Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of "the living letter" may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writing-linked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politics-which take Balinese letters to be a symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the transmission of textual meaning. More than Words shows how Balinese practices of apotropaic writing-on palm-leaves, amulets, and bodies-challenge these notions, and yet coexist alongside them. Reflecting on this coexistence, Fox develops a theoretical approach to writing centered on the premise that such contradictory sensibilities hold wider significance than previously recognized for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond.

ETYMA II is an undergraduate or advanced high school textbook for English vocabulary-building. It is divided into three parts, beginning with a brief history of foreign words in English, including information on families of languages, the Indo-European relations of English, and the development of the language. This is followed by two large sections on the Latin and Greek element in English. In every section, numerous exercises help students work closely with the material. Each of the practical word-building chapters ends with a summary "what you should know" as well as adequate reviews. Complete reviews of material are included between every few chapters. Games, projects, vocabulary notes on history in words, words in contexts, odd and interesting words are included in every lesson to keep students' interest alive, especially in the more arid chapters on the nuts and bolts of vocabulary building.

""La Escritura Lineal Atlantica (ELA) constituye el testimonio mas antiguo en la historia de la humanidad del uso de un sistema de escritura linguistica.""

"El signario ELA (Escritura Lineal Atlantica) cumple con los tres principios fundamentales de una autentica escritura glottografica: 1. Secuencialidad y ordenamiento logico, 2. Recurrencia de signos, 3. Morfologia lineal y esquematica. Y ha superado la prueba fundamental. La mas importante: una identificacion de signos con fonemas que han permitido traducciones coherentes, logicas y creibles, a traves de lenguas que pudieron haberse hablado en la region, de acuerdo a la evidencia historico-epigrafica y genetica (ADNmit)."

"Este libro es una seleccion de algunos de los numerosos testimonios epigraficos ELA que el autor ha logrado recopilar durante mas de veinte anos, desde que descubrio la presencia del signario entre los petroglificos del noroeste de Iberia, y mas tarde tambien en otros lugares de la peninsula y por casi toda las regiones de la costa atlantica europea y africana. "

"La conclusion del autor de este ensayo es que la Escritura Lineal Atlantica (ELA) constituye el testimonio mas antiguo en la historia de la humanidad del uso de un sistema de escritura linguistica."