Most of England consists of rolling hills, but it is more mountainous in the north with a chain of low mountains, the Pennines, dividing east and west. The dividing line between terrain types is usually indicated by the Tees-Exe line. There is also an area of flat, low-lying marshland ...
landscapes of postcolonial London are regeneratedand transformed by South Asians, who, “though united by belief, are nonethe-less divided along national, ethnic and sectarian lines” (Nasser 2003: 9). InBritain’s “second city” of Birmingham, the largest group of 80,000 SouthAsian Muslims i...
what I have seen, native speaker is usually inferred to mean a citizen of one of the Big 5 countries, with a passport from that country, whose native language, or the language spoken most commonly at home and in school, was English. It is one of the selection criteria that ...
In the transportation field, many American cities build mixed-traffic downtown streetcars and beam with pride if they get 4,000 riders per weekday. Often this mentality overrides any attempt to provide services to city residents: thus, the streetcar in Detroit is not integrated with the city’s...
related to geography, population density and level of urbanization. The single most important thing that IQ does not explain is why the scientific Revolution took place among Europeans, not among northeast Asians who have at least as high average IQ as whites. I will leave that issue for a se...