide to Fundraising Operations provides fundraisers with easy-to-understand approaches to evaluate and address fundraising operations needs and opportunities. This guide simplifies and focuses on the analysis of problems and needs, allowing a quick return to fundraising.Provides the essential framework to improve and innovate development operationsIncludes doz...

A quick-reference guide for the management of cardiovascular disease, the Contemporary Guide to Cardiovascular Therapy™ is divided into two sections. Section 1 focuses on disease management of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, smoking cessation, the metabolic syndrome, lifestyle changes to prevent coronary artery disease (CAD), and other cardiovascular disease treatment areas. Section 2 discusses drug choices for the treatment of hypertension, angina, and dyslipidemia, as well ...

This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his original Middle English, as well as an extensive scholarly apparatus. A detailed introduction situates Chaucer's works in his life and culture and offers a guide on how to read and enjoy his language and verse for...

'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and lusty Wife of Bath. Their tales are as various as the...

New research shows that abnormal inflammation may be linked to a variety of diseases and conditions, including heart disease, cancer, asthma, diabetes, and arthritis. A diet designed to reduce and reverse inflammation can improve overall health.Idiot's Guides: The Anti-Inflammation Diet, Second Edition includes a wealth of information about how the diet works and the latest in research and testing. It offers healthy eating plans, food lists, and delicious recipes. An Assoc...

In Missionary Interests**, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions for the historical study of these zealous evangelists for their faith.** Despite their sectarian differences, both groups of missionaries shared notions of dividing the world categorically along the lines of race, status, and relative exoticism, and bo...

Maintain your focus, your productivity, and your sanity in the contemporary fundraising environmentIn Focused Fundraising: How to Raise Your Sights and Overcome Overload, accomplished nonprofit management strategists and leaders Christopher Cannon and Michael Felberbaum deliver a must-read combination of the latest mindfulness techniques and operational strategies that will equip you to succeed in an increasingly chaotic, noisy, and confusing fundraising e...

The thoroughly updated second edition of this key textbook provides an authoritative discussion of cardiovascular disease for the practicing primary care clinician. It examines a variety of disease states with emphasis on risk factors, risk estimation, and established cardiac disease. The book also explores the co-morbid conditions that surround cardiovascular disease. It includes key points, algorithms, case studies, recommendations on evidence-based practice, and summary boxes. A key res...