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Explore the life and times of one of Rome's most influential figures through his personal correspondence. "Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Volume 2" offers a fascinating glimpse into the daily life, political intrigues, and personal reflections of Marcus Tullius Cicero. This collection reveals Cicero's thoughts...

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Delve into "Crowned Masterpieces of Literature That Have Advanced Civilization, Volume 8," a meticulously curated collection of essays spanning from antiquity to the present. Preserved and presented by distinguished literary figures Edward Archibald Allen and William Schuyler, this volume offers a rich tapestry of...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

"The Masterpieces and the History of Literature, Volume 1: Analysis, Criticism, Character and Incident" offers a comprehensive exploration of literary works. Authored by Julian Hawthorne, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton, and John Russell Young, this volume presents in-depth analysis and criticism of...

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are spoken by several millions...

Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment. Included in Combo B is the second half of the Student's Book and the print Workbook (with...

This leading journal features cutting-edge research and analysis on topics in anthropology, from cultural studies to physical anthropology. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, the journal is an essential resource for academics and researchers in the field.This work has been selected by...

Designed specifically for junior high school students, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to literature through a variety of engaging works. With a focus on building key reading and analysis skills, this book is an essential resource for any budding literary scholar.This work has...

This leading journal features cutting-edge research and analysis on topics in anthropology, from cultural studies to physical anthropology. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, the journal is an essential resource for academics and researchers in the field.This work has been selected by...

Schultz was a fur trader and adventurer who lived among the Blackfeet Indians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this work, he tells of his experiences living with the Blackfeet and other tribes in the Rocky Mountains. The work is both...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The 1960s: a time of protests and civil rights marches, sit-ins and speak-outs, free-love rallies and anti-establishment Yip-ins. Yet going largely unnoticed was another powerful revolution: the explosive growth of the two-year college. In The Profession of English in the Two-Year College, those on...

Author: David BaguleyISBN-10: 0719085853ISBN-13: 9780719085857Publisher: Manchester University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2012Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d

How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and...

The Spanish picaresque novel of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not only a major genre in its own right; it was a decisive influence on the subsequent literature of Spain and the development of the modern European novel. When first published Professor Rico's...

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The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study which takes students from complete beginner to post-intermediate level. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it...

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields.Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as...

This in-depth study of the works of major Francophone writers Assia Djebar and Leïla Sebbar redefines postcolonial literature by focusing on three characteristics. Donadey understands postcolonial literature as being both oppositional to and complicit with a variety of power structures. This literature also reclaims...

François Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. Mental files are based on 'epistemically rewarding' relations to objects in the environment. Standing in such relations to objects puts the...

"A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy" is a definitive reference work meticulously compiled by H.V. Marrot. It provides an exhaustive guide to the literary output of one of the early twentieth century's most prominent English writers and Nobel Prize laureates. This volume...

Author: João DionísioISBN-10: 9042034750ISBN-13: 9789042034754Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2012Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.53d

Court decisions can neither be made nor drafted without references to other texts; citations are omnipresent in judicial rulings. Every decision takes relevant normative texts or precedents into account, primarily to ensure coherent case law. Through the act of referencing, courts demonstrate that their...

This edition of Cicero's In Catilinam I-IV, edited by H.W. Auden, presents Cicero's powerful orations against Catiline. These speeches, delivered to the Roman Senate, exposed Catiline's conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. This book provides the original Latin text, offering students and enthusiasts direct...

"The Game of the Chesse" is a seminal work in the history of English printing, attributed to William Caxton and based on the writings of Jacobus de Cessolis and Jean de Vignay. This allegorical treatise uses the game of chess as a framework to...

The arrival of the Reformation was the decisive impetus for literary development in Finland. The principle of Lutheranism was that the people had to get to hear and read the word of God in their own mother tongue. If there previously was no literary...

Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnational literary studies. This collection provides a contribution to the production of new narratives of the nation. The focus of the contributions is contemporary fiction relating to experiences of migration. When people...

White field, black seeds - who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken comes from oral tradition, it refers to the ability to write, a skill which in most Nordic countries was not regarded as necessary for everyone. And...

This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnic languages, such as logophoricity and the use of demonstratives for human referents,...

The present study discusses the ways black men are portrayed in the early creative writings of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara, three major African American women authors of the post-Civil Rights Movement era.Author: Komla Messan NubukpoISBN-10: 3962030433ISBN-13: 9783962030438Publisher: Galda VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This is a morphosyntactic analysis of Dholuo verb system in Chomsky's (2008) Derivation by Phase theory of syntax. Dholuo is a member of the Western Nilotic group in the larger Nilo-Saharan language family. The study is an attempt to account for the various aspect...

Gradation is usually considered to be a property of adjectives. Examples like "The boy loves his mother very much" and "The boy has grown a lot" reveal that gradation is not limited to adjectives but verbs are gradable too. Verb gradation has received considerably...

Semantics is one of the core disciplines of philosophy of language. There are basically two strands of established theories: use-based and truth-conditional, with the latter being the dominant variety. This dominance has been questioned recently by linguists who embrace a research paradigm that is...

No detailed description available for "Instruments and Related Concepts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface".Author: Koen Van HoosteISBN-10: 3957580595ISBN-13: 9783957580597Publisher: Dusseldorf University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2018Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.91d

The aim of this book is to investigate how definiteness is expressed in Polish, a language which is claimed to have no definite and in-definite articles. The central question is how the difference in definiteness is indicated between 'a woman' and 'the woman' in...

No detailed description available for "Frames interdisziplinär: Modelle, Anwendungsfelder, Methoden".Author: Alexander ZiemISBN-10: 3957580021ISBN-13: 9783957580023Publisher: Dusseldorf University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2018Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d

The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis...

In these essays the English author and critic Edmund Gosse analyses how personal character acts upon the work of literary artists in the 19th century. His detailed study includes the writings of such great authors as Swinburne, Tennyson and Gide. Reprint of the original...