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The Prosody of Greek Speech

By: A.M. Devine,Laurence D Stephens

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The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from eliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally be answered in the laboratory. In this work, the authors interpret the evidence of Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on crosslinguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data, and reconstruct the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing, and intonation of classical Greek speech. Sophisticated statistical analyses are employed to support an impressive range of new findings which relate not only to phonetics and phonology, but also to pragmatics and the syntax-phonology interface.

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Oxford University Press

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019972413X

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The Happy Accident

By: Laurence Stoll

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The Happy Accident

By: Laurence Stoll

The Happy Accident is a story of one man's effort to put his unhappy past behind him by running away from everything he loves. It is an effort that is doomed to fail. Brad Burke grew up in the shadow of his younger brother, Morris. He faces constant scrutiny from his mother and ridicule from his peers. The only person that ever supports him is Emily, a childhood friend and the love of his life. When WWII breaks out, he is able to do something that his brother can't-join the navy. However, after a horrible accident leaves his foot crushed, Brad comes home from the navy-only to find his beloved Emily married to his brother and pregnant with Morris's child. In his search for peace, Brad travels across the United States, rediscovers old friends, stumbles into wealth, finds a new love, Audrey, and uncovers a new faith. That faith is to be tested again and again until he finally surrenders himself to God. Brad's, Emily's, and Audrey's lives are to be intertwined in a way they never imagined. The Happy Accident is a story of love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, until Brad and his true love meet their destiny together.

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Tate Publishing

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1617393797

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Chemical Ocular Burns

New Understanding and Treatments

By: Norbert Schrage,François Burgher,Jöel Blomet,Lucien Bodson,Max Gerard,Alan Hall,Patrice Josset,Laurence Mathieu,Harold Merle

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Chemical Ocular Burns

New Understanding and Treatments

By: Norbert Schrage,François Burgher,Jöel Blomet,Lucien Bodson,Max Gerard,Alan Hall,Patrice Josset,Laurence Mathieu,Harold Merle

More than 25,000 chemical products have the potential to cause ocular burns. Because such burns can result in loss of sight or the need for corneal transplantation, they must be taken very seriously. This book is the first to be devoted entirely to chemical ocular burns. All aspects of the subject are covered, including history, epidemiology, chemical agents and reactions, histology, pathophysiology, clinical signs, medical and surgical treatments, and emergency care. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms involved in ocular burns and to the links between the chemical reactivity of corrosive agents and the clinical manifestations. Current principles of decontamination are fully explained and the latest treatment techniques are discussed in detail. This book stands at the interface of the chemical and medical sciences. It will be of great practical value to ophthalmologists and doctors in emergency medical and burns units, and will acquaint chemists with the clinical consequences of corrosivity.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642145507

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9783642145506

The Allyn & Bacon Handbook

By: Leonard J. Rosen,Laurence Behrens

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The Allyn & Bacon Handbook

By: Leonard J. Rosen,Laurence Behrens

It's a profession where the dynamics of fear, fast cars, faster money, and spontaneous, yet controlled violence, need to be properly understood. You must balance brute force with intelligent instinct, know every escape route blindfolded, and spot the trouble-makers before they make their move. Because when you're leaving the scene of a crime at 100mph, just one forced error can spell death. This is the phenomenal autobiography of one of the most daring armed robbers of his generation. He reveals the secrets of his success, and tells how while on the run he came to be Britain's most wanted criminal, leading to the gripping chain of events that led to his last ill-fated job. It was a job that nearly cost him his life and left him facing a 20-year stretch.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321106202

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9780321106209

Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines

By: Laurence Behrens

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Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines

By: Laurence Behrens

Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines is targeted at the composition and developmental writing market at the college or university level. This text prepares university and college students to write essays and to become familiar with reading academic and popular readings across a variety of disciplines.

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0321328264

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9780321328267

Making the Case

An Argument Reader

By: Laurence Behrens

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Making the Case

An Argument Reader

By: Laurence Behrens

Focusing on legal issues, this book promotes the skills of written argument by stimulating readers to think and write about actual, compelling court cases. Its application of general rules to specific disputes provides an ideal approach to the development of logical thought and argument. Each chapter features broad and narrow issues of conflict to help explore the roles of jury members, prosecutors, and defense attorneys--and explain how to make claims (i.e., arrive at verdicts), based on support (the facts and evidence of the case itself), applying standards (the relevant laws). General issues include law and society, arguing effectively, emotional distress, homicide, freedom of speech, search and seizure, and sexual harassment. Sub-issues cover law and engagement rings, hot coffee spills, parental failure to control children, skiing accidents, barroom brawls, and high school sports injuries. For individuals interested but untrained in the law, fascinated by human drama, and curious about our duties and responsibilities to other people and our society at large.

