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Vagueness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Williamson, Timothy / Williamson Timo / Williamson, Timo, PUBLISHER: Routledge, "Vagueness" provides the first comprehensive examination of a topic of increasing importance in metaphysics and the philosophy of logic and language. Timothy Williamson traces the history of this philosophical problem from discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece to modern formal approaches such as fuzzy logic. He illustrates the problems with views which have taken the position that standard logic and formal semantics do not apply to vague language, and defends the controversial realistic view that vagueness is a kind of ignorance--that there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we cannot know which one it is.

Crossword Companion

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Curtis, Stephen / Manser, Martin, PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Classics, The Wordsworth Reference Library includes language dictionaries, language guides, historical references, and much more. This popular series covers everything from the familiar and practical to the extraordinary and outrageous.

Adversary Politics and Land: The Conflict Over Land and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cox, Andrew W., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The focus of the book is a discussion of the adversary basis of party politics in Britain and its inimical impact on viable land policies since the Second World War. Particular emphasis is placed on the scope for, and basis of policy initiation by Conservative and Labour governments in the face of the cumulative social, economic, bureaucratic and political constraints which impinge on the policy-making process. Dr Cox argues that these constraints leave only a relatively limited room for manoeuvres by governments and that most of the post-war policies of Conservative and Labour governments have been initiated in ignorance of these constraints. As a consequence, post-war policies have failed in implementation either by generating property speculation or by hindering urban development.

The Circus of Words: Acrobatic Anagrams, Parading

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lederer, Richard / Morice, Dave, PUBLISHER: Chicago Review Press, Language skills will fly through the air with the greatest of ease as kids join in The Circus of Words. Children of all ages are delighted by anagrams, palindromes, acrostics, alliteration, riddles, and puns, yet few books on wordplay are addressed to middle-schoolers. This creative and challenging activity book shows kids how to juggle letters to become ringmasters of wordplay. "The Shrinking Spotlight" shows how larger words become smaller words when certain letters are removed. "Clown Cars" introduces the idea of words hiding within words, and "The Acro Bat" and "Silver Spoonerisms" show off letter clusters that change from one word to another. The whole bandwagon is here, enabling kids, who are natural language enthusiasts, to cavort through that endless entertainment, the English language.

Teach Yourself Brazilian Portuguese Complete Course (Book

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tyson-Ward, Sue / Tyson-Ward Sue, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill, Bestselling language courses From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly. "Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including: " Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises Step-by-step guide to pronunciation Practical vocabulary Regular and irregular verb tables Plenty of practice exercises and answers Bilingual glossary "The new editions also feature: " Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout Self-assessment quizzes to test progress Website suggestions to take language study further

Teach Yourself Dutch Complete Course (Book Only)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Quist, Gerdi / Strik, Dennis / Quist Gerdi, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill, Bestselling language courses From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly. "Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including: " Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises Step-by-step guide to pronunciation Practical vocabulary Regular and irregular verb tables Plenty of practice exercises and answers Bilingual glossary "The new editions also feature: " Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout Self-assessment quizzes to test progress Website suggestions to take language study further Acquista Ora

Flareup of Twosomes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pearlman, Bill / Jacob, Jim, PUBLISHER: La Alameda Press, This web of poems of longing digs within raw character: Orpheus and Mr. Lucky in slow tango as the heart spins on a table under hot lamplight. These are not love poems but reflection upon reflection of what we suffer lovingly. Pearlman writes into and out of a language of drama and wry belief. His poems are turbulent contemplations???sources of prayer and grit and flinging the crutch into the sky. They join the inner salt of need with a sweet leaven of hope redeemed in the midnight hour.

Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Washington Matthews, PUBLISHER: General Books LLC, NA Acquista Ora

I See a Voice: Deafness, Language and the Senses--A

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ree, Jonathan, PUBLISHER: Metropolitan Books, A groundbreaking study of deafness, by a philosopher who combines the scientific erudition of Oliver Sacks with the historical flair of Simon Schama. There is nothing more personal than the human voice, traditionally considered the expression of the innermost self. But what of those who have no voice of their own and cannot hear the voices of others? In this tour de force of historical narrative, Jonathan Ree tells the astonishing story of the deaf, from the sixteenth century to the present. Ree explores the great debates about deafness between those who believed the deaf should be made to speak and those who advocated non-oral communication. He traces the botched attempts to make language visible, through such exotic methods as picture writing, manual spellings, and vocal photography. And he charts the tortuous progress and final recognition of sign systems as natural languages in their own right.

