This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages the author examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles, and investigates the historical...

"C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music" ist eine umfassende Biografie des britischen Komponisten C. Hubert H. Parry, geschrieben von Jeremy Dibble. Das Buch beleuchtet das Leben und die Karriere von Parry, der als einer der...

This eye-opening look at the emotions of everyday life is the first book to move beyond clinical jargon and popular psychology to really explain why people feel the way they do. Based on four decades of pioneering research, it explores...

Nancy C. Dorian's examination of the fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a number of explanations for delayed recognition of linguistic variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups. von...

Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox von Sorensen, Roy

Recent developments in the field of differential geometry have been so extensive that a new book with particular emphasis on current work in Riemannian geometry is clearly necessary. This new text brilliantly serves that purpose and...

"Directed Mutagenesis: A Practical Approach" von M. J. McPherson ist ein wissenschaftliches Fachbuch, das sich mit der Technik der gerichteten Mutagenese befasst. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die Methode, bei der DNA...

Through a sustained historical analysis of three of the most important issues in American politics--Social Security, environmental regulation, and federal education policy--Conservatism and American Political Development explores how...