Tales of suspense for the twilight hour... Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity – often referring to real events, objects and people. From a demonic text that leaves its readers strangled to the murderous spectre of a feudal baron, this is a crucial addition to the long and distinguished cannon of Scottish ghost stories. For those who seek out the unnerving, the unknown and the unexplainable, Dark Encounters is guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of your neck. This edition features a rare story – 'The MacGregor Skull' – which was the last story every written by the author and posthumously serialised in the Scotsman in 1963.

Bringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic strategies for expressing functions, and Croft provides a comprehensive functional framework to account for the full range of these constructions in the world's languages. The book explains analytical concepts that serve as a basis for cross-linguistic comparison, and provides a rich source of descriptive data that can be analysed within a range of theories. The functional framework is useful to linguists documenting endangered languages, and those writing reference grammars and other descriptive materials. Each technical term is comprehensively explained, and cross-referenced to related terms, at the end of each chapter and in an online glossary. This is an essential resource on Morphosyntax for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and linguistic fieldworkers.

Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in a fast-growing field of linguistics. The much-needed introduction will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates in linguistics and cognitive science.

The second edition of this essential textbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated to reflect advances in typology and universals over the past decade. It reviews new methodologies such as the semantic map model and questions of syntactic argumentation; discussion of current debates over explanations for specific classes of universals; and comparison of the typological and generative approaches to language.

Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in a fast-growing field of linguistics. The much-needed introduction will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates in linguistics and cognitive science.

The second edition of this essential textbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated to reflect advances in typology and universals over the past decade. It reviews new methodologies such as the semantic map model and questions of syntactic argumentation; discussion of current debates over explanations for specific classes of universals; and comparison of the typological and generative approaches to language.

This is a new release of the original 1950 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1950 edition.

The practice of treating the energy-based human body with contraindicated pharmaceutical drugs has proliferated within the last 100 years and is now the leading cause of death in society. The treatment of environmental pests using many non-definitive pesticides has brought an additional load of poisons to the human and animal body. Continual use of these archaic chemicals has led to great insurance risk for the industry, forcing them to come up with a diversion for these poisoning effects. The insurance industry joins with bioterrorists, who are masters in disease generation, to manufacture and inflict a highly infectious disguise disease on society, which can also be used as war weapon. These bioterrorists are now capable of telepathically activating biological war weapons. A couple comes back from the future to discover, solely identify and disclose the fraudulent use of this disguise disease controlled by the Al- Qaeda that has now infected every human and animal on the planet. How can they bring the world back from such devastation before a large percentage of the population dies? What can be done? Anatomical pathology of a dead Montana whitetail deer reveals that humanity is faced with this life-threatening enigma.

The practice of treating the energy-based human body with contraindicated pharmaceutical drugs has proliferated within the last 100 years and is now the leading cause of death in society. The treatment of environmental pests using many non-definitive pesticides has brought an additional load of poisons to the human and animal body. Continual use of these archaic chemicals has led to great insurance risk for the industry, forcing them to come up with a diversion for these poisoning effects. The insurance industry joins with bioterrorists, who are masters in disease generation, to manufacture and inflict a highly infectious disguise disease on society, which can also be used as war weapon. These bioterrorists are now capable of telepathically activating biological war weapons. A couple comes back from the future to discover, solely identify and disclose the fraudulent use of this disguise disease controlled by the Al- Qaeda that has now infected every human and animal on the planet. How can they bring the world back from such devastation before a large percentage of the population dies? What can be done? Anatomical pathology of a dead Montana whitetail deer reveals that humanity is faced with this life-threatening enigma.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 4 Edmund Hodgson Yates, William Tinsley, William Croft, Edmund Downey Tinsley Brothers, 1869 Fiction; Mystery & Detective; General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishing; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 36 Edmund Hodgson Yates, William Tinsley, William Croft, Edmund Downey Tinsley Brothers, 1885

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The principal aim of this study was to use the concept of image defocus related to feature depth in order to develop a system capable of converting a 2- dimensional greyscale image into a 3-dimensional depth map. An advantage of this concept over techniques such as stereo imaging is that there is no so-called 'correspondence problem' where the corresponding location of a feature or landmark point must be identified in each of the stereo images. The majority - and the most successful - of previous researchers in DfD have used some variation of a 'two-image' technique in order to separate the contribution of the original scene features from the defocus effect. The best of those have achieved results typically in the range of 1% to 2% error in the accuracy of depth estimation. This book presents a single-image method of generating a high-density, high-accuracy depth map via the evaluation of the edge profiles of a projected structured light pattern. The final solution generates a depth map of up to 240,000 spatially invariant depth estimates per scene image, with an accuracy of within +/- 0.5% over a depth range of 10cm.