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The global history of the rise and transformation of bookstores, from medieval book merchants to today's neighborhood indies Whether it's a local indie bookshop, an online megaretailer, or a chain bookstore, the place we buy books is an essential part of our reading lives....

Are you struggling to reach the CLB 9+ score required for your Canadian Permanent Residency or professional licensing?Author: Leonard BoutonISBN-13: 9798242531352Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/04/2026Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.33d

This new critical edition of Dissoi Logoi starts from a codicological analysis that is unprecedented in scope (the studied codices are twenty-six) and depth (their material, dimensions, transmitted works, provenance, date, scribe, first possessors, and current place of conservation are considered). On this basis,...

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and practical reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Hebrew as used by contemporary native speakers.Designed as a companion grammar, it provides an accessible yet comprehensive description of the language, organized by grammatical topic....

English complementizers play an important role in clausal construction. It is widely considered that the complementizers such as for, if, that, and whether can be used to introduce embedded clauses. How can we identify their syntactic roles that exert impact on variant patterns? Why...

This revolutionary book sets out to persuade the reader that the English language is not the result of years of haphazard evolution, a chaotic atom-like conglomeration of words, but a carefully planned whole in which each word has its place and is connected by...

Yang Mu, the recipient of the 2007 International Prize for Literature Written in Chinese, is a well-known bicultural poet. Born in Taiwan during the last phase of the Japanese occupation, his life and writing have been influenced by competing forces in the historical, political,...

Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die Wechselbezüge von Individuum und Gesellschaft anhand dreier ausgewählter US-amerikanischer Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts dar: F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby (1925), J.D.Salingers The Catcher in the Rye (1951) und Bret Easton Ellis Less than Zero (1985). Der Verlust der...

Es würde sicher zu lauten Protesten führen, den Dramatiker Heiner Müller als Zugpferd vor den Karren der Emanzipationsbewegung zu spannen. Oftmals bieten seine Frauenfiguren Nährstoff für Chauvinisten, Machos und Frauenfeinde. Genauer durchleuchtet allerdings sind sie Leitfiguren für den Anspruch auf Gleichberechtigung. Dabei nimmt Müller...

Voices From The Hills: North-East Indian English Poetry: A Critical Gaze is a modest attempt to evaluate some prominent literary figures of North-East Indian Poetry. It includes more than ten in-depth critical essays dealing different latest perspectives of the region by eminent scholars. The...

A phonological analysis of a modern English dialect based on the transformational generative theory. Using the theoretical framework of generative phonology as put forth by Chomsky and Halle, discussed in the introduction, this book contains a detailed description of the sound segments of the...

Utilizing both literary and extra-literary sources, the study considers all documented references to the Wate figure in the Middle Ages. Subsequent to a critical evaluation of research done on the figure in the years 1826-1974, an analysis is undertaken of Wate's role in prominent...

This first full-length study of imagery in French surrealist poetry applies recent linguistic theory and methodology to the question of style in the image. It begins by examining the linguistic principles underlying the surrealist theory of the image and then develops a methodology for...

This bibliography represents the first attempt at indexing the vast number of scholarly monographs and articles that explain the origin, the history and the meaning of an individual proverb or proverbial expression. Over 2000 investigations from the 18th century to the present day are...

The idyllic model is defined (in opposition to pastoral) as an extended topos or model of the physical and social universe, descended from an older world-view, but also offering a stylized image of part of the social reality of the 18th century and early...

This study approaches the question of the relationship of the part to the whole in a literary work, as evidenced in the theme and structure of medieval romance, and instantiates the problem through an examination of how the number symbolism and alchemical imagery in...

The aim of this study is a thorough investigation and comparison of Hofmannsthal's relationship to the theory of the French symbolists. A notable similarity of structure, mood and technique between Hofmannsthal's poetry and his lyric dramas and those of the symbolists, has long interested...

A collection of critical and detailed analyses which shed new light on several most important grammatical problems. Suitable for English language and linguistic courses, this volume is also a valuable reference which provides necessary fundamentals for students and teachers of English as a Second...

After comparing several systems for identifying and classifying subordinate clauses, this study uses them to analyze the sentence structure of selected Middle High German prose texts. This analysis, conducted on the quantitative and qualitative levels, is used as the basis for a definition of...

Author: Patrizia VioliISBN-10: 2503508073ISBN-13: 9782503508078Publisher: Brepols PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 200Format: Paperback

This edited volume is the first in a new series, with chapters from researchers and social professionals covering topics from Argentina, Canada, Italy, Spain, and the U.S. As a whole the book also lays the groundwork for building a theoretical base that both unites...

A figure of speech is an expression in which the words are used, but not in their literal sense, to create a more forceful or dramatic meaning. They are often in the form of metaphors, similes and hyperbole "A fountain of knowledge," is a...

IF OUR ANCIENT PRE-HUMAN ANCESTORS COMMUNICATED THROUGH CALLS, WHAT HAPPENED TO TURN THESE INTO SPOKEN LANGUAGE? Survival of the Smallest is the story of what was behind this amazing achievement, and who was the driving force. Beginning with a species living 3.5 million years...

