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This book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the
analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European
languages. In previous studies of languages from non-Indo-European
families, cognitive linguistics has been remarkably useful in
explaining non-prototypical structures as well as more common ones.
The book expands that effort into a new set of families and
languages.
International news-agencies, such as Reuters, the Associated Press
and Agence France-Presse, have long been 'unsung heroes' of the
media sphere. From the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, the US,
France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, a small number of agencies
have fed their respective countries with international news
reports. They informed governments, businesses, media and,
indirectly, the general public. They helped define 'news'. Drawing
on years of archival research and first-hand experience of major
news agencies, this book provides a comprehensive history of the
leading news agencies based in the UK, France and the USA, from the
early 1800s to the present day. It retraces their relations with
one another, with competitors and clients, and the types of news,
information and data they collected, edited and transmitted, via a
variety of means, from carrier-pigeons to artificial intelligence.
It examines the sometimes colourful biographies of agency newsmen,
and the rise and fall of news agencies as markets and methods
shifted, concluding by looking to the future of the organisations.
Scottish engineer Daniel Wilson (1790-1849) helped launch the
industrial revolution in France and acquired a major art
collection. His daughter, Marguerite (1836-1902), restored the
chateau de Chenonceau, near the Loire Valley. His son, Daniel
(1840-1919), close to Marguerite, became an MP, founded a newspaper
chain, rose to become a leading republican politician, and married
the daughter of President of the Republic Jules Grevy. The younger
Daniel Wilson's business activities and news strategies offended
many and prompted his involvement in a scandal (the sale of the
Legion of Honour decoration) that led to his downfall and that of
President Grevy. Wilson's name became and remains synonymous with
political corruption. This book is the first to examine the nexus
of political and press connections in early republican France from
his viewpoint. The struggle for press freedom since the 1789
Revolution culminating in the 1881 Press Law is assessed by
considering the stance of Wilson, Grevy, and the leading press
magnate Emile de Girardin and other press tycoons. The flamboyant
Marguerite, who hosted Gustave Flaubert in Chenonceau and journeyed
to India, colours the saga.
Scottish engineer Daniel Wilson (1790-1849) helped launch the
industrial revolution in France and acquired a major art
collection. His daughter, Marguerite (1836-1902), restored the
chateau de Chenonceau, near the Loire Valley. His son, Daniel
(1840-1919), close to Marguerite, became an MP, founded a newspaper
chain, rose to become a leading republican politician, and married
the daughter of President of the Republic Jules Grevy. The younger
Daniel Wilson's business activities and news strategies offended
many and prompted his involvement in a scandal (the sale of the
Legion of Honour decoration) that led to his downfall and that of
President Grevy. Wilson's name became and remains synonymous with
political corruption. This book is the first to examine the nexus
of political and press connections in early republican France from
his viewpoint. The struggle for press freedom since the 1789
Revolution culminating in the 1881 Press Law is assessed by
considering the stance of Wilson, Grevy, and the leading press
magnate Emile de Girardin and other press tycoons. The flamboyant
Marguerite, who hosted Gustave Flaubert in Chenonceau and journeyed
to India, colours the saga.
The purpose of this work, written with advanced undergraduate
students in mind, is to treat fundamental principles in sufficient
detail to bring out a coherent framework of the subject, provided a
physical as well as a mathematical understanding of a wide range of
phenomena in solid state physics. The student is assumed to have
completed standard university courses in classical and statistical
mechanics, electromagnetism, and calculus, and to have grasped the
basics of quantum mechanics, up to perturbation theory. The book
opens with the adiabatic approximation of the many-body problem of
system of ions and valence electrons. After chapters of lattice
symmetry, structure and dynamics, it then proceeds with four
chapters devoted to the single-electron theory of the solid state.
Semiconductors and dielectrics are covered in depth and chapters on
magnetism and superconductivity follow. The book concludes with a
chapters on solid surfaces. Every section is followed by solved
problems, some of them illustrating areas of current interest in
solid state physics, to give the student a practical working
knowledge of the subject, and the text is illustrated with many
supplementary examples.
Up-to-date and accessible, the second edition of Helping People
with Eating Disorders is a comprehensive guide to understanding,
assessing, and treating eating disorders. * Focuses on
evidence-based practice with references to the latest research and
new DSM-V classifications * Discusses the types of eating disorders
and their causes, reviews treatment methods and their outcomes, and
provides guidance on dealing with challenging cases * Illustrates
concepts and methods using several case studies that run throughout
the book, as well as many examples from the author s clinical work
* Written in clear and concise language by an expert with over 40
years experience in the field
A stroke can alter two people's lives in an instant. For the
person who has had a stroke, simple tasks suddenly become difficult
or impossible. For that person's partner, life seems to revolve
mostly around the stroke survivor's needs. Such a drastic change
naturally requires making many, sometimes taxing, adjustments. In
this book, two experts in stroke recovery help couples deal with
the impact of stroke on their lives and their relationship.
