Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach breaks significance tests down for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguistic analysis, promoting a visual approach to understanding the performance of tests with real data, and demonstrating how to derive new confidence intervals and tests.

This book investigates the historical and functional significance of Stonemasons' marks—symbols inscribed on individual stone blocks—as a communicative practice within the architectural and construction industries.

Explores what kind of stories emerge from classical epic when similes are front and center. Combines the interdisciplinary field of embodied cognition with literary analyses of Classical epic similes to show how the distinctive themes of an individual poem emerge from the experiences that similes create.

In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period, including large-scale analyses of the record of the circulation of Chinese texts in Japan. He also traces the hidden history of Pu Songling's Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio) in Japan.

The new edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on stress and health, moving beyond the former deficit model to a resource growth model, and examines all aspects of the topic, from how the external world and the impact of technology makes demands upon individuals.

From students and teachers to politicians and journalists, who hasn't come across a tale of plagiarism these days? In Strikingly Similar, discover the history and psychology of famous and lesser-known incidents of appropriation, as well as the changes in cultural attitudes and the under-explored topic of unconscious plagiarism.

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.