1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002005270403321

Autore

Smith, Geoffrey

Titolo

Crustacea / Geoffrey Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : McMillan, 1909

Descrizione fisica

p. [1]-217 ; 22 cm

Collana

The Cambridge Natural History , Crustacea ; 4

Disciplina

595.3

Locazione

DAGEN

Collocazione

61 II A.4/015.7

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141792003321

Titolo

Does history matter? : making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand / / edited by Klaus Newmann and Gwenda Tavan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, ACT, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-921536-94-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 pages)

Collana

Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)

Disciplina

323.63

Soggetti

Citizenship - Australia

Citizenship - New Zealand

Refugees - Government policy - Australia

Refugees - Government policy - New Zealand

Australia Emigration and immigration Government policy

New Zealand Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; 1. Gone with hardly a trace: deportees in immigration policy; Activism against deportation by Pacific Islanders; Immigration control and deportation; The long reach of the deportation power in Australian law; Mandatory deportation and removal; Conclusion; 2. The unfinished business of Indigenous citizenship in Australia and New Zealand; Crisis management and political distortion of the past; Indigenous citizenship as unfinished business; Australia turns a new page: the apology

Australia spurns a new page: the interventionThe mythology of 'nationhood' in New Zealand; Conclusion: the politics of history in comparative perspective; 3. Oblivious to the obvious? Australian asylum-seeker policies and the use of the past; 'Boat people' (I); 'Boat people' (II); Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 4. 'A modern-day concentration camp': using history to make sense of Australian immigration detention centres; The policy and practice of immigration detention; Using history to make sense of immigration detention centres; Aboriginal reserves; Quarantine stations

Enemy-alien internment campsConclusion; Acknowledgments; 5. Refugees between pasts and politics: sovereignty and memory in the Tampa crisis; The old and the new of the Tampa crisis; Sovereignty and refugees (I); Sovereignty and memories (I); Sovereignty and memories (II); Sovereignty and refugees (II); Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 6. Looking back and glancing sideways: refugee policy and multicultural nation-building in New Zealand; New Zealand's 'fine record of humanitarian assistance'; 'We are all immigrants'; Apologising for the past; Conclusion; Acknowledgments

7. Testing times: the problem of 'history' in the Howard Government's Australian citizenship testThe Howard reforms: return to a cultural-normative model of citizenship; The citizenship test as a form of collective memory making (and forgetting); Historical analogies: citizenship policy in 'assimilationist Australia'; Policy constraints and the political uses of immigration history; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Afterword; Select bibliography



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791330003321

Autore

Straus Jane

Titolo

The blue book of grammar and punctuation : an easy-to-use guide with clear rules, real-world examples, and reproducible quizzes / / Jane Straus, Lester Kaufman, authors ; edited with new material by Tom Stern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-79021-9

Edizione

[Eleventh edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Classificazione

EDU029020

Altri autori (Persone)

KaufmanLester

SternTom

Disciplina

428.2

Soggetti

English language - Grammar

English language - Punctuation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Grammar; Finding Nouns, Verbs, and Subjects; Definitions; Noun; Verb; Subject; Subject-Verb Agreement; Singular vs. plural verbs; Finding subjects before phrases beginning with of; With or, either/or, and neither/nor; Two singular subjects; One singular and one plural subject; With such portions as percent, fraction, part, etc.; With here or there; With distances, periods of time, sums of money, etc.; With collective nouns; The subjunctive mood; Clauses and Phrases; Definitions

ClauseIndependent clause; Dependent clause; Phrase; Pronouns; Definition: Pronoun; Subject pronouns; As the subject of the sentence; Renaming the subject; When who refers to a personal pronoun; Object pronouns; Subject and verb agreement with who, that, and which; Who vs. Whom; He/him method; Common whom pitfall; Whoever vs. Whomever; Who, That, Which; Who, that, and which with people, groups, and things; That with essential clauses; Which with nonessential clauses; When which can be used with essential clauses; Adjectives and Adverbs; Definitions; Adjective; Adverb; When to add -ly



Sense verbs: taste, smell, look, feel, etc.Good vs. well; Well as an adjective when referring to health; Comparisons, such as -er vs. -est and more vs. most; This, that, these, and those; Prepositions; Definition: preposition; Ending a sentence with a preposition; As, as if, as though, the way; Of vs. have; Different from vs. different than; In vs. into; Effective Writing; Overuse of there is, there are, it is, it was, etc.; Double negatives; Parallel construction; Dangling modifiers; Misplaced modifiers; Fragments; Chapter 2 Punctuation; Periods; With complete sentences

With abbreviations at the end of a sentenceReplacing periods with question marks and exclamation points; Commas; To separate three or more items; To separate adjectives; With two independent clauses; Run-on sentences or comma splices; Joined by connectors such as and, or, but, etc.; When the subject does not appear in front of the second verb; With introductory words; To set off interrupting expressions; With names; With dates; With city and state; With Jr. and Sr.; With degrees and titles; Starting a sentence with a dependent clause vs. an independent clause

With nonessential words, clauses, and phrasesWith quotations; To introduce or interrupt quotations; Following quotations; To separate statements from questions; To separate contrasting parts of a sentence; With certain introductory words; When followed by a series of items; When the series of items ends with etc.; Semicolons; To replace a period in two closely linked sentences; With such words as namely, however, therefore, etc., when they; introduce a complete sentence; With sufficiently identified noun; To avoid confusion where commas already exist; With sentences that have multiple clauses

Colons

Sommario/riassunto

A revised and updated new edition of the bestselling workbook and grammar guide The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to English grammar, punctuation, and usage. This user-friendly resource includes simple explanations of grammar, punctuation, and usage; scores of helpful examples; dozens of reproducible worksheets; and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to students of all ages. Appropriate for virtually any age range, this authoritative guide makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. This updated Elevent