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14 produkter
Language Classification by Numbers
Av Robert McMahon, April McMahon
E-bok, 2005
638 kr
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This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future. It describes and applies computer programs from biology and evolutionary genetics to data about languages and shows how the power of the computer can be harnessed to …
Language Classification by Numbers
Av April McMahon, Robert McMahon
Inbunden, 2005
1316 kr
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This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulated, and offers a series of demonstrations that the new techniques applied to old data …
Language Classification by Numbers
Av April McMahon, Robert McMahon
Häftad, 2005
1393 kr
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This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future. It describes and applies computer programs from biology and evolutionary genetics to data about languages and shows how the power of the computer can be harnessed to …
The Cold War on the Periphery
The United States, India, and Pakistan
Inbunden, 1994
1977 kr
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Focusing on the two tumultuous decades framed by Indian independence in 1947 and the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, The Cold War on the Periphery explores the evolution of American policy toward the subcontinent. McMahon analyzes the motivations behind America's pursuit of Pakistan and India as …
The Cold War on the Periphery
The United States, India, and Pakistan
Häftad, 1996
667 kr
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Focusing on the two tumultuous decades framed by Indian independence in 1947 and the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965, The Cold War on the Periphery explores the evolution of American policy toward the subcontinent. McMahon analyzes the motivations behind America's pursuit of Pakistan and India as …
The Limits of Empire
The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II
Inbunden, 1999
2293 kr
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In the years following World War II, as the United States began to focus on the global containment of communism, few regions of the world were considered as much of a potential battleground as Southeast Asia. Robert McMahon contends that policymakers exaggerated the significance of the region …
The Limits of Empire
The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II
Häftad, 1999
324 kr
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In the years following World War II, as the United States began to focus on the global containment of communism, few regions of the world were considered as much of a potential battleground as Southeast Asia. Robert McMahon contends that policymakers exaggerated the significance of the region …
Evolutionary Linguistics
Av April McMahon, Robert McMahon
Inbunden, 2012
1610 kr
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How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in …
Evolutionary Linguistics
Av April McMahon, Robert McMahon
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in …
Fingerlings
An Adoption
E-bok, 2021
59 kr
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The fingerlings are stories of what happens in the lives of finger puppets when they mix in the lives of children, many adventures occur which are of much interest to children that don't have puppets of their own. Each story is an area of interest in a child's life.
Environmental Protection Agency
Structuring Motivation in a Green Bureaucracy -- The Conflict Between Regulatory Style and Cultural Identity
Inbunden, 2006
1907 kr
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By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the institutions of government -- this book challenges the contemporary wisdom that recommends holistic and integrated institutional …
Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent
Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante
Häftad, 2006
709 kr
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The Confessions, Proslogion, and Consolation of Philosophy, like the Divine Comedy, all enact Platonist ascents. Each has a pilgrim figure, guided dialogically on a journey of understanding. Each rises to progressively higher levels of understanding and culminates in a supreme intellectual vision. …
