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The Mother of Eve: As a First Language Teacher

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moerk, Ernst L. / Moerk, Ernest L., PUBLISHER: Ablex Publishing Corporation, The goals of this volume are twofold: on a general level the volume explores whether evidence for teaching and learning can be found in mother-child interactions during the course of first language acquisition and whether these processes can be objectively described; on a sublevel, the volume investigates whether the denials of frequency and reinforcement effects found in the literature withstand closer scrutiny. The findings support a teaching/learning approach to first language acquisition and demonstrate some of the major principles involved in this process.

Judgements of Value: Selected Writings on Music

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cooper, Martin / Cooper, Martin / Cooper, Dominic, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This book presents a collection of the writings of Martin Cooper, chief music critic of the Daily Telegraph ong>fromong> , a well-known broadcaster on the BBC, and author of several books and translations. Topics discussed include nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, opera, literature, philosophy, religion, and the nature of criticism.

World Hunger: A Neo-Malthusian Perspective

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kellman, Mitchell, PUBLISHER: Praeger Publishers, This book offers a broad perspective on the issue of world hunger, analyzing the long-term data on food production ong>fromong> to the present. Exploring evidence of the validity of Malthusian theory throughout history, the book documents those cases where innovations in food-producing technologies were adopted in response to population pressures and crises of hunger.

Weta The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug Statue Smaug King

Weta continues the legacy of producing finely crafted, highly detailed collectible polystone statues ong>fromong> Middle-earth. The essence of each character expertly captured in every piece. The Dragon has resided within the carved walls of stone, supreme and unchallenged in his dominion; the true King Under the Mountain.

Man Walks Into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Pete, PUBLISHER: Pan Books, In "Man Walks into a Pub," Pete Brown takes us on a journey through the amazing history of beer, ong>fromong> the first sacred sip of ancient Egyptian bouza to the last pint of lager on a Friday night. It's an extraordinary tale of yeast-obsessed monks and teetotaling prime ministers; of exploding breweries, a bear in a yellow nylon jacket, and a Canadian who changed the drinking habits of a nation. It's also the story of the rise of the British pub, ong>fromong> humble origins through an epic, thousand-year struggle to survive bad government and misguided commerce.

The Royal Line of Succession: The British Monarchy from

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ashdown, Dulcie M., PUBLISHER: Pitkin, A fully illustrated and informative look at each of the royal houses in Great Britain--ong>fromong> Anglo-Saxon monarchs through to today's royal family, the House of Windsor. Each highly detailed family tree demonstrates the connections between each King and Queen and their royal ancestors, and an explanation of the order of succession provides a valuable insight into the historic passing of the crown.

Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Braunwald, Eugene, PUBLISHER: W.B. Saunders Company, The Fifth Edition of the definitive reference on heart disease -- has been assiduously revised and updated Dr. Braunwald has added 23 new chapters and 22 renowned new contributors to bring readers the state of the art in the field of cardiology. ong>Fromong> examination and circulatory function to diseases of the heart and broader perspectives on heart disease and cardiologic practice, this classic resource remains authoritative, user-friendly, and complete.

The Balance of Power: History and Theory

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sheehan, Michael / Sheehan, M., PUBLISHER: Routledge, The balance of power is one of the most fundamental concepts behind international politics and provides a structure for explaining some of the essential principles behind international relations. Yet despite its widespread importance it remains an enigma and is surrounded by controversy. "The Balance of Power" traces the evolution of the theory ong>fromong> the eighteenth century to the present day. It incorporates classical anlysis and recent research to give a detailed account of the concept in practice and the operation of the international system while challenging traditional ong>viewong>s of the balance of power. Its exploration of the way the balance of power operated in key historical periods shows how the generally accepted development of the concept is based on a misunderstanding of the historical reality.

My Name Is America: The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Durbin, William, PUBLISHER: Scholastic Inc., After his family emigrates ong>fromong> Finland to Minnesota, Otto Peltonen and his father work in the dangerous iron ore mines of the Mesabi Range. There, in the face of discrimination ong>fromong> the foremen, who accept bribes for the prime mining spots, Otto and his father take part in the beginnings of the labor unionization.

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A Race for Madmen: The History of the Tour de France

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sidwells, Chris / Dugard, Martin, PUBLISHER: Sports Publishing LLC, Initially founded to demonstrate a new British invention the bicycle and asa venue to show off the French countryside, the Tour de France continues toexhibit the most extraordinary feats of human endurance ong>fromong> its competitors.Now cyclist and journalist Chris Sidwells brings the Tour to life by pullingback the curtain on the behind-the-scenes battles, tactics, and technology thathave played such a large role in the race ong>fromong> its inception.

