Were phenomena and processes set in motion during the 19th century in the Caribbean of which we are only now becoming fully aware? This examination of the kaleidoscopic world of the Caribbean through
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This book is a detailed study of the possessive semantic space within the framework of construction grammar. Using corpus data from Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian, the book uses semantic maps to
Appropriateness is the key to persuasion: a speech can only be convincing when it takes into account the opinions of the audience and the concrete situation. But how can rhetorical theory– which like
Berkovich (U. of Haifa) and Janko (North Dakota State U.) continue their exposition of elementary parts of p-group theory, assuming that readers have already made their way through the first two volum
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Anyone involved in the study of ancient Iudaea/Palaestina and its vicinity has felt the need for a comprehensive work containing all the inscriptions in various languages found in the region. The lack
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After English, Japanese is the language for which the most research in pragmatics has been conducted, and here it is the focus of studies into the pragmatics of competence in second-language learners.
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This manual is the French translation of the second edition of UNIMARC Manual: bibliographic format published in English in 1994 and completed by 5 updates published from 1996 to 2005. This 5th French
This is the first major commentary onEuropides' Iphigenia in Tauris to appear in English in more than 65 years and does full justice to an undeservedly neglected tragedy. It sheds light on Euripides’
There has been much discussion in recent research of the alleged contradictions in Aristotle's doctrine of substance (Gk. Ousia) in the Categories and in Book Z of the Metaphysics. In contrast to othe
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Volume 13 of Reviews in Mineralogy attempts to gather together much of our knowledge of micas, the most abundant phyllosilicate, and to indicate promising areas of future research. Chapters 1-3 lay th
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The book covers fundamentals of the theory of optimal methods for solving ill-posed problems, as well as ways to obtain accurate and accurate-by-order error estimates for these methods. The methods de
This commentary on the 3rd book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of the ceremonial single combat between the rivals for Helen, Paris and Menelaus, a scene that reflects the origins of t
The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of econ
This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms
The author considers the association of Nazism with the devil in the literary works of German writers Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Rolf Hochhuth, who saw the devil as impacting Ge
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What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across diff
Expanding on his earlier books, Stuckrad applies the discursive approaches to the study of religious and cultural history. His object of study is not religion or science as a phenomenon that can be de
The art of aphorism, traced to Hippocrates, has seen its ups and downs. Once popular in German literature (there were several terms for it, largely created by specific authors) it had largely fallen i
