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This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material. The essays bring a refreshing new perspective to central issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology....

Text, Translation, and CommentaryIn   Ennead II.1 (40) Plotinus grapples both with the philosophical issue of personal identity through time and with the rich tradition of cosmology which pitted the Platonists against the Aristotelians and Stoics. James Wilberding presents an extensive introduction, the text itself, and a commentary offering a...

A Very Short IntroductionDictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this    Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written....

Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United        States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts for their presence. This book is        part of an effort to include Puerto Ricans in Chicago's history. Rua traces Puerto        Ricans' construction of identity in a narrative that begins in 1945, when a...

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language. It shows that, though its dominant word order was subject-verb-object, this coexisted with subject-object-verb. Professor Xu describes the typological changes that have taken place since the Han period and shows how Chinese evolved...