In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites, advertisements, press articles, speeches and lectures – Alexander interrogates how in the media, press, corporate and activist circles language is employed to argue for and propagate selected positions on the growing ecological crisis. For example, he asks: How are ecological and environmental concerns articulated in texts? What do we learn about ecological ‘problems’ through texts from differing sources? What language features accompany ecological discourse in differing contexts and registers? Attention is especially directed at where this discourse comes into contact with business, economic and political concerns.

Framing Discourse on the Environment: A Critical Discourse Approach (Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Richard Alexander

Crafts & Hobbies

Routledge

New International Business English Student's Book Klett Edition

Reference

Leo Jones

English as a Second Language

Cambridge University Press

In his memoir, My Other Life: A Combat Soldier in Vietnam, Richard Alexander tells of his experiences as a machine gunner on, and then the driver and Track Commander of, an armored personnel carrier with the Army s Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment in South Vietnam from April, 1967 to April, 1968. In relating his experiences, it s as if Alexander is remembering what happened to him in another life. He tells of the young, badly burned Viet Cong soldier who was miraculously still alive when Alexander came across him lying among the charred corpses of his buddies in a napalmed village; sitting in the driver s compartment of a personnel carrier and hoping to God that one of the rockets he just heard being fired from the nearby tree line didn t have his name on it; his young black friend from Newark, New Jersey, where race riots were taking place and personnel carriers rolling down the street on which his family lived, asking, "how does someone like you end up being in a place like this with someone like me?" My Other Life is about Alexander s growing disillusionment about the war and how the U.S. was fighting it; the ineffectual search and destroy tactics and the use of "expendable" soldiers such as himself as "bait" who, day in and day out, were sent into the heavily mined and booby-trapped jungles and rice paddies in order to lure an otherwise elusive and often unseen enemy, into fighting. And for what? It s about Alexander feeling as if his luck had finally run out when after being discharged from the hospital and assigned to base camp for the final four months of his tour, he found himself back out in the field fighting at the beginning of the Tet Offensive. My Other Life is about the unimaginable horrors of war and the lingering emotional and psychological effects fighting in the war had on Alexander. It s about the unforeseen challenges Alexander faced upon returning home. How in the eyes of many students mostly returning vets were considered traitors, murderers . . . cowards . . . baby-killers. Finally, My Other Life is about the impact the war had on Alexander s family; his mother, father, sister, and brother and the triumph of his family over a war that tried to tear them apart.

My Other Life: A Combat Soldier In Vietnam

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The Darwin Press, Inc.

Transformers for Linemen covers everything a lineworker needs to know about distribution transformers. It explains basic AC circuit concepts, transformer formulas, nameplates, pre-installation checks, single-phase connections, fusing, grounding, and load checks. Also presented are vector diagrams, delta and wye connections, phasing and paralleling banks, troubleshooting, and how to energize transformers safely. The emphasis is on overhead transformers, but padmount transformers are covered also. Color photos make learning easy. This reference is also a safety manual -- it identifies common mistakes lineworkers can make, some with severe consequences. The first half of the book explains basic principles and single-phase transformers. Some schools use these chapters to train first-year apprentices. After gaining field experience, students return for the remaining chapters that cover three-phase transformer banks.

Transformers for Linemen

Alexander Publications

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