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Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback): Kendra Leonard Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback)
Kendra Leonard
R223 R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Save R16 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Smuggling in Syntax (Hardcover): Adriana Belletti, Chris Collins Smuggling in Syntax (Hardcover)
Adriana Belletti, Chris Collins
R3,069 Discovery Miles 30 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions. Smuggling in Syntax investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling. First introduced by volume editor Chris Collins in 2005, the term 'smuggling' refers to a specific type of movement interaction. The contributions in this volume each describe different areas where smuggling derivations play a role, including passives, causatives, adverb placement, the dative alternation, the placement of measure phrases, wh-in-situ, and word order in ergative languages. The volume also addresses issues like the freezing constraint on movement and the acquisition of smuggling derivations by children. In this work, Adriana Belletti and Chris Collins bring together leading syntacticians to present a range of contributions on different aspects of smuggling. Tackling fundamental theoretical questions with empirical consequences, this volume explores one of the least understood types of movement and points the way toward new research.

Averin's Letters from Bangkok - Diary of a British Embassy wife, part 1: 1957 (Paperback): Michael Richard Hinton Averin's Letters from Bangkok - Diary of a British Embassy wife, part 1: 1957 (Paperback)
Michael Richard Hinton
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Most Unlikely Story - A Short Memoir of a Long Life (Paperback): Emy Thomas A Most Unlikely Story - A Short Memoir of a Long Life (Paperback)
Emy Thomas
R597 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Weer-Lig (Afrikaans, Paperback): Fransi Nieuwoudt Weer-Lig (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Fransi Nieuwoudt
R10 Discovery Miles 100 In Stock

‘n Sterk sintuiglike aanslag en oorspronklike beeldgebruik.

Hierdie bundel roep temas in die lewe wat nie dikwels in die Afrikaanse digkuns voorkom nie.

Italians of Brooklyn (Paperback): Marianna Biazzo Randazzo Italians of Brooklyn (Paperback)
Marianna Biazzo Randazzo
R557 R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Baseball in Alabama - Tales of Hardball in the Heart of Dixie (Paperback): Doug Wedge Baseball in Alabama - Tales of Hardball in the Heart of Dixie (Paperback)
Doug Wedge; Foreword by Hal Baird Head Baseball Coach Auburn University 1985-2000
R598 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover): James McMullen Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)
James McMullen
R2,692 Discovery Miles 26 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however, the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to philosophical analysis. The authors of this volume demonstrate that The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this collection reveals a part of this framework, situating individual themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.

The Plumtree Diaries (Paperback): Gordon Wallis The Plumtree Diaries (Paperback)
Gordon Wallis
R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Run For Life - Caster Semenya (Paperback): Bronwyn Henkel The Run For Life - Caster Semenya (Paperback)
Bronwyn Henkel
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
And So The Journey Begins (Paperback): Neil Milliner And So The Journey Begins (Paperback)
Neil Milliner
R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rebirth - Ripped, Torned, But Now I Am Healed (Paperback): Sharlene Mullings Rebirth - Ripped, Torned, But Now I Am Healed (Paperback)
Sharlene Mullings
R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mavericks - How Coronation, Ninety One and Allan Gray beat the rest (Paperback): Stephen Cranston The Mavericks - How Coronation, Ninety One and Allan Gray beat the rest (Paperback)
Stephen Cranston
R350 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R38 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

How the three independent asset managers Coronation, Allan Gray and Investec (later Ninety One) , dubbed the CIA, came to dominate and continue to dominate the South African asset management industry, particularly the pension fund market.

There are plenty of colourful big ego personalities such as Hendrik du Toit at Ninety One, Leon Campher at Coronation and the late Allan Gray plus kingmakers reshaping thr industry such as Patrice Motsepe.