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Pearson

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0130154008

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9780130154002

Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites

New Edition

By: Laurence Parent

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Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites

New Edition

By: Laurence Parent

The essential guide to Texas’s state parks and historic sites. Updated with a new park, Palo Pinto Mountains State Park west of Forth Worth; new historic sites; and scores of beautiful new photographs, the Official Guide to Texas State Parks has all the essential information organized by geographical regions to help you plan your great Texas adventure. The only complete resource of its kind on Texas, Laurence Parent’s Official Guide to Texas State Parks is the trusted source, with more than sixty-five thousand copies sold over the past thirty years. Praise for Previous Editions “Texas state-park fans should be thrilled. . . . Official Guide to Texas State Parks is the ultimate book detailing Texas’s state parks.”—Dallas Morning News “This book will make you want to hit the road to visit the natural splendor of Texas.”—Houston Chronicle “It’s good enough for a coffee table or a campfire. The Official Guide to Texas State Parks gives you sleek photography, maps, narratives, and loads of information.”—Southern Living “The newly updated Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites . . . has beautiful color photographs and insights on camping, fishing, horseback riding, and other recreational opportunities around the state.”—Texas Journey

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University of Texas Press

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1477328661

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9781477328668

HIV and Respiratory Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

By: Kristina Crothers,Laurence Huang,Alison Morris

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HIV and Respiratory Disease, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine

By: Kristina Crothers,Laurence Huang,Alison Morris

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine is Guest Edited by Kristina Crothers, MD from the University of Washington and will focus on HIV and Respiratory Disease. Article topics include Abnormalities in Host Defense, Antiretroviral Therapy and Lung Immunology, HIV associated Pneumonia, HIV associated Tuberculosis, HIV associated lung malignancies, and HIV associated COPD.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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145577149X

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Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum

By: Laurence Behrens,Leonard J. Rosen

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Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum

By: Laurence Behrens,Leonard J. Rosen

This brief version of the best—selling cross—curricular classic retains its hallmark coverage of source—based writing skills combined with five popular readings chapters. This portable version represents a carefully—chosen selection from the original edition, with five (of the original seven) readings chapters included in their entirety. The abbreviated rhetoric section still covers the skills of summary, critique, and synthesis, taking students step—by—step through the process of writing papers based on source material. Students then put these skills to practice on thematically—linked essays on provocative topics in the discipline—specific readings chapters. A stronger focus on argumentation addresses the trend found in today's composition classrooms. Individuals interested in writing from sources and academic writing in different disciplines.

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Longman Publishing Group

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032111308X

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9780321113085

The Prosody of Greek Speech

By: A. M. Devine Professor of Classics Stanford University,Chapel Hill Laurence D. Stephens Adjunct Professor of Classics University of North Carolina

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The Prosody of Greek Speech

By: A. M. Devine Professor of Classics Stanford University,Chapel Hill Laurence D. Stephens Adjunct Professor of Classics University of North Carolina

The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from reliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally be answered in the laboratory. In this work, the authors interpret the evidence of Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on crosslinguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data, and reconstruct the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing, and intonation of classical Greek speech. Sophisticated statistical analyses are employed to support an impressive range of new findings which relate not only to phonetics and phonology, but also to pragmatics and the syntax-phonology interface.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195359038

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Reducing Inequalities

A Sustainable Development Challenge

By: Rémi Genevey,R. K. Pachauri,Laurence Tubiana

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Reducing Inequalities

A Sustainable Development Challenge

By: Rémi Genevey,R. K. Pachauri,Laurence Tubiana

The reduction of inequalities within and between countries stands as a policy goal, and deserves to take centre stage in the design of the Sustainable Development Goals agreed during the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.The 2013 edition of A Planet for Life represents a unique international initiative grounded on conceptual and strategic thinking, and â€“ most importantly â€“ empirical experiments, conducted on five continents and touching on multiple realities. This unprecedented collection of works proposes a solid empirical approach, rather than an ideological one, to inform future debate.The case studies collected in this volume demonstrate the complexity of the new systems required to accommodate each country's specific economic, political and cultural realities. These systems combine technical, financial, legal, fiscal and organizational elements with a great deal of applied expertise, and are articulated within a clear, well-understood, growth- and job-generating development strategy.Inequality reduction does not occur by decree; neither does it automatically arise through economic growth, nor through policies that equalize incomes downward via ill conceived fiscal policies. Inequality reduction involves a collaborative effort that must motivate all concerned parties, one that constitutes a genuine political and social innovation, and one that often runs counter to prevailing political and economic forces.

