Author: Andrew Wilson (Editor); Dawn Archer (Editor); Paul
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: computers, language, linguistics, practical, studies, world, corpus
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $71.50
ISBN-10: 9042018364
ISBN-13: 9789042018365

This volume contains a selection of the papers delivered at the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference, held at Lancaster University in April 2003. The papers selected address a wide range of world languages - Basque, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Maltese, Russian, Spanish, and Slovene. Both synchronic and diachronic studies are included, as well as studies of learner language. In addition to mainstream linguistic analyses of phonetics, vocabulary, syntax, semantics, and rhetoric, application areas covered in the volume include financial forecasting, cross-cultural research, c

Author: Guest Editor Nick HornbySeries Editor Benjamin Sc
Publisher: Da Capo
Keywords: writing, pop, jazz, rock, country, finest, music, year, capo
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2001-10
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0306810662
ISBN-13: 9780306810664

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001 The Year’s Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More Welcome to the latest volume in the series that celebrates the year’s best writing about music and its culture, as edited by Nick Hornby, the creator of the most famously music-obsessed hero in contemporary fiction. Hornby has selected pieces on a dazzling array of topics from more than a hundred sources--remarkable essays by journalists and authors who are as serious about writing as they are about music. Featuring the smartest, edgiest, richest, funniest, and just plain best

Author: Katy Gray Brown (Editor) David Boersema (Editor)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Keywords: value, inquiry, book, peace, nonviolence, political, dimensions, spiritual
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2006-07-31
List price: $71.50
ISBN-10: 904202061X
ISBN-13: 9789042020610

This book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and political dimensions of nonviolence to issues of justice and values and proposals for action and change. Contents: Acknowledgments Katy GRAY BROWN: Introduction: Beyond Safe Ground Part One: Spiritual Dimensions Jerald RICHARDS: Spirituality, Religion, Violence, and Nonviolence Joseph KUNKEL: The Spiritual Side of Peacemaking William C. GAY: Apocalyptic Thinking versus Nonviolent Action

Authors:Marysa, editor Navarro, Gwendolyn, editor Mink, Wilm
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: history, women, companion, reader
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1999-10
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0618001824
ISBN-13: 9780618001828

The most inclusive book to date on U.S. women’s collective history! A landmark work, The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History, gathers together more than 400 articles to offer a diverse, rich, and often neglected panorama of the nation’s past. Written by more than 300 contributors, drawn from various areas of expertise, these narrative and interpretive entries "effectively cover five centuries of women’s experiences" (Bloomsbury Review). Here are articles on cowgirls and child care, on the daily lives of single women and the changing notions of motherhood, o

Author: Carl Q. Rousseau (Editor) Peter Grant (Editor)
Publisher: ASTM
Keywords: technical, publication, stp, special, astm, structures, theory, practice, composite
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 0803128622
ISBN-13: 9780803128620

This comprehensive new ASTM publication reflects the latest worldwide research in composite structures technology, and specifically focuses on structural certification and qualification concerns. 29 peer-reviewed papers, written by academia, government, and industry experts, are divided into the following sections: ? Structural Damage Tolerance ? Skin-Stringer Behavior ? Rotorcraft and Propeller Structural Qualification Issues ? Bolted Joint Analysis ? Test Methods ? Strength Prediction ? Environmental Effects This publication will be of interest to ? Engineers and Designers involved with Comp

Authors:Editor, Charles Ganelin, Editor, Howard Mancing,
Publisher: Purdue University Pre
Keywords: performance, spanish, theory, text, comedia, golden
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1557530866
ISBN-13: 9781557530868

Drawing on the groundbreaking Spanish scholarship and editions of earlier generations and relying on research conducted in Spanish archives, this pioneering group of English-speaking scholars offers a new treatment of familiar material. The editors yoke together widely varying critical practices, including incisive New Critical readings and far-reaching explorations that draw on the most current European critical thought. In addition to these more strictly literary studies, there are interdisciplinary essays focusing on seventeenth- and twentieth-century reception and the social makeup of the

Author: Bansi Pandit (Editor) Lise Vail (Editor)
Publisher: Motilal Banarsida
Keywords: utplaladeva, karika, pratyabhijna, isvara
Number of Pages: 61
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8120817850
ISBN-13: 9788120817852

This book is considered one of the foremost works of the Pratybhijna Darsana, the philosoophy of Self Recognition, an important school of Kashmir Saivism. Written in the tenth century, it presents core arguments in support of a comprehensive monistic ontology as well as refutations of and disputations with Buddhist, Vedantic, and ritualistic traditions that were current at the time. It is a fundamental text of the non-dual Saivism of Kashmir and also a foundation for Saiva and Sakta Tantrism. Furthermore, it has appeal for the seeker: As he himself says, Utpaladeva composed this work so that a