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12 Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond13 The Continuing Need for New Approaches to Social Class Analysis in Sociolinguistics; 14 Concord and Conflict in the Speech Community; 15 The Joy of Sociolinguistic Fieldwork; Afterword, with a Poem by Rachel Jeantel; Index

"With the passing of the Volstead Act in 1920, the U.S. Congress opened the floodgates on a tidal wave of organized crime and corruption unprecedented in the long history of law-breaking. Through intimidation and outright mahyem, the Mob operated with near-total impunity throughout the 1920s and early '30s. Countless murders and other crimes were never prosecuted or were thrown out of court through the corruption and pay-offs endemic in Chicago and its notorious suburb of Cicero. After the repeal of Prohibition, the families who took over crime in Chicago have continued to wield an insidious control over the legal and political machinations of the Windy City up to the present day. John Hughes chronicles the history of this violent and colorful collection of psychopaths, from Al Capone to Sam Giancana and on to the modern, more corporate, but just as powerful bosses of Chicago's Mob."--Page 4 of cover

Berkeley claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense. Roberts argues that understanding the basic connection between Berkeley's philosophy requires that we develop a better understanding of the principle components of his positive metaphyics

Abstract
This article offers a study of Thomas Hobbes's reading of Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historiographer of the 1st century bc whom Hobbes called "the greatest antiquary perhaps that ever was." After offering a comparison of the works of Thucydides (often regarded as Hobbes's greatest classical model) and Diodorus, the article traces the reception of Diodorus' work in early modern England and examines Diodorus' strong influence on two principal works, De Homine and Behemoth. Early human histories in the first books of Diodorus' Bibliotheke Historike ('Historical Library), including anthropological and cosmological narratives, are a recurrent feature of Hobbes's focus, and a certain subversiveness animates Hobbes's use of Diodorus and underpins his critique of contemporary theological and political structures. One result of this research is to suggest a greater place for Diodorus in Hobbes's intellectual world than previously realised, alongside a strong appreciation for Diodorus across multiple learned discourses in the pre-modern period.