Third Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2004. — 325 p. The third edition of the book widely recognized as providing the most readable and clearly articulated introduction to Cognitive Linguistics is fully revised and updated to include the considerable developments in Cognitive Linguistics since 1987. It covers recent research on polysemy, meaning relatedness and metaphors,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 552 p. The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought. Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities Explores the historical development of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 352 p. This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance meaning, illocutionary force, clause types,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 185 p. Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. Through an expressivist philosophy of poetry, he argues that we can understand some of the core questions in the philosophy of language. Mills highlights the continuity of...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 440 p. Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new material on upward...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 341 p. This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker',...
Eerdmans Publishing, 2023. — 110 p. What did the apostles’ Greek sound like? How should New Testament Greek be pronounced in our classrooms? Often students are taught Erasmian pronunciation, which does not even reproduce Erasmus’s own pronunciation faithfully, let alone that of the New Testament authors. But if we want to process the language of the New Testament the same way...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 464 p. This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance meaning, illocutionary force, clause types,...
Seventh Edition. — Lexis Nexis Australia, 2019. — 1662 p. Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive analysis of the practical and theoretical issues encountered in Australian civil procedure, including alternative dispute resolution. This text combines a wealth of primary and secondary materials from all jurisdictions....
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2022. — 752 p. This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how standard questions in historical linguistics - including word order...
Picador, 2023. — 495 p. In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered question is how to reconcile the two vital narratives that underpin the extraordinary but troubled events of 1917. One puts the blame squarely on Tsar Nicholas II and on...
Verlag C.H. Beck, 2006. — 131 p. Als die Römer frech geworden, zogen sie nach Deutschlands Norden. Unübersehbare Zeugnisse der sprichwörtlich gewordenen antik-römischen Expansion begegnen uns auch heute noch allenthalben in baulichen Überresten wie dem Limes und in zahlreichen Einzelfunden. Aber der Kontakt zwischen den Römern und den germanischen Stämmen gestaltete sich weit...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 192 p. Your guide to the conflicts and harmonies between private international law and UK and Scots law. EU law has greatly influenced national law in Scotland, the UK and the rest of Europe. As a result, private international law is an essential area of study and of increasing importance to lawyers throughout the EU. Private International...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 168 p. An essential reference for Arabic learners who want to be more confident in understanding and using Arabic in a business context, and for Arab learners of business English. Includes over 2000 key expressions in business Arabic arranged by theme: General; Data & Communication; Finance; Insurance; Law & Contract; Research & Production;...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 441 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library 2327). Selected excerpts from the work of modern Arabic writers are presented, with a brief biographical essay on each author. Selections are accompanied by linguistic and cultural annotations, by exercises in grammar and vocabulary, and by Arabic sentences to he translated. Originally published in 1964.
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 424 p. This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought in the long nineteenth century. Household Dissolution and the Construction of the Legal Family. Ideology and Population Management. The Invention of Family Law in English Scholarly Legal Thought. Law and the...
ISEAS Publishing, 2022. — 252 p. The book, which was first published in 1996, examines Indonesia’s foreign policy under Suharto. It not only details Indonesia’s foreign policy behaviour vis-à-vis Indonesia’s neighbours and major powers, but also places it in the context of foreign policy analysis. Today, the book remains as the only full-length study on Indonesia’s foreign...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 248 p. The geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countries. Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations. Corporations including...
Fordham University Press, 2023. — 239 p. This book examines the translation of Arabic literature into English, in conversation with contemporary literary scholarship and classical Arabic aesthetic and linguistic paradigms. Case studies reveal practices of translating that activate embodied forms of language and affective modes of reception to position Arabic literature...
Stanford University Press, 2023. — 225 p. From a globally renowned expert on Russian military strategy and national security, The Russian Way of Deterrence investigates Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of this strategy. Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky calls...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 177 p. How does law protect your ideas and privacy in Scotland and the UK? The Scots common law of property is strongly realist in its concepts, and restricts itself to tangible objects – objects, land, things attached to the land. But what about non-physical property, such as your intellectual property and your private personal information?...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 200 p. — (Japan and Global Society). Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat explains the dramatic shift in Japanese policy between the North Korean ballistic missile tests of 1998 and 2006. Japanese‒North Korean Relations, 2002‒2004. Japanese–North Korean Relations, 2004‒2006: Debates about Unilateral Sanctions.
University of California Press, 2008. — 380 p. This volume gathers sixteen essays on monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period and charts a new approach to Hellenistic history by focusing attention on biblical and Jewish evidence and reading that evidence in new ways. The essays consider the kings, queens, and power figures of the Hellenistic dynasties, as well as ancient...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 179 p. Your introductory guide to the laws that govern states and their interactions. From human rights and the use of force to settling disputes and the sea, this concise guide gives you the basic facts about international law. Learn about its history, discover how it has developed over time and find out which sources you should be accessing...
