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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

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    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

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  • The Humanity of Christ as Instrument of Salvation

    A Study in Thomistic Christology

    Scripture teaches that God saves humanity through God's own actions and sufferings in Christ, thereby raising a key theological question: How can God use his own human actions and sufferings to bring about those things that he causes through divine power? To answer that question, J. David Moser here explores St. Thomas Aquinas's teaching that Christ's humanity is an instrument of the divinity. ... Read more

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  • Thinking in Chinese and English

    Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Whorfian Question

    Edited by David Moser ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Do Chinese and English speakers think differently? While the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis — the idea that language determines thought — has long been discredited, this book offers a more nuanced perspective on whether linguistic differences between Chinese and English influence how native speakers perceive the world. Bringing together a multidisciplinary collection of papers from ... Read more

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  • How and When to Be Your Own Doctor

    Table of ContentsForward by Steve SolomonChapter 1: How I Became a HygienistChapter 2: The Nature and Cause of DiseaseChapter 3: FastingChapter 4: Colon CleansingChapter 5: Diet and NutritionChapter 6: Vitamins and Other Food SupplementsChapter 7: The Analysis of Disease States—Helping the Body RecoverAppendices ... Read more

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  • Linear Models

    A Mean Model Approach

    Series series Probability and Mathematical Statistics
    Linear models, normally presented in a highly theoretical and mathematical style, are brought down to earth in this comprehensive textbook. Linear Models examines the subject from a mean model perspective, defining simple and easy-to-learn rules for building mean models, regression models, mean vectors, covariance matrices and sums of squares matrices for balanced and unbalanced data sets. The ... Read more

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  • The Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

    Dante's Divine Comedy has long enchanted its readers with its gruesome depictions of sordid sin, the lengths we go to find cleansing, and the hope of eternal life. In this book, Mosley seeks to respond to Dante's great poem with poetry of his own. For each of the one hundred cantos, Mosley has provided a ten-line poem written in terza rima, the rhyme scheme of Dante's epic. These poems are ... Read more

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    Paul (Unabridged)

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    10 hours 57 min

    In the quaint town of Willow Creek, a forbidden love blossoms between Paul, the enigmatic minister, and Virginia, the alluring young woman who challenges his faith. As their secret encounters ignite a fire within them, they must navigate the treacherous waters of societal expectations and the judgment of a watchful community. But when a shocking revelation threatens to tear them apart, Paul and ... Read more

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  • Introducing Language Typology

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory book, including sections on historical change, language acquisition, and language processing. Students will become familiar with the subject by working ... Read more

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

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  • Explain Me This

    Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

    Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation—such as "Explain me this" or "She considered to go"—doesn't sound quite right. In this incisive book, ... Read more

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  • Da Vinci Notebooks

    A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilisation. His celebrated notebooks display the astonishing range of his genius. Dan Brown's ... Read more

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