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The Reception History of Genesis 3: 22-24In Remembering Eden, Peter Thacher Lanfer seeks to evaluate texts that expand and        explicitly interpret the expulsion narrative of Adam and Eve in Genesis beyond the        biblical canon....

The prosecution plays a crucial part in any international war crimes trial, but        its role is rarely analysed. This book will assess the work of the prosecutor in a        dozen international criminal courts and tribunals, setting out the applicable rules        and analysing his or her independence, accountability, and political impact....

This volume of new work by prominent phonologists goes to the heart of current debates in phonological and linguistic theory: should the explanation of phonological variety be constraint or rule-based and, in the light of the resolution of this question, how in the mind does phonology interface with other components of the grammar....

The Arc of the PendulumThis book offers wide-ranging coverage of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and reception across fifteen thematically cohesive chapters. Taking as its point of departure William Hazlitt's famous comparison between Johnson's prose style and a pendulum, this volume will contest and rebalance the metaphor of the pendulum....

Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the        literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the        context within which such items are being used), and assesses recent answers to the        fundamental questions of how and where to draw the divide between the two....

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