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  • Fabulosa!

    The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

    by Paul Baker ...
    A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019'Richly evocative and entertaining.' Guardian'A delightful read.' Tatler'An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari Bona!' AttitudePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identific... ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men

    by Paul Baker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistics
    Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinerant groups, Polari was also a means of socialising, acting out camp performances and reconstructing a shared gay identity and worldview among its speakers. This book examines the ways in which Polari was ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Masculinities and Language

    by Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes ...
    Today, the topic of gender identity is being discussed more widely than ever before. With the rise of online misogyny and in the wake of #metoo, language around masculinity and toxic masculinity merits closer examination. Accessibly written by two leading linguists, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of the debates around language and masculinity, asking how language is used to perform ... Read more

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  • Collins British Bird Identifier

    Easily Name All Species Using Only 5 Features With the 5 ID Method

    by Paul Stancliffe, Jeff Baker ...
    Collins British Bird Identifier is a revolution in bird identification. It brings together exceptional new artwork, with a unique, practical and comprehensive guide to the 5 essential features needed to identify every species of British bird.A new approach to bird identification, detailing five unique features that will definitively identify every species of British bird. The Collins British Bird ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A History of the Regular Mounted Infantry

    From Victoria's Colonial Wars to the Russian Campaign of 1919

    by Paul Baker ...
    The Mounted Infantry had a short life spanning from the mid 1880’s until disbanded in 1913. To continue the camaraderie of the corps, past surviving members formed the M.I Club and in 1936 decided to publish a short history based on Regimental records and personal reflections. An appeal elicited responses and work was begun by Major Tomlin. The manuscript was almost complete at the start of the ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis

    by Paul Baker ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Discourse
    How can you carry out discourse analysis using corpus linguistics? What research questions should I ask? Which methods should you use and when? What is a collocational network or a key cluster?Introducing the major techniques, methods and tools for corpus-assisted analysis of discourse, this book answers these questions and more, showing readers how to best use corpora in their analyses of ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

    A Multimodal Study of News Representations of Islam

    by Paul Baker, Hanna Schmück, Yufang Qian ...
    Series series Elements in Corpus Linguistics
    This Element reports on the creation and analysis of a 1.5-million-word corpus consisting of a year's worth of UK national press news articles about Islam and Muslims, published between December 2022 and November 2023. The corpus also contains 8,546 image files which have been automatically tagged using Google's Vertex AI. Analysis was carried out on three levels a) written text only, b) images ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Hello Sailor!

    The hidden history of gay life at sea

    by Paul Baker, Jo Stanley ...
    When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans.Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered ... Read more

    Was $81.99 CAD Now $72.82 CAD

  • Star Trek: Voyager Omnibus

    by Dave Baker, Paul Allor, Angel Hernandez ...
    Join Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew in four tales of adventure and intrigue! First, in Seven’s Reckoning, a chance encounter with a reptilian alien race draws Seven of Nine and the rest of the U.S.S. Voyager crew into an ancient class conflict that's on the brink of exploding into all-out war! Set during Star Trek: Voyager's amazing fourth season, Seven finds her newfound humanity in ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Outrageous!

    The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education

    by Paul Baker ...
    On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O’Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting – ‘Stop Section 28!’ – and a scuffle. The morning papers would announce: ‘Beeb Man Sits on Lesbian’.The next day Section 28 passed into law, forbidding local authorities from teaching ‘the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Finding Fame

    by Paul Baker ...
    Paul Baker has experienced many ups and downs in his life, but it's how he dealt with these moments and learned from them that really sets his story apart. He is accustomed to failure, having learned how to turn negative experiences into positive outcomes, and he continues to remain focused on his ambitions by continually setting himself new goals. Covering themes such as ambition, determination, ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD

  • Using Corpora to Analyze Gender

    by Paul Baker ...
    Corpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted and explained by human researchers.This book critically explores how corpus linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and gender by conducting a number of case studies on topics which include: directives in spoken conversations, ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD