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This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar, and will be a resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a representative overview of its many sub-theories and applications....

Updated EditionLong acknowledged as a classic text on strategy, Sun Tzu&'s The Art of War has been admired by leaders as diverse as Mao Zedong and General Norman Schwartzkopf. However, having been written two thousand years ago, the book can be somewhat daunting to the modern reader.   Mark McNeilly, author of Sun Tzu and the Art of Business (OUP,...

In Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome, Luke Roman offers a major new approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the modern interpretation of art and literature, &'aesthetic autonomy&' refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its own, separate from ordinary activities and detached from quotidian interests. While...

Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in RajasthanDrawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of...

Bose condensation and Cooper pairing in condensed-matter systemsStarting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed...

J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the Invention of Desire, 1805-1929Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the...