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The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for
conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet
amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of
language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the
English language contribute to the overall perspective that an
elaboration of linguistic, cultural, and social contexts and a
renewed emphasis on the concrete historical conditions of language
change are necessary to approach some long-standing obstacles in
the study of the history of the English language. Designed for
students, teachers, and scholars of the English language, Managing
Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (SHEL III)
presents studies on all periods of the English language in a
variety of theoretical and methodological modes. Highlights include
Anatoly Liberman's sweeping comparative revision of the history of
palatalized and velarized consonants in English; William
Kretzschmar's (et al.) wittily illuminating study of a suburban
Atlanta, Georgia town that epitomizes the specific ways in which
inter-regional linguistic variation can be maintained while local
social factors drive dramatic change on an intra-regional level;
Lesley Milroy's innovative analysis of recent unitary changes in
global Englishes that cannot be accounted for by classic Labovian
models that situate language change within small, close networks of
speakers who mediate variation in face-to-face interactions, an
observation that leads Milroy to propose two distinct but
cross-influencing levels of social dynamics in language change. All
of the essays of this volume include careful critiques of the
construction of our present understanding of the history of
English, thus marking the path behind while shining a light on the
way ahead for the future of the discipline.
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for
understanding Old English texts. Robert D. Fulk is arguably the
greatest Old English philologist to emerge during the twentieth
century; his corpus of scholarship has fundamentally shaped
contemporary understanding of many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary
historyand English historical linguistics. This volume, in his
honour, brings together essays which engage with his work and
advance his research interests. Scholarship on historical metrics
and the dating, editing, and interpretation of Old English poetry
thus forms the core of this book; other topics addressed include
syntax, phonology, etymology, lexicology, and paleography. An
introductory overview of Professor Fulk's achievements puts these
studies in context, alongside essays which assess his contributions
to metrical theory and his profound impact on the study of Beowulf.
By consolidating and augmenting Fulk's research, this collection
takes readers to the cutting edgeof Old English philology. LEONARD
NEIDORF is Professor of English at Nanjing University; RAFAEL J.
PASCUAL is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University;
TOM SHIPPEY is Professor Emeritus at St Louis University.
Contributors: Thomas Cable, Christopher M. Cain, George Clark,
Dennis Cronan, Daniel Donoghue, Aaron Ecay, Mark Griffith, Megan E.
Hartman, Stefan Jurasinski, Anatoly Liberman, Donka Minkova, Haruko
Momma, Rory Naismith, Leonard Neidorf, Andy Orchard, Rafael J.
Pascual, Susan Pintzuk, Geoffrey Russom, Tom Shippey, Jun Terasawa,
Charles D. Wright.
In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our
understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has
made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been
hugely influenced by its development. This dynamic book explores
the philosophical significance of cognitive science and examines
the central debates that have enlivened its history. In a
wide-ranging and comprehensive account of the topic, philosopher
M.J. Cain discusses the historical origins of cognitive science and
its philosophical underpinnings; the nature and role of
representations in cognition; the architecture of the mind and the
modularity thesis; the nature of concepts; knowledge of language
and its acquisition; perception; and the relationship between the
brain and cognition. Cain draws upon an extensive knowledge of
empirical developments and their philosophical interpretation. He
argues that although the field has generated some challenging new
views in recent years, many of the core ideas that initiated its
birth are still to be taken seriously. Clearly written and
incisively argued, The Philosophy of Cognitive Science will appeal
to any student or researcher interested in the workings of the
mind.
For more than 60 years, the Californian Family Hinman has exercised
a very considerable influence on the development and practice of
the highest grade of urology, not only in the American West but
worldwide. The leitmotiv of the Hinman School has been honest and
thoughtful consideration of the problems of the genitourinary
system gone awry. Character is the quintessence of the Hinmans.
This virtue distinguishes the present volume on benign pros tatic
hypertrophy assembled and edited by Frank Hinman, Jr. I first came
under the spell of Frank Hinman, Sr. via his classic studies of
renal counterbalance. In brief, in an experimental animal the
ureter of one kidney was ligated and the subsequent renal
hypertrophy of its contrala teral mate was studied quantitatively
from anatomic and functional stand points. There were two central
questions in the Hinman study: How does a normal kidney of an
experimental animal recognize that its load has been doubled
abruptly? What is the signal for renal hypertrophy? Benign
hypertrophy of the prostate is quite different from compensatory
hypertrophy of the kidney. It is now known that benign prostatic
hypertrophy (BPH) is not a hypertrophy but a benign tumor
consisting of a collection of spheroids of micro- and
macrodimensions. In technical terms BPH is an adenofibromyoma.
Perusal of the present volume will reveal many fascinating facets
of BPH of particular interest to urologists and others with an
investigative bent of BPH does not occur in children. BPH occurs as
a medical rarity in mind."