Art works and surrounding text by Yair Meshoulam titled 'The Fifth Season of the Moon' accompanied by articles from friends: Robert Silman 'My Gang' (on identity politics), Xa Sturgis 'Powhatan's Mantle' (on colonial expropriation) and photographic art and text from David Campany and Grant...

This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent...

A Classic Handbook for Signaling and Secret Communications at a Distance in the OutdoorsThis unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Elbert Wells' Outdoor Signalling is a classic handbook on sending signals over distance in the outdoors and coded communications using Wells' personal system of cyphered...

Enough! is about schools, education, and life. We are in an age of massive stimulation, more, more, more, higher, higher, and higher which translates into our obsession for living futuristically, collecting mounds of numerical data, and relegating qualities of humanity as less important. This...

Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, or Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch, was the noted Arabic scholar Ibn Khallikan's most well-known and respected work. The author worked on the tome from 1256 to 1274, compiling names, genealogies, and histories...

With suggestions form influential thinkers and authors, IN PRAISE OF BOOKS can help those who are developing a personal library or reading list. Ralph Waldo Emerson contributed an Atlantic Monthly essay to this volume, in which he recommended his favorite writers and texts. He...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Henry Charles EnglefieldISBN-10: 1446039064ISBN-13: 9781446039069Publisher:...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This book focuses on letter formation for the lower case letters of the English alphabet. There is no doubt you will see an improvement in your child's handwriting. However this book can be used at any age to improve handwriting and letter formation.Appropriate letter...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

A provocative casebook for our digital times, this book is designed to jumpstart an in-depth dialogue about the historical, cultural, civic, and scientific implications of a mass shift in reading methods. Each chapter is broken down in a visual way through bullet points, bolding,...

This collection makes a significant contribution to international awareness and the promotion of intercultural understanding. Due to sophisticated advances in technology, the communication networks of the world are expanding at a rapid rate. Paradoxically, expansion has brought an information gap in international understanding that...

Mada is spoken in southeastern Nigeria and is a member of the Benue-Congo subfamily of languages.Author: Norman PriceISBN-10: 0883126001ISBN-13: 9780883126004Publisher: Sil International, Global PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/1989Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

English Counter Russian examines English/Russian literary translations of works by seven renowned authors and a critic - Pasternak, Chukovsky, Voinovich, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Hemingway, and Paustovsky. Focusing on translation criticism that exposes all linguistic features of the original, this book includes the most salient...

The Luther Bible was the topic of a large amount of scholarly literature in Germany in the early twentieth century. Close examination of this research reveals the strong nationalistic attitudes of its authors. This book doubles as a Forschungsbericht of this literature and a...

Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcools appears to be a haphazard accumulation of allusions, myths and neologisms. Biographically and historically oriented attempts to elucidate a structure in this work have usually been frustrated. The semiotic approach to myth and poetry developed in this book shows that the...

A traditional reading of Rilke's oeuvre is based on the assumption that Rainer Maria Rilke is a German poet. For decades however, Rilke has left his mark on American poetry. His multicultural biography and poetry attracted the poets and translators Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell,...

This study of early vernacular humanism compares the stylistic methods of two important prose writers, Sir Thomas Elyot and Baldassare Castiglione. Analysis of diction, syntax, and larger issues of cultural history explains how each of these stylists incorporated the classical model into his vernacular...

This is the first scholarly translation-study in English of the Parlamento de Ruzante ('The Veteran') and Bilora ('Weasel'). These two one-act renaissance plays, set and performed around 1530 in Venice, are remarkable for their linguistic and gestural vitality, brutal humour, psychological penetration and controversial...

With thorough research and reasoned arguments, Dr. Lambros's empirical study of 188 subjects proves that language, whether the original or not, is not the determinant factor in comprehending culture from a literary work. Discussed with the authority of an experienced, multilingual language professor, Culture...

Perhaps the oldest and most intriguing conundrum of all is the question: What is the mind? In the last decade an interdisciplinary approach, known as cognitive science, has emerged to study the mind with the ideas and methods forged by artificial intelligence researchers. The...

The French writer Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is coming to be recognized as one of the major voices in 20th-century literature. Although twelve of his novels have been translated, Chêne et Chien, considered by specialists to be the keystone of his oeuvre, has not until...

This book is a tagmemic analysis of propaganda discourse. With its primary concern on the social context of language, the tagmemic approach, developed by Pike, emphasizes the simultaneous description of social, interpersonal, and textual features of a text. The results of this study indicate...

This important study focuses on the novels of Victor Hugo, one of the most well-known French authors of the nineteenth century. Through close readings of his most celebrated narratives, Les Misérables and Notre Dame de Paris; his juvenelia, Han d'Islande, Bug-Jargal, and Le Dernier...

This book first provides an historical overview of the critical reception of Charles Dickens' treatment and use of language, and then analyzes his rhetoric by focusing on one novel, Bleak House, as exemplary of his techniques. Both the written and spoken word are examined...

This book examines Margaret Drabble's female Bildungsromane using a Marxist-feminist theoretical model. Thus it historicizes genre - the Bildungsroman - and also the specific kinds of journeys upon which the heroine embarks: marriage, housework, community, sorority, literary creativity. Integrating the theoretical work of Marx,...