Drs. Sara and Jeffrey Palmer explain how to overcome three major
challenges:
- providing quality care for your partner- maintaining or
rebuilding your relationship- caring for yourself as an
individual
The book invites you into the lives of real couples who are
themselves coping with these challenges. Their experiences model
how you can improve essential aspects of your relationship,
including communication, roles and responsibilities, and sexuality.
A list of practical tips summarizes each chapter, providing a handy
reference guide to meeting each day's challenges.
More than just a discussion of the medical and practical aspects
of stroke and stroke recovery, this book focuses on the emotional,
psychological, and social consequences of stroke and the deeply
personal side of caregiving. "When Your Spouse Has a Stroke" will
relieve your burden and strengthen your partnership.
The purpose of this work is to offer those interested in a career
in the Medical Billing and Coding field an insight on what they may
expect before investing a great amount of time, energy, and expense
into a career they may not have enough information about to make an
informed decision. It is intended to be an introduction to the
field in general and perhaps to answer some of the common questions
asked by those considering this career field. While it can not
answer every question, the book comes with unlimited email
questions to the author related to the works content and topic to
further assist those exploring this career path. This work is not
intended or represented to be an instruction manual or teaching
guide in the practice of Medical Billing or Medical Coding.
Up-to-date and accessible, the second edition of Helping People
with Eating Disorders is a comprehensive guide to understanding,
assessing, and treating eating disorders. * Focuses on
evidence-based practice with references to the latest research and
new DSM-V classifications * Discusses the types of eating disorders
and their causes, reviews treatment methods and their outcomes, and
provides guidance on dealing with challenging cases * Illustrates
concepts and methods using several case studies that run throughout
the book, as well as many examples from the author s clinical work
* Written in clear and concise language by an expert with over 40
years experience in the field
"Protecting Parent-Child Bonds: The 28th Amendment" is a book for
those seeking changes to our family law system through legislation
and political activism. It describes a proposed amendment that will
forever enshrine the protection of parent-child bonds into our
United States Constitution. This Amendment spells out for all
family courts that our children's best interests are best protected
by fit parents with strongly-protected and equal parental rights.
If you want the family law system to change but don't know how to
make your voice count then get this book and simply send copies to
your judges and legislators with a note saying "I want this
constitutional Amendment." Let this book make your arguments
directly to those with the power to change the system.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Native Soil (Paperback)
Walter B Palmer
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Two of the largest and most populous, and anti-American, countries
- China and the Russian Republic - have joined forces militarily in
an attempt at world domination. They have swept over Southwest Asia
and the Middle East, forcing a buildup of hundreds of thousands of
U.S. and Allied troops in the region. As the world would find out,
that was not the only place to be invaded.
A small group of childhood friends, saying farewell and
congratulations, are suddenly thrown into the midst of a war the
country could not predict. Trapped and unable to flee to safety,
they are ultimately forced to hide out deep in the forests of the
Adirondack Mountains. There they must fight their enemies, both
invading forces and other Americans, in order to survive. Their
goal is simple, yet nearly impossible; make it out alive and escape
the first war since the Civil War to be fought on native soil.
Imagery, broadly defined as all that people may construe in
cognitive models pertaining to vision, hearing, touch, taste,
smell, and feeling states, precedes and shapes human language. In
this pathfinding book, Gary B. Palmer restores imagery to a central
place in studies of language and culture by bringing together the
insights of cognitive linguistics and anthropology to form a new
theory of cultural linguistics.
Palmer begins by showing how cognitive grammar complements the
traditional anthropological approaches of Boasian linguistics,
ethnosemantics, and the ethnography of speaking. He then applies
his cultural theory to a wealth of case studies, including Bedouin
lamentations, spatial organization in Coeur d'Alene place names and
anatomical terms, Kuna narrative sequence, honorifics in Japanese
sales language, the domain of ancestral spirits in Proto-Bantu
noun-classifiers, Chinese counterfactuals, the non-arbitrariness of
Spanish verb forms, and perspective schemas in English
discourse.
This pioneering approach suggests innovative solutions to old
problems in anthropology and new directions for research. It will
be important reading for everyone interested in anthropology,
linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy.
The purpose of this work, written with advanced undergraduate
students in mind, is to treat fundamental principles in sufficient
detail to bring out a coherent framework of the subject, provided a
physical as well as a mathematical understanding of a wide range of
phenomena in solid state physics. The student is assumed to have
completed standard university courses in classical and statistical
mechanics, electromagnetism, and calculus, and to have grasped the
basics of quantum mechanics, up to perturbation theory. The book
opens with the adiabatic approximation of the many-body problem of
system of ions and valence electrons. After chapters of lattice
symmetry, structure and dynamics, it then proceeds with four
chapters devoted to the single-electron theory of the solid state.
Semiconductors and dielectrics are covered in depth and chapters on
magnetism and superconductivity follow. The book concludes with a
chapters on solid surfaces. Every section is followed by solved
problems, some of them illustrating areas of current interest in
solid state physics, to give the student a practical working
knowledge of the subject, and the text is illustrated with many
supplementary examples.
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