Following her husband's death in an accident, beautiful young widow
Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail
lounge to make ends meet. At the job she encounters two men who
take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer and a wealthy but
unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000
tip and an unconventional offer of marriage...
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.
In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our
understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has
made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been
hugely influenced by its development. This dynamic book explores
the philosophical significance of cognitive science and examines
the central debates that have enlivened its history. In a
wide-ranging and comprehensive account of the topic, philosopher
M.J. Cain discusses the historical origins of cognitive science and
its philosophical underpinnings; the nature and role of
representations in cognition; the architecture of the mind and the
modularity thesis; the nature of concepts; knowledge of language
and its acquisition; perception; and the relationship between the
brain and cognition. Cain draws upon an extensive knowledge of
empirical developments and their philosophical interpretation. He
argues that although the field has generated some challenging new
views in recent years, many of the core ideas that initiated its
birth are still to be taken seriously. Clearly written and
incisively argued, The Philosophy of Cognitive Science will appeal
to any student or researcher interested in the workings of the
mind.
This collection explores the subject of conflicts of interest. It
investigates how to manage conflicts of interest, how they can
affect well-meaning professionals, and how they can limit the
effectiveness of corporate boards, undermine professional ethics,
and corrupt expert opinion. Legal and policy responses are
considered, some of which (e.g. disclosure) are shown to backfire
and even fail. The results offer a sobering prognosis for
professional ethics and for anyone who relies on professionals who
have conflicts of interest. The contributors are leading
authorities on the subject in the fields of law, medicine,
management, public policy, and psychology. The nuances of the
problems posed by conflicts of interest will be highlighted for
readers in an effort to demonstrate the many ways that structuring
incentives can affect decision making and organizations' financial
well-being.
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.
Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
The interface between the urologist and other disciplines in
medicine continues to increase as the character of urology
continues to change. Urologists have, for example, developed strong
links with microbiol ogists over mutual problems of infection in
the urinary tract, urolog ists have been involved in the
development of modern management of renal disease and especially
renal failure, indeed even before the subject of nephrology had
been defined. Similarly the links between endocrinology and
infertility and more recently links between imaging and urology
have led to the mutual benefit of these subjects and certainly to
better patient care. The Pharmacology of the urinary tract has
proved to be a difficult area of study. Slowly but progressively it
has become evident that this is an area of great potential for
urologists. Our patients have a range of problems where
non-surgical management would be ideal but finding the right drug
for the right condition has remained an elusive task. Many of the
earlier trials showed an impressive placebo response rate and
emphasised the need for well planned controlled clinical trials.
The place of such trials in the evaluation of new treatments for
urinary symptoms is now unchallenged and uncon trolled data are of
little value. This book represents a skillful combination of
background infor mation and its clinical application. The review of
the pharmacokine tics of the various groups of drugs provides a
very useful background to both the use of current drugs and also
the prospects for the future."
DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by
greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust. Walter Huff is an
insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the
beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her
spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the
insurance. It'll be the perfect murder ... THE AUTHOR James M. Cain
was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US
Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New
York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
Cain died in 1977
'One of the great crime novels of all time' Tony Parsons, Express
'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not
Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe 'It is no
accident that movies based on three [of Cain's novels] helped to
define the genre known as film noir' NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 'The
most starkly elemental thing that has been written for years'
EVENING STANDARD The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral
drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis,
the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its
kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and
vital prose style and a bleak vision of America.
This collection explores the subject of conflicts of interest. It
investigates how to manage conflicts of interest, how they can
affect well-meaning professionals, and how they can limit the
effectiveness of corporate boards, undermine professional ethics,
and corrupt expert opinion. Legal and policy responses are
considered, some of which (e.g., disclosure) are shown to backfire
and even fail. The results offer a sobering prognosis for
professional ethics and for anyone who relies on professionals who
have conflicts of interest. The contributors are leading
authorities on the subject in the fields of law, medicine,
management, public policy, and psychology. The nuances of the
problems posed by conflicts of interest will be highlighted for
readers in an effort to demonstrate the many ways that structuring
incentives can affect decision making and organizations' financial
well-being.
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'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace,
harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the
mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEW Serenade is the story of the
eternal triangle - with a difference. John Howard Sharp is an
American opera singer down on his luck, having just bombed in
Rigoletto in Mexico City when he first encounters the beautiful
Mexican-Indian prostitute called Juana. Miraculously, she offers
him the chance to rebuild his career in Hollywood and New York but
then Winston Hawes, the young, rich and well-connected conductor
who had first launched Sharp, comes back into his life with
terrible consequences.
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
'Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great
novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a
double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little
things have changed' LA TIMES 'Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime
writing at its very best' MY WEEKLY Mildred Pierce is the story of
a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband
abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful
business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter.
But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals
of those closest to her. This is James M. Cain's most substantial
novel and a classic of the Depression years.
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