Greenwich Meridian Memoir (Paperback): Emma Palova Greenwich Meridian Memoir (Paperback)
Emma Palova
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Kids Who Cried Wolf - Roscetti Case (Paperback): Omar Muhammad The Kids Who Cried Wolf - Roscetti Case (Paperback)
Omar Muhammad
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reacher - The Stories Behind The Stories (Paperback): Lee Child Reacher - The Stories Behind The Stories (Paperback)
Lee Child
R440 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R47 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From urgently scribbling out his debut Killing Floor in pencil (the stub of which he still owns), to taking a step back with Blue Moon, and everything in between, here are 24 honest, witty and wise personal reflections on his life and work, crafted across decades.

Whether it is through Lee’s moving account of meeting a fan years after her mother brought her to a book signing; facing his first computer and the coming of the internet; writing about New York just before – and just after – 9/11, to later seeing his novels adapted for the big screen, each riveting piece deftly evokes where he was psychologically and physically when he wrote each novel.

Lee has clearly felt unwavering gratitude for his readers since 1997. And these stories were originally designed for fans of Reacher who may be interested in a ‘behind-the-scenes’ – or, in Lee’s words: ‘why the books turned out the way they did’.

But this collection is also so much more. It is the story of a man who once put pencil to paper in an attempt to turn his luck around . . . and who made every word count.

South Central, L.A. Life (Paperback): Sharquent Delon Jacobs South Central, L.A. Life (Paperback)
Sharquent Delon Jacobs
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leveling Up with Francis Castillo - Spiritually. Mentally. Financially (Paperback): Brittany J McKeldin Leveling Up with Francis Castillo - Spiritually. Mentally. Financially (Paperback)
Brittany J McKeldin; Francis Castillo
R171 Discovery Miles 1 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Stories of Faith - Book 1: O Ye of Mini Faith (Paperback): Eric Elder My Stories of Faith - Book 1: O Ye of Mini Faith (Paperback)
Eric Elder
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Province of Memory (Paperback): Joseph Roccasalvo The Province of Memory (Paperback)
Joseph Roccasalvo
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
SheFighter - From Trouble Maker to Global Change Maker (Paperback): Lina Khalifeh SheFighter - From Trouble Maker to Global Change Maker (Paperback)
Lina Khalifeh
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dreamer Of Dune - The Biography Of Frank Herbert (Paperback, New Edition): Brian Herbert Dreamer Of Dune - The Biography Of Frank Herbert (Paperback, New Edition)
Brian Herbert
R470 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R51 (11%) In Stock

Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold millions of copies around the world and spawned multiple motion-picture adaptations.

Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father's extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light all the events in Herbert's life that would find their way into speculative fiction's greatest epic. From his early years in Tacoma, Washington, through his time at university and in the Navy, to the difficult years of poverty while struggling to become a published writer, Herbert worked long and hard before finding success after the publication of Dune in 1965.

Brian Herbert writes about these years with a truthful intensity that brings every facet of his father's brilliant, and sometimes troubled, genius to full light. Insightful and provocative, containing family photos never published anywhere, this absorbing biography offers Brian Herbert's unique personal perspective on one of the most enigmatic and creative talents of our time.

As If By Magic - Selected Poems (Hardcover): Paula Meehan As If By Magic - Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Paula Meehan
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anti-contiguity - A Theory of Wh- Prosody (Hardcover): Jason Kandybowicz Anti-contiguity - A Theory of Wh- Prosody (Hardcover)
Jason Kandybowicz
R2,430 Discovery Miles 24 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship. In this book, Jason Kandybowicz develops Anti-contiguity Theory as a compelling alternative to Richards' Contiguity Theory to explain the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the prosodic system of a language. Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on several under-studied West African languages (Krachi, Bono, Wasa, Asante Twi, and Nupe), Kandybowicz presents empirically and theoretically rich analyses bearing directly on a number of important theories of the syntax-prosody interface. His observations and analyses stem from original fieldwork on all five languages and represent some of the first prosodic descriptions of the languages. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility. Against the backdrop of data from eighteen languages, Anti-contiguity offers a new lens on the empirical and theoretical study of wh- prosody.

The Exacerbation of Being Nothing - Wanted for Love Paperized Because Wanted (Paperback): Saravuth Inn The Exacerbation of Being Nothing - Wanted for Love Paperized Because Wanted (Paperback)
Saravuth Inn; Eduardo Bubillus
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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