ISEAS Publishing, 2022. — 216 p. The book is a significant contribution to understanding the important yet shifting patterns of relationship between the monarchy and military in Thailand. It is widely known that the monarchy-military union has played crucial roles in politics throughout modern Thai history. This book: A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 710 p. — (Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics 1). There is a long-standing debate over the relation of historical linguistics and classical philology, especially within the purview of the renewed interest in it during the last decades and the recent trends that characterize philological and linguistic studies. Ever since its appearance in the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2023. — 50 p. Japanese Now is a popular four-year learning program used in numerous American secondary schools and universities. The first two years emphasize oral-aural skills; the third and fourth years offer reading selections while expanding vocabulary and grammatical patterns through conversation and discussion of Japanese culture and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 272 p. How and why the three losers of the Second World War reconsidered their pacifism, embraced a more active military role and transformed their armed forces after the Cold War: Analysis of the process of military transformation in Italy, Germany and Japan. Addresses the impact of historical legacies on the pacing and direction of...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 714 p. — (De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance). Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered the engines of worldwide economies and the main sources of job creation. Management in these companies is different from management in larger/older enterprises with their already established concepts and instruments. In view of the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 264 p. Examines Russian language politics and its impact on different Russian speaking communities: Explores the language situation and general use of Russian in everyday life, in print media, television and social media Looks at the politics of Russian in a range of countries including Ukraine, Belarus, Khazahkstan, Moldova, Ireland and...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 368 p. In 1941, the Franco regime established the Spanish Division of Volunteers to take part in the Russian campaign as a unit integrated into the German Wehrmacht. Recruited by both the Fascist Party (Falange) and the Spanish army, around 47,000 Spanish volunteers joined what would become known as the "Blue Division." The Spanish Blue...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 655 p. Analyses and critiques the key regulatory and commercial dimensions of the oil and gas industry. In recent years, a great deal has changed in the oil and gas industry, from legal and regulatory change to falling oil prices. The contemporary oil and gas industry is now intensely focussed on cost-saving and the UK has radical redrawn its...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 500 p. The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union. Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. — 241 p. Why nation branding is politically significant in understanding contemporary international politics. Today, nation branding is regarded as essential for competitiveness among countries. In academia, however, the idea is often dismissed as unserious. Bringing nation branding to the scholarly discourse, Browning critically unpacks...
Central European University Press, 2023. — 305 p. The increasing radicalization of political life in most countries in Europe lends special relevance to studies of the antifascist legacies on the continent. This insightful collection of essays is an in-depth review of antifascism in Slovenia, setting it in the context of related movements elsewhere in Europe. The period treated...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2024. — 529 p. The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. This fully revised edition not only updates several of the original chapters but introduces many...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. — 252 p. International political economy is both a discipline and a set of global practices and conditions. This volume explores how the two are related, illustrating the changing character of the global political economy, as well as changing perspectives on that character. The authors first consider how social issues, policy concerns, and...
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. — 232 p. — (Oceanic linguistics special publications 34). This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally collected by noted Tai linguist, the late William J. Gedney, the data are organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 288 p. This book tells the story of how two of America’s closest allies, Canada and Britain, have sought to reconcile their security concerns with their legal public obligations during two of the most significant international military conflicts since the Second World War.
Napoleon V, 2019. — 500 p. Zaletą Kolosa odrodzonego, ważnego osiągnięcia w dziedzinie przywracania i kultywowania pamięci o wojennym doświadczeniu całego narodu, jest niezrównany dostęp Glantza i wykorzystanie przez niego radzieckich źródeł archiwalnych. Pozwala mu to nie tylko rzucić światło na zwycięstwa Armii Czerwonej pod Moskwą, Stalingradem czy Kurskiem, ale także...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 232 p. This book maps the constellation of left-progressive foreign policy thought and conceptualizes grand strategy as worldmaking. It brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies and foreign policy practice to show that durable security prioritizes peace, democracy, and equality. By conceiving of grand strategy...
CRC Press, 2023. — 308 p. This book includes concepts, methodologies, and practices for achieving sustainability in business operations. The underlying concept is explained from two perspectives―organizational level and policy level. In the former, all principles, techniques, and decision-making issues relevant to sustainability at unit level, management of product recovery...
Routledge, 2023. — 225 p. This book examines the ways in which the views of the public inhabit the counter-terrorism policy space, with a focus on the UK case. Drawing insights from Critical Terrorism Studies, Critical Security Studies and studies of public opinion, the book develops an argument that the relationship between public opinion is complex, iterative and mutually...
Penguin Books, 2004. — 224 p. No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain. In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book. Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory the...
W.A.B., 2023. — 261 p. Pierwsza książka o kolonialnych aspiracjach Polski. „Bzik kolonialny” to nowy reportaż znakomitego historyka, który odkrywa przed nami zapomniany, wstydliwy wycinek dziejów Polski. Kiedy jesienią 1934 r. minister Józef Beck podejmował na raucie delegację rządu Liberii, goście, którzy przybyli do Warszawy z przyjacielską wizytą, nie podejrzewali, że na...
Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2023. — 504 p. Zajrzyjcie do świata przepychu, skandali i ogromnych majątków ziemskich! Radziwiłłowie – ród, który trząsł dawną Rzeczpospolitą, opisany w Sienkiewiczowskiej Trylogii, przedstawiony w filmach i serialach historycznych. Jego członkowie uczestniczyli w wielu ważnych wydarzeniach również w czasach nam bliższych. Dzięki interwencji Janusza...
Brill, 1986. — 211 p. Preface. Maps. Did the Early Bronze Age End? Evidence for Invasions. Art and the World of the Early Bronze Age. The Linguistic Evidence: Is There Any? Who Were the Immigrants? The Early Bronze Age in West Anatolia: Aegean and Asiatic Correlations. Why Was Crete Different? Bibliography. Index.
Brill, 2023. — 595 p. — (Historical Materialism 298). The leading Western expert on Soviet Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, gives us the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Vivid case-studies of individual leaders and Soviet intellectuals paint an indispensable self-portrait of Bolshevism and its grand narratives.
Clarendon Press, 1997. — 455 p. Societies are defined at their margins. In the ancient Greek world bastards were often marginalized, their affinities being with the female, the alien, the servile, the poor, and the sick. The study of bastardy in ancient Greece is therefore of an importance that goes far beyond the subject's intrinsic interest, and it provides insights into the...
Routledge, 2019. — 362 p. The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia provides a rich study of human rights challenges facing some of the most vulnerable people in Asia. While formal accession to core international human rights instruments is commonplace across the region, the realisation of human rights for many remains elusive as development pressure, violent conflict,...