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Cecile De Cat's account of dislocation in French (as in    Le chocolat, c'est bon) throws new light on French syntax and prosody, and makes an important and original contribution to the study of linguistic interfaces. It also provides new insights into the acquisition of French as first language....

Leading philosopher of art Cynthia Freeland investigates some of the fascinating and fundamental questions posed by the art of portraiture, such as: What do portraits tell us? What do they mean? What makes a picture into a portrait? And can a picture of an animal ever really be a portrait?...

Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires.     Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory....

Philosophers have struggled to explain how literary fiction can be such an important source of insight into the human condition. John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world....

1880-1917 A History of US Book 8For the captains of industry-men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford-the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big...

Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants        has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's        climate. Plants have also become essential to humans not only in the form of cereal        crops, fruit, and vegetables, but in their many other uses in wood and paper, and...