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When is wartime? On the surface, it is a period of time in which a society is at        war. But we now live in what President Obama has called "e;an age without surrender        ceremonies,"e; as the Administration announced an "e;end to conflict in Iraq,"e; even        though conflict on the ground is ongoing. It is no longer easy...

Building upon recent research on the history of women, Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women examines Swift, both as man and writer, in terms of women: women as intimates, acquaintances, subjects of satire, and those who have written about Swift. It considers women as mothers and nurses in Swift's personal life and his fictions, and it explores...

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic        knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be        understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing        the words and the first the rules for combining them. He proposes instead that...

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Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn        to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and        forgetful. Beyond these natural processes and events, external forces and        interventions instigate and disrupt change: test scores may rise after a...