Special Feature: The Inaugural Royal Studies Journal/Canterbury Christ Church University Book Prize Winner

The Inaugural ISMS Practice Prize Competition ISMS Practice Prize Competition

Background ISMS'S bylaws state that its purpose "... is to foster the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research, and science and technologies that improve the understanding and practice of marketing. " Note the emphasis on implementation and on practice. The Society's goals are well served by its journal, Marketing Science, and it has recognized out...

2005 MLA Sheep Prize Winner

Routine husbandry procedures, such as castration and tail docking, are known to induce pain and distress in lambs (Grant, 2004; Kent et al., 2001). This raises important welfare concerns and has attracted debate on the acceptability of such practices. The most common method of castration and tail docking involves the application of a rubber ring to the scrotum or tail, usually without anesthesi...

BAAL Book Prize 2007

This book sets forth the author‟s research on style and stylization among adolescents in urban settings. It examines how speakers in a London school draw on a variety of resources – a foreign language, stylized varieties of English, bits and pieces of media culture – in their everyday activities; the kinds of conversational inferences evoked by these practices; the ways they contribute to situa...

Theological Worlds in the United Church of Christ

BAAL Book Prize 2005

Edwards, Viv (2004) Multilingualism in the English-speaking World. Blackwell first review One of the main strengths of this book is the originality of its approach to the topic: it adopts a thematic angle, rather than the more obvious „geographical‟ approach, dealing with one country at a time. This makes for a very useful book. Also, the style is excellent and the book is readable and accessib...