Oxford University Press

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. The book is based entirely on the author's fieldwork....

From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Wendell Berry's poignant evocations of the divine presence in nature, this book presents a selection of the best Christian poetry being written in English today. Featuring only poets who are currently writing and publishing, it focuses in depth on the work of about a dozen poets who are recognized...

The BiographyThe story of asthma stretches from antiquity to the present day, and perceptions of the disease have shifted with time. Mark Jackson describes not only the growing medical understanding of asthma, but shifting cultural views, from artisans' disease to Proust's elegant suffering. Asthma is part of the series,  Biographies of Diseases....

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Cellular automata are widely-used tools for simulation in physics, ecology, evolution, mathematics and other fields. They are also digital "e;toy universes"e; worthy of study in their own right, with a significant and growing body of enthusiastic investigators. This book will present many of the most interesting new developments and...