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  • LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING
    ROSS, STEVEN J.
    Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding quantitative longitudinal research and sampling methods in second and foreign language learning. This volume will provide readers with exemplary longitudinal studies of language learning outcomes, as well as an overview of widely used...

    $979.00

  • MISUNDERSTANDING IN SOCIAL LIFE
    JULIANE HOUSE / GABRIELE KASPER / STEVEN ROSS
    Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participan...

    $679.00

  • AMERICAN WAR PLANS 1945-1950
    STEVEN T. ROSS
    In late 1945, it became clear that the Soviet Union was an aggressive power. American military planners began to develop strategies to deal with the frightening possibility of a war with the Soviet Union. This work examines those plans. ...

    $1,179.00

  • AMERICAN WAR PLANS, 1890-1939
    STEVEN T. ROSS
    By the close of the 19th century, the United States was no longer a continental power, but had become a nation with interests that spanned the globe from the Caribbean to China. Consequently, the country faced a new set of strategic concerns, ranging from enforcing the Monroe Doctrine to defending the Philippines. As a result of the United States' new geostrategic environment, ...

    $1,279.00

  • FROM FLINTLOCK TO RIFLE
    STEVEN T. ROSS
    This is a comprehensive study of the major changes in infantry tacticts from the time of Frederick the Great to the beginning of what many see as the era of modern war, in the 1860s. Ross lays social and political change side by side with technical change. He argues that the French revolution, due to the fervour and loyalty it inspired in its participants, led to huge citizen ...

    $1,179.00

  • ROMAN EDESSA
    STEVEN K. ROSS
    Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are: * the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa * Edessene religion * the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity * the myth of an exchange o...

    $1,179.00

  • AMERICAN WAR PLANS, 1941-1945
    STEVEN ROSS
    This is an examination of major American and Anglo-American war plans. Rather than discuss the history of planning, Ross considers the execution of the plans, compares the execution with the expectations of the planners and attempts to explain the differences. ...

    $1,259.00