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Renaissance Essays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wiener, Philip P. / Kristeller, Paul Oskar, PUBLISHER: University of Rochester Press, The Journal of the History of Ideashas, over the years, published many important articles on the Renaissance; this selection provides a significant index of American scholarship in the field in the first twenty-five years of the journal's publication. Apart ong>fromong> the quality of the papers, the main criterion of selection has been their diversity. The editors aimed to present a broad cross-section of the intellectual history of the Renaissance, and have on the whole preferred comprehensive rather than monographic studies. The so-called problem of the Renaissance is represented by FERGUSON; the historical thought of the period by WEISINGER, BARON, and REYNOLDS; its social, moral and religious thought by ADAMS, RICE and TRINKAUS; humanism by GRAY; philsophy and science by CASSIRER, RANDALL and BOUWSMA; literature by TUVE; the visual arts by SCHAPIRO; and music by LOWINSKY. First published .

Japan Design

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dietz, David, PUBLISHER: Taschen, After many years of low-cost mass production, the Japanese have long since shifted the focus of their efforts to the developments of high-quality technical products. In many cases, the designs of the new generation serve as prototypes which may have only an indirect indfluence on later production. The examples presented in this book thus anticipate the design offensive to come ong>fromong> Japan.

Evolutionary Politics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schubert, Glendon A., JR., PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press, This synthesis of research into the behavior of humans and other social animals ranges horizontally ong>fromong> a congruence of the perspectives of the life sciences, social sciences, and physical sciences and longitudinally ong>fromong> that of the most recent 60 million years, but emphasizing the last 12 thousand years. ong>Fromong> a political science perspective, these essays focus on both individual and small-group political behavior. Schubert's work draws extensively on contemporary evolutionary theory, biosocial and psychobiological theory, ethology and primatology, behavioral ecology, experimental work in animal behavior, neurobiology, human development, and the philosophy of both life and social sciences. Introducing and concluding the book are essays that discuss the implications of biology and the life sciences for the study of political science. The others center on five topics: political ethology (naturalistic study of human behavior as animal behavior); political evolution; evolutionary theory; evolutionary development (ecological, epigenetic, and ontogenetic); and the evolution of human thinking.

Old Risks-New Solutions, or Is It the Other Way Around?

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: World Bank Publications, Old Risks New Solutions, Or Is It The Other Way Around is the latest book in a series based on the MIGA Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management. The Symposium has traditionally brought together almost 200 senior practitioners ong>fromong> the political risk insurance (PRI) industry, including investors, insurers, brokers, lenders, academics and members of the legal community. This volume reflects the key issues which have faced investors and insurers alike including arbitration and a dynamically evolving marketplace. Contributors to this volume reflect on the evolution of the PRI industry during a period of dramatic changes in the marketplace. Not only has the crisis had a tremendous impact on the volume of investment projects, particularly into developing countries, but also on the perception of risk and claims management. The volume begins with a look at the global market place in the aftermath of the financial crisis ong>fromong> an insurer s perspective. It continues with an overong>viewong> of claims experience and key issues investors should understand when relying on bilateral investment treaties. The volume then examines challenges facing investors and insurers alike when considering sovereign risk within the context of political risk. The volume concludes with an overong>viewong> of the PRI industry and its evolution over time how did insurers see the global marketplace evolving over time, what are they predicting now, and how much has it really changed? Old Risks New Solutions provides valuable insights for practitioners and investors alike, particularly in today s turbulent and uncertain markets.

Moral Law

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kevan, PUBLISHER: P & R Publishing, Demonstrates the value of the Law of God in the believer's life. Based on the insights of the brilliant Puritan writer Anthony Burgess

Managing Alcoholism: Matching Clients to Treatments

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lindstrom, Lars / Nord, Richard, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This book provides an in-depth reong>viewong> and concise analysis of studies on alcoholism and psychosocial treatment. In this English edition, which has been extensively revised ong>fromong> the original Swedish version, the major conceptual approaches to alcoholism are evaluated. The ongoing debate on whether alcoholism should be regarded as a disease or not is examined, and a discussion on the importance of psychological versus genetic factors is included. This cohesive work analyzes the methodological strategies of comparative outcome research, and suggests alcoholism treatment services ong>fromong> the perspective of public health.

