New Releases by Rebecca Jones

An essential, comprehensive guide for all who are interested in learning the Portuguese language and mastering its complexities, Portuguese: A Reference Manual supplements the phonetic and grammatical explanations offered in basic textbooks. While the Manual focuses on Brazilian Portuguese, it incorporates European Portuguese variants and thus provides a more complete description of the language. Accessible to non-linguists and novice language learners, as well as informative for instructors of Portuguese and specialists in other languages, this guide incorporates the Orthographic Accord (in effect since 2009–2010), which attempts to standardize Portuguese orthography. The Manual reflects the language as it is currently taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels by providing detailed explanations of the sound and writing systems and the grammar of the principal Portuguese dialects. A reference guide rather than a textbook, the Manual also provides extensive verb charts, as well as comparisons of Portuguese with English and Spanish.

Green Harvest explores the ideas and practices that have shaped organic farming and gardening in Australia from the interwar years to the present day. It reveals that Australian organic farming and gardening societies were amongst the first in the world, being active as early as the 1940s. In what way does human health depend upon the natural environment? Green Harvest traces this idea through four themes of Australian organic farming and gardening – soil, chemical free, ecological well-being and back to the land – each illustrated with a case study profiling an Australian organic farmer or gardener. Personalities in Australian organic gardening, such as Jackie French and Peter Bennett, talk about organic growing. The book also features extracts from early organic magazines and interviews with current organic growers, including banana and macadamia farmers, managers of outback sheep stations, dairy farmers and self-sufficiency gardeners. All of these tell the story of Australian organic farming and gardening: past, present and future.

How much love exists between a Father and his daughter? More than can ever be imagined the sad part is often we don’t realize the depth of that love until their gone. Friday’s Child is a tribute to my father Glenn Goodson. Who was born on a Friday and died on a Friday. He was a lot of things: A christian, A son, a brother, a husband, a grandfather, a father-in-law, a brother-in-law, a friend, a war hero, a fireman. But most of all, he was my Daddy! I miss him and love him with all my heart.

This book is a true story about a mother and daughter who go on an "adventure" to find out the truth about an old murder that has been whispered about in the family for years. Was their grandfather/great grandfather the states witness or was he the actual murder?

A provocative look at how the Bible should define the identity of a woman and her choices about femininity.