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This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the biology of language. Lyle Jenkins reviews the evidence that language is best characterized by a generative grammar of the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:26 | Bilingualism in Development is an examination of the language and cognitive development of bilingual children focusing primarily on the preschool years. It begins by defining the territory for what is included in bilingualism and how language proficiency can be conce... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:26 | In this 1999 book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl's and Heidegger's approach to fundamental elements of human experience. He shows how their accounts of time, meaning, and personal identity are embedded... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:26 | In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its politic... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:28 | Revisiting Cyert and March's classic 1963 'Behavioral Theory of the Firm', Henrich Greve offers an intriguing analysis of how firms evolve in response to feedback about their own performance. Based on ideas from organizational theory, social psychology, and economics... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:29 | This book offers key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries. It is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the UK, Japan and Korea with Indian software houses. In these... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:30 | The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones - the use of pitch to convey word meaning. Seventy percent of the world's languages use pitch in this way. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of the topic, this textbook provides a clearly or... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:31 | The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences: revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the period, as English men and women rethought their relationship to the aggressi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:31 | There is hardly another principle in physics with wider scope of applicability and more far-reaching consequences than Pauli's exclusion principle. This 2005 book explores the principle's origin in the atomic spectroscopy of the early 1920s, its subsequent embedding ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:32 | Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. Despite deep cultural differences, novelists from Africa, the Caribbean, Great Britain, and the United States share a sense that the economic, soci... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:32 | Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Co... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:35 | This book deploys the mathematical axioms of modern rational mechanics to understand minds as mechanical systems that exhibit actual, not metaphorical, forces, inertia, and motion. Using precise mental models developed in artificial intelligence the author analyzes m... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:35 | 'Markedness' refers to the tendency of languages to show a preference for particular structures or sounds. This bias towards 'marked' elements is consistent within and across languages, and tells us a great deal about what languages can and cannot do. This pioneering... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:36 | Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which Englan... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:36 | This is a practical guide to the medical complications and treatment of anorexia nervosa and related eating disorders. A user-friendly structure allows the reader to access information on the basis of physical complaint (e.g. chest pain) or body system (e.g. neurolog... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:36 | An indispensable and timely guide, Risk is the authority for assessing threats to your health and safety.We continually face new risks in our world. This essential family reference will help you understand worrisome risks so you can decide how to stay safe and how to... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural south and in the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | This book brings together important essays by one of the leading philosophers of science at work today. Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines several of the central topics in philosophy of biology, including the structure of evolutionary theory, units of selection, and evoluti... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innova... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the indivi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | With almost a quarter of the world's migrants, Europe has been attempting to regulate migration and harmonize immigration policy at the European level. The central dilemma exposed is how liberal democracies can reconcile the need to control the movement of people wit... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:50 | In this 2010 edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's economy since 2001. How have the various countries in the Middle East responded to the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:50 | In 1980 the US government began to systematically collect data on Hispanics. By 2005 the Latino population of the United States had become the nation's largest minority and is projected to comprise about one-third of the total US population in 2050. Utilizing census ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:50 | Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior is the first study in more than 30 years to investigate the broad significance of personality traits for mass political behavior. Drawing on the Big Five personality trait framework, Jeffery J. Mondak argues that ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:51 | Observing an encounter between Catholic and Buddhist monks in 1996 at the Abbey of Gethsemani, near where he grew up in rural Kentucky, Fenton Johnson found himself unable to make the sign of the cross. His distance from his childhood faith had become so great -- he ... Полное описание |
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