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An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology#N/A...

A highly accessible study of representations of transgressive women in Latin love poetry and British television drama, in Roman historiography and nineteenth-century Italian anthropology, on classical coinage and college websites, as poetic metaphor and in the Hollywood star system....

Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and        the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities,        mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep        concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take        different...

Setting the World Ablaze is a biographical study of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and their struggle to erect a new nation. The three sections of Ferling's study chronologically examine major epochs in the lives of the three men: youth and early adulthood, the years surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence,...

Language on the Edge of Science and TechnologyThe technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), crowdsourcing (outsourcing to the masses), or in vitro...

The volume will be of interest to readers seeking to understand debates about democracy in developing societies and to grasp the concepts, theories and methods that are currently being developed to study Latin American politics....