Rescued by C#

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wright, Charles, PUBLISHER: OnWord Press, Learn the basics and gain the ability to master the new C# programming language with this complete book. The new C# programming language from Microsoft combines many of the object-oriented programming concepts and syntax of C++ with the ease of programming offered by Visual Basic. This book will teach you to master C# programming in the.Net programming environment and the new Common Language Runtime. No programming experience is needed to get started with Rescued by C#, as this book teaches C# as a first programming language without using the parallels to C++ and Visual Basic to explain the constructs. You will first get an introduction to programming concepts and then jump into C# class early in the book. After learning about classes, readers then explore other C# programming concepts such as functions, structures, exceptions, and arrays. Whether you are new to programming or have some background in program and application development, C# is a new world of programming just waiting for you

The Deer on Mount Ranier

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hanson, Anders, PUBLISHER: SandCastle, - Appropriate size type, moderate spacing between words and lines of text - Familiar to less familiar topics and contents - Some new concepts or ideas - Variety of simple and complex sentences - Text provides significant information - Natural oral language with descriptive language - Some challenging vocabulary - Full range of punctuation - Photographs and illustrations provide moderate support of text and enhance understanding of content - Variety of text layouts and type styles - Multiple lines of text - Innovative mix of nonfiction and fiction in each book - Full-color photographs - Full-color illustrations - Rhyming Riddle - Glossary - Word List

Leatherface

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dudley, Ernest, PUBLISHER: Ulverscroft Large Print, Leatherface is the sobriquet earned by John Neville, the highwayman who haunted the Dover Road. Swashbuckling action is set against city taverns and roadside inns, and played out amongst rogues, the Bow Street Runners, cheats and gamblers - not forgetting the Drury Lane actress, Royall Demarest, and the notorious pickpocket, George Barrington, both of whom come under Leatherface's strange spell.

Odd Botany

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moeckel, Thorpe, PUBLISHER: Silverfish Review Press, Poetry. "Thorpe Moeckel takes in the gorgeous, complex natural world that surrounds us, and which we too often ignore. He adds our goofy and often-painful culture. And then he shows us that language is capable of a more expressive response to these things than most of us ever thought possible."-David Young. "Thorpe Moeckel is litanist, pilgrim, sensualist, beseecher, explorer, and connoisseur of the heart's underbrush and waterways. ODD BOTANY gives us a language of plentitude and paradox that's 'rambunctious on the tongue'-pop-culturally savvy, intensely lyric, and capable of an incomparably delicate tensility"-Lisa Russ Spaar.

Dusty Angel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blumenthal, Michael, PUBLISHER: BOA Editions, Dusty Angel Michael Blumenthal The winner of the Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry, Dusty Angel is the work of a poet at the pinnacle of his considerable talent. Blumenthal's themes of love, lust, longing and loss resonate throughout this collection in poems that are remarkable for their keen social and personal observations and perfectly-pitched language.

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar: With Sociolinguistic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Alexander, Ronelle, PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Grammar analyzes and clarifies the complex, dynamic language situation in the former Yugoslavia. Addressing squarely the issues connected with the splintering of Serbo-Croatian into component languages, this volume provides teachers and learners with practical solutions and highlights the differences among the languages as well as the communicative core that they all share. The first book to cover all three components of the post-Yugoslav linguistic environment, this reference manual features: - Thorough presentation of the grammar common to Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, with explication of all the major differences - Examples from a broad range of spoken language and literature - New approaches to accent and clitic ordering, two of the most difficult points in BCS grammar - Order of grammar presentation in chapters 1-16 keyed to corresponding lessons in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, a Textbook - "Sociolinguistic commentary" explicating the cultural and political context within which Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian function and have been defined - Separate indexes of the grammar and sociolinguistic commentary, and of all words discussed in both Acquista Ora

The Power of Language: Selected Proceedings from the Second

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Castillo-Speed, Lillian / Reforma / Garza de Cortes, Oralia, PUBLISHER: Libraries Unlimited, For the first time, an authoritative compendium of collective thought and experience has been created to form a powerful standard for Spanish-language-oriented library services. This selection of 20 papers is the one resource to turn to when it comes to establishing or revising your current library policies and collection development guidelines as well as creating an empowering vision for the future. An indispensable tool for librarians, library staff, faculty and students of library science, and everyone who has an obligation to provide quality library services to speakers of Spanish

Enigmas and Arrivals: An Anthology of Commonwealth Writing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Niven, Alastair / Schmidt, Michael, PUBLISHER: Carcanet Press Ltd., To mark ten years of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Alastair Niven, until recently Arts Council of England Literature Director and now Literature Director of the British Council, and Michael Schmidt assemble an anthology of work by some of the new and established writers who have been recognized by the Prize. Enigmas & Arrivals (its title borrowed from V. S. Naipaul) is a distinctive volume, a resource for general readers of fiction and for teachers and students of English language literatures. Here some of the best writing of a decade is presented, many of the writers choosing the work themselves. The editors provide an introduction and brief biographical and bibliographical notes.