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The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

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8179935302

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9788179935309

Step by Step LASIK Surgery

By: Namrata Sharma,Rasik B. Vajpayee,Laurence Sullivan

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Step by Step LASIK Surgery

By: Namrata Sharma,Rasik B. Vajpayee,Laurence Sullivan

A decade after the introduction of the LASIK technique in refractive surgery, the technique has reached its maturity. Thoroughly researched and easy to read, Step by Step LASIK Surgery provides practical information regarding the various aspects of LASIK surgery. Expert LASIK surgeons share their experiences with this state-of-the-art surgical technique. The book is organized in a simple and effective style that presents a step-by-step approach to LASIK surgery. It includes information about the latest microkertomes and excimer laser machines and specific surgical techniques like LASEK, LASIK for post-penetrating keratoplasty, ametropias, and wavefront guided LASIK.

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CRC Press

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1841844691

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9781841844695

Earth at Risk

Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability

By: Claude Henry,Laurence Tubiana

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Earth at Risk

Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability

By: Claude Henry,Laurence Tubiana

We are squandering our planet’s natural capital—its biodiversity, water and soil, and climate stability—at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though technology has been one of the drivers of the current trend of unsustainable development, it is also one of the essential tools for remedying it. Earth at Risk maps out the necessary transition to sustainability, detailing the innovations in science and technology, along with law, institutional design, and economics, that can and must be put to use to avert environmental catastrophe. Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana begin with a measure of the costs of ecological damage—the erosion of biodiversity; air, water, and soil pollution; and the wide-reaching effects of climate change—and then consider the solutions that are either now available or close on the horizon and that may lead to a more sustainable global trajectory. What community-driven or market-based tools can be used to promote sustainable development? How can renewable energy and energy storage advances help us decrease our use of fossil fuels? How can we substitute agroecology for the damaging chemical methods of industrialized agriculture? Is international agreement on climate goals possible? Building on the experience of the most significant climate negotiation of the decade, Earth at Risk shows what a world organized along the principles of sustainability could look like, no matter how optimistic it may seem at the present moment. Though formidable obstacles remain to the realization of this significant transition, Henry and Tubiana present the case for collective initiatives and change that build momentum for implementation and action.

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Columbia University Press

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023154491X

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9780231544917

Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes

By: Laurence Robb

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Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes

By: Laurence Robb

A comprehensive account of ore-forming processes, revised and updated The revised second edition of Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes offers a guide to the multiplicity of geological processes that result in the formation of mineral deposits. The second edition has been updated to reflect the most recent developments in the study of metallogeny and earth system science. This second edition contains new information about global tectonic processes and crustal evolution that continues to influence the practice of economic geology and maintains the supply of natural resources in a responsible and sustainable way. The replenishment of depleted natural resources is becoming more difficult and environmentally challenging. There is also a change in the demand for mineral commodities and the concern around the non-sustainable supply of ‘critical metals’ is now an important consideration for planners of the future. The book puts the focus on the responsible custodianship of natural resources and the continuing need for all earth scientists to understand metallogeny and the resource cycle. This new edition: Provides an updated guide to the processes involved in the formation of mineral deposits Offers an overview of magmatic, hydrothermal and sedimentary ore-forming processes Covers the entire range of mineral deposit types, including the fossil fuels and supergene ores Relates metallogeny to global tectonics by examining the distribution of mineral deposits in space and time Contains examples of world famous ore deposits that help to provide context and relevance to the process-oriented descriptions of ore genesis Written for students and professionals alike, Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes offers a revised second edition that puts the focus on the fact that mineral deposits are simply one of the many natural wonders of geological process and evolution.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119967503

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9781119967507

The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

By: Laurence Scott

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The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

By: Laurence Scott

You are a four-dimensional human. Each of us exists in three-dimensional, physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows, and anxieties of a networked world? And how do we live in public with these recoded private lives? Laurence Scott—hailed as a "New Generation Thinker" by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC—shows how this four-dimensional life is dramatically changing us by redefining our social lives and extending the limits of our presence in the world. Blending tech-philosophy with insights on everything from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, Scott stands with a rising generation of social critics hoping to understand our new reality. His virtuosic debut is a revelatory and original exploration of life in the digital age.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393353087

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9780393353082

The Proscenium Cage

Critical Case Studies in U.S. Prison Theatre Programs

By: Laurence Tocci

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The Proscenium Cage

Critical Case Studies in U.S. Prison Theatre Programs

By: Laurence Tocci

This book is an examination of sample companies that produce theatre with and for prison inmates. It is a careful compilation of comprehensive case studies of three such producing companies. Based on personal interviews, newspaper reviews and articles, and other testimonials from participants, each case study catalogs the working processes of the given company, the conditions they faced working in the prison environment, and how the theatre-artists tailored their work to meet these conditions. Alongside the empirical study of the companies, the author has employed prevalent theories from criminology and penology, as well as applicable performance theory, to discuss the significance of the theatre work as a social phenomenon within the very specific culture of the prison. From these individual studies, the author draws conclusions about the potential importance and place theatre could have in the penal system. This book, a first study of its kind, is a groundbreaking and important contribution to theatre studies.

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1934043753

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