Hatred Pursued Beyond the Grave: Tales of Our Ancestors from

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cox, Jane, PUBLISHER: Stationery Office Books (TSO), Spanning the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, here are the authentic voices of our ancestors as they went about their daily lives: loving, hating, gossiping and scheming in the kitchens, bedchambers and narrow cobbled streets of old London. Using the actual records ong>fromong> the London Church courts at Doctor's Commons, these are the often harrowing true stories ong>fromong> beyond the grave. Acquista Ora

Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jahanbegloo, Ramin, PUBLISHER: Halban Publishers, Revealing and enlightening, "Conversations with Isaiah Berlin" gives a close ong>viewong> of one of the foremost thinkers of our time. Philosopher and leading proponent of liberal thinking, Isaiah Berlin has changed our sense of history and the world. His impact on the intellectual and political ong>viewong>s of the second half of the twentieth century alone makes it critical to understand his works and analyze his thoughts, and these conversations are a perfect introduction to both. This revised edition follows Isaiah Berlin ong>fromong> Petrograd to Oxford, Washington to Moscow, and London to Jerusalem. The topics range broadly ong>fromong> philosophy to music, history to literature, Judaism to Israel, Marx and Machiavelli to his extraordinary encounters with Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak in post-war Russia.

Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Farrell, Joseph / Feeney, D. C. / Hinds, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different ong>viewong> of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin ong>fromong> antiquity to the twentieth century.

Critical Essays, Volume I: Ancient Orators. Lysias.

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Dionysius / Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Of Halicarnassus, PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press, Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to ong>Romeong> by 30 BCE, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BCE, writing his "Roman Antiquities" and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition. Dionysius's purpose, both in his own work and in his teaching, was to re-establish the classical Attic standards of purity, invention and taste in order to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. He advocated the minute study of the styles of the finest prose authors of the fifth and fourth century BCE, especially the Attic orators. His critical essays on these and on the historian Thucydides represent an important development ong>fromong> the somewhat mechanical techniques of rhetorical handbooks to a more sensitive criticism of individual authors. Illustrating his analysis with well-chosen examples, Dionysius preserves a number of important fragments of Lysias and Isaeus. The essays on those two orators and on Isocrates, Demosthenes and Thucydides comprise Volume I of this edition. Volume II contains three letters to his students; a short essay on the orator Dinarchus; and his finest work, the essay "On Literary Composition, " which combines rhetoric, grammar and criticism in a manner unique in ancient literature. The Loeb Classical Library also publishes a seven volume edition of "Roman Antiquities, " by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a history ong>fromong> earliest times to 264 BCE.

The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hume, Robert Ernest / Hume, R. E., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The metaphysical treatises known as the Upanishads represent the efforts of the major thinkers of early India, ong>fromong> around the sixth century B.C., to solve the problems of the origin, the nature, and the destiny of man and the universe. These texts, translated by Hume who faithfully rendered the original Sanskrit, include an appendix of recurrent and parallel passages in the principal Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita, full annotations, a bibliography, and a helpful exposition of the methods of translation.

From Beachhead to Brittany: The 29th Infantry Division at

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Balkoski, Joseph, PUBLISHER: Stackpole Books, Engaging history of a controversial World War II battle Brilliantly researched and compellingly written by a top military historian In this highly anticipated sequel to "Beyond the Beachhead," historian Joseph Balkoski follows the U.S. 29th Infantry Division out of Normandy and into Brittany in the northwest corner of France, where the division was tasked with seizing the port of Brest. The German defenders, including elite paratroopers, fought fiercely for every inch of ground and inflicted heavy casualties on the Americans during bloody house-to-house fighting. By the time the Germans surrendered, the Allies had taken other ports, thus rendering Brest nearly useless and casting doubt on the decision to capture it in the first place. Balkoski tells the story of the battle, ong>fromong> the generals who ordered the attack to the infantrymen who slogged through the streets of Brest.

The Best American Short Plays

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Young, Glenn, PUBLISHER: Applause Books, Scripts for 14 short plays complete with bios on each author. Includes: Window of Opportunity (John Augustine) * Barry, Betty, and Bill (Renee Taylor/Joseph Bologna) * Come Down Burning (Kia Corthron) * For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls (Christopher Durang) * The Universal Language (David Ives) * The Midlife Crisis of Dionysus (Garrison Keillor) * The Magenta Shift (Carol K. Mack) * My Left Breast (Susan Miller) * The Interong>viewong> (Joyce Carol Oates) * Tall Tales ong>fromong> The Kentucky Cycle (Robert Schenkkan) * Blue Stars (Stuart Spencer) * An Act of Devotion (Deborah Tannen) * Zipless (Ernest Thompson) * Date With a Stranger (Cherie Vogelstein).

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