Thought Without Language

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weiskrantz, L. / Weiskrantz, Lawrence, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Does thought depend crucially on language, as some philosophers maintain, or can abstract reasoning and other faculties exist in the absence of language? This voume, based on a Fyssen Foundation symposium held in Versailles in April , addresses this crucial question in a new way, bringing together experts on non-verbal thinking in adults, in pre-linguistic infants, and in animals. The nineteen chapters, discussion and editorial comment represent an impressive body of material, shedding new light on many aspects of the problem. Topics covered include the role of the non-verbal right cerebral hemisphere in humans; the investigation of non-verbal aspects of various categories of cognition (such as abstract reasoning, spatial awareness, and pattern recognition); evidence for cognition without concious awareness; and neurological and developmental evidence. The concluding chapter is a personal account by a gifted but dyslexic mathematician of the nature of his handicap and the non-vebal reasoning that he has developed to cope with this. various

The Dragon and the Pearl

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lin, Jeannie, PUBLISHER: Harlequin, Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty; the ultimate seductress. Now she lives quietly alone--until the most ruthless warlord in the region comes and steals her away.... Li Tao lives life by the sword, and is trapped in the treacherous, lethal world of politics. The alluring Ling Suyin is at the center of the web. He must uncover her mystery without falling under her spell--yet her innocence calls out to him. How cruel if she, of all women, can entrance the man behind the legend....

Weird Science: A Conflatation of Art and Science

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hofmann, Irene / Grabner, Michelle / Wittkopp, Gregory, PUBLISHER: Cranbrook Art Museum, Art meets science -- and engages the recent controversies of science studies -- in work by contemporary artists Mark Dion, Gregory Green, Margaret Honda, and Andrea Zittel. Using scientific language, strategies and protocols, each of these projects focuses on a different area of exploration (natural science, nuclear physics, zoology, and genetic engineering), and investigates the influence, authority, and effects of science. David Wilson, Director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, writes on the 17th century scholar, inventor, curator, and early progenitor of 'weird science', Athanasius Kircher; exhibition curator Irene Hofmann places these works into the context of each artist's career.

Essays Politic and Moral, and Essays Moral and Theological

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tuvill, Daniel, PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press, These two sets of essays by the seventeenth-century clegyman Tuvil illustrate literary tastes and fashions of the time and offer examples of such popular genres as the sermon, the resolve, and the meditation.

Provinces

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Milosz, Czeslaw / Hass, Robert / Miosz, Czesaw, PUBLISHER: Ecco Press, Begun in the winter of and completed in the spring of , Treatise on Poetry is a brilliant meditative poem fully expressive of the powers that have made Milosz one of our greatest writers. Expertly translated, the poem is divided into four parts -- Europe at the turn of the century, the condition of Polish culture between the two world wars, the harsh reality of World War II, and the role of the poet in the postwar world. Here Milosz addresses the failure of early-20th-century Polish poetry. With vast historical sweep and in language that enables readers to see "as if in a flash of summer lighting", Milosz offers a fascinating account of the mysterious art of poetry.

Computer Arithmetic and Verilog HDL Fundamentals

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cavanagh, Joseph, PUBLISHER: CRC Press, This book presents the design of computer arithmetic circuits for four arithmetic operations using three number representations. The circuits are designed using algorithms or traditional design techniques and implemented using Verilog hardware description language (HDL) in the SILOS simulation environment. For each design method, the text illustrates the underling theory, examples of use, organization of the arithmetic function, logic design of the circuit, and Verilog HDL implementation. Verilog projects, including the design and test bench modules, as well as outputs and waveforms obtained from the simulator, illustrate the complete functional operation.

The Tortilla Factory

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Paulsen, Gary, PUBLISHER: Hampton-Brown Books, In simple and eloquent language, the author pays tribute to a cycle of life -- from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seed.

Paradise Lost

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Milton, John, PUBLISHER: Nuvision Publications, Epic poem in blank verse, one of the late works by John Milton, considered by many scholars to be one of the greatest poems of the English language, Paradise Lost tells the biblical story of the fall from grace of Adam and Eve

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