Verb Valency Patterns: A Challenge for Semantics-Based Accounts By Susen Faulhaber
2011 | 357 Pages | ISBN: 3110240718 | PDF | 2 MB
Based on an empirical study of English verbs, the author discusses to what extent complementation is predictable from meaning by examining whether semantically similar verbs also exhibit the same syntactic properties. The significant number of idiosyncrasies presented rigorously challenge approaches that assume meaning to be the determining force in complementation.
Vader, Voldemort and Other Villains: Essays on Evil in Popular Media By Jamey Heit, Jamey Heit
2011 | 233 Pages | ISBN: 0786458453 | PDF | 2 MB
What is evil? How do we understand it in our culture? The thirteen essays in this critical volume explore the different ways in which evil is portrayed in popular culture, particularly film and novels. Iconic figures of evil are considered, as is the repeated use of classic themes within our intellectual tradition. Topics covered include serial killers in film, the Twilight series, the Harry Potter series, Star Wars, and more. Collectively, these essays suggest how vital the notion of evil is to our culture, which in turn suggest a need to reflect on what it means to value what is good.
Carole Boston Weatherford (Author), Floyd Cooper, "Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1541581202 | 32 pages | EPUB | 65.1 MB
Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for Author and Illustrator
Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security By Ann Rogers, John Hill
2014 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0745333346 | PDF | 6 MB
Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad. Unmanned details the causes and deadly consequences of this terrifying new development in warfare, and explores the implications for international law and global peace. Ann Rogers and John Hill argue that drones represent the first truly globalised technology of war. The book shows how unmanned systems are changing not simply how wars are fought, but the meaning of conflict itself. Providing an unparalleled account of new forms of 21st century imperial warfare, Unmanned shows how drone systems dissolve the conventional obstacles of time and space that have traditionally shaped conflict in the international system. It considers the possibility that these weapons will become normalised in global conflict, raising the spectre of new, unpredictable and unaccountable forms of warfare.
Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation by Bruce Ecker
English | ISBN: 0415897173, 1032117540 | 244 pages | EPUB | September 24, 2012 | 1.66 Mb
In Unlocking the Emotional Brain, authors Ecker, Ticic, and Hulley equip readers to carry out focused, empathic therapy using the potent process of memory reconsolidation, the recently discovered and only known process for actually unlocking emotional memory at the synaptic level. The Routledge classic edition includes a new preface from the authors describing the book's widespread impact on psychotherapy since its initial publication.
Understanding Animal Behaviour: What to Measure and Why
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108483453 | 167 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
All students and researchers of behaviour - from those observing freely-behaving animals in the field to those conducting more controlled laboratory studies - face the problem of deciding what exactly to measure. Without a scientific framework on which to base them, however, such decisions are often unsystematic and inconsistent. Providing a clear and defined starting point for any behavioural study, this is the first book to make available a set of principles for how to study the organisation of behaviour and, in turn, for how to use those insights to select what to measure. The authors provide enough theory to allow the reader to understand the derivation of the principles, and draw on numerous examples to demonstrate clearly how the principles can be applied. By providing a systematic framework for selecting what behaviour to measure, the book lays the foundations for a more scientific approach for the study of behaviour.
Arnold van de Laar, "Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1250200105 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 16.3 mb
Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations―from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.
Laurence Tribe, "Uncertain Justice: the Roberts court and the constitution"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1250069351, 0805099093 | EPUB | pages: 401 | 0.8 mb
"Irresistible...A brilliantly layered account of the Roberts Court filled with memorable stories...This book is a joy to read from start to finish."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit
Treading the Deep: Inspirational Lessons on Life and Leadership by Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Bradley Jones
English | November 9th, 2021 | ISBN: 1631957651 | 338 pages | True EPUB | 5.10 MB
A story finally told from an enlisted soldier's unique perspective.
Martha Gellhorn, "Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 1585420905 | EPUB | pages: 294 | 0.8 mb
Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.