Partington has produced an attractive and useful introduction to the field of applied corpuslinguistics, a field that has been around for 40 years (since the Brown corpus) but is only nowcoming into its own in the United States. The volume is attractive for three main reasons: it isclearly and pleasantly written, it quotes extensively and appropriately from the earlier general andapplied linguistics literature, and it contains an impressive range of examples consisting ofconcordance lines followed by commentary and analysis.