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Martin Ritt

Interviews

By: Martin Ritt

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Interviews

By: Martin Ritt

A collection of interviews with one of America's preeminent makers of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Interviews

By: Martin Ritt

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A collection of interviews with one of America's preeminent makers of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South

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Markov Decision Processes

Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming

By: Martin L. Puterman

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Markov Decision Processes

Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming

By: Martin L. Puterman

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "This text is unique in bringing together so many results hitherto found only in part in other texts and papers. . . . The text is fairly self-contained, inclusive of some basic mathematical results needed, and provides a rich diet of examples, applications, and exercises. The bibliographical material at the end of each chapter is excellent, not only from a historical perspective, but because it is valuable for researchers in acquiring a good perspective of the MDP research potential." —Zentralblatt fur Mathematik ". . . it is of great value to advanced-level students, researchers, and professional practitioners of this field to have now a complete volume (with more than 600 pages) devoted to this topic. . . . Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming represents an up-to-date, unified, and rigorous treatment of theoretical and computational aspects of discrete-time Markov decision processes." —Journal of the American Statistical Association

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118625870

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9781118625873

The Evolution of the Western

The American Frontier in Film and Television

By: Martin Kich

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The Evolution of the Western

The American Frontier in Film and Television

By: Martin Kich

Explore the enduring influence of the Western – the quintessential American film genre – and its essential role in US and world culture. Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, like Unforgiven and No Country for Old Men, that provide a more complex and nuanced take on history of the West. Perhaps more than any other pop culture genre, the Western allows us to view how Americans have seen themselves over the last 150 years. Build a foundational understanding of the genre with 5 introductory essays, exploring the development of the Western Mythos in the traditional Western, the heyday of the traditional Western in the post-WWII period, revisionist Westerns and the counterculture, race and identify, and the Western outside of the USA. Close to 100 encyclopedia entries examine one or more movies or television programs and show how their creation and plots demonstrate the overall evolution of the genre. Easily compare films and TV programs – from early genre favorites such as Gunsmoke to more recent releases like Django Unchained – with essential facts boxes accompanying each entry, with information on the director, studio, key actors, and box office receipts.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Fictions of Home

Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000

By: Martin Mühlheim

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Fictions of Home

Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000

By: Martin Mühlheim

This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home. In detailed readings of one film and six novels, a view is developed according to which home, as a spatio-temporal imaginary, is rooted in our species being, and as such constitutes the inevitable starting point for any progressive politics.

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Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

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3772056377

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9783772056376

Lubaroff & Altman on Delaware Limited Partnerships

By: Martin I. Lubaroff,Paul M. Altman

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Lubaroff & Altman on Delaware Limited Partnerships

By: Martin I. Lubaroff,Paul M. Altman

The first complete guide containing everything needed to form, operate and dissolve a Delaware limited partnership, including forms prepared by the authors, explanations of every statutory section, and analysis of fiduciary duties, protections, reorganization, foreign limited partnerships, derivative actions, and indemnification rights. By Martin I. Lubaroff and Paul M. Altman. The text of every section of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, as revised from 1983 through 2011, is set out in full, showing additions and deletions in each version of the act. The explanations of every statutory section cover all practical aspects of forming, operating, and dissolving a limited partnership. Thorough explanations of statutory provisions are integrated with detailed analysis of case law from Delaware. Plus, timely coverage is given to critical legal issues: Fiduciary duties of the partners Protections related to the liability of limited partners Defining the financial aspects of the limited partnership General and limited partners Reorganization of a limited partnership with or into other types of business entities Foreign limited partnerships Derivative actions Indemnification rights that can be granted to partners under a partnership agreement Delaware limited liability companies

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Wolters Kluwer

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1567062881

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9781567062885

Richard Wagner

A Life in Music

By: Martin Geck

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Richard Wagner

A Life in Music

By: Martin Geck

“[An] intriguing exploration of the composer’s life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography.” —Library Journal Best known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the development of European music is indisputable, Wagner was also quite outspoken on the politics and culture of his time. His ideas traveled beyond musical circles into philosophy, literature, theater staging, and the visual arts. To befit such a dynamic figure, acclaimed biographer Martin Geck offers here a Wagner biography unlike any other, one that strikes a unique balance between the technical musical aspects of Wagner’s compositions and his overarching understanding of aesthetics. A landmark study of one of music’s most important figures “People who would like to know more about Wagner, and people who have loved his music for years . . . will find a great deal in this book to enjoy and to admire.” —Tablet “Geck describes a Wagner who is grounded, focused and even cautious, a savvy realist and ironist rather than a flamboyant, flailing ideologue . . . Suffused with his readings of contemporary productions of the operas, Geck’s musical analyses are succinct and superb” —New York Times “As an editor of Wagner’s Complete Works, Geck brings a deep familiarity with the composer to his task.” —Weekly Standard “A thoroughly approachable yet consistently provocative study.” —Thomas S. Grey, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Wagner

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University of Chicago Press

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0226924629

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9780226924625

A Singular Introduction to Commutative Algebra

By: Gert-Martin Greuel,Gerhard Pfister

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A Singular Introduction to Commutative Algebra

By: Gert-Martin Greuel,Gerhard Pfister

This substantially enlarged second edition aims to lead a further stage in the computational revolution in commutative algebra. This is the first handbook/tutorial to extensively deal with SINGULAR. Among the book’s most distinctive features is a new, completely unified treatment of the global and local theories. Another feature of the book is its breadth of coverage of theoretical topics in the portions of commutative algebra closest to algebraic geometry, with algorithmic treatments of almost every topic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540735410

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9783540735410

Using German

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

By: Martin Durrell

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Using German

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

By: Martin Durrell

This is an extensively revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Using German.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521530008

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9780521530002

Images of Idiocy

The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film

By: Martin Halliwell

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Images of Idiocy

The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film

By: Martin Halliwell

This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Rohinton Mistry, and filmmakers such as Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog and John Huston have all been attracted to idiot figures as a way of thinking through issues of language acquisition, intelligence, creativity, disability, religion and social identity. Martin Halliwell provides a lively and detailed discussion of the most significant literary and cinematic uses of idiocy, arguing that scientific conceptions of the term as a classifiable medical condition are much too narrow. With the explosion of interest in idiocy among American and European filmmakers in the 1990s and the growing interest in its often overlooked history, this book offers a timely reassessment of idiocy and its distinctive place at the intersection of science and culture.

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Routledge

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1351928848

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9781351928847

Adolescent Smoking and Health Research

By: Martin M. Lapointe

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Adolescent Smoking and Health Research

By: Martin M. Lapointe

Cigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence produces significant health problems among young people, including cough and phlegm production, an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness, an unfavourable lipid profile and potential retardation in the rate of lung growth and the level of maximum lung function in addition to leading to long-term smoking and the numerous diseases connected with that including cancer and others. In this new book adolescent smoking is researched pertaining to the health complications that young adults will endure, as well as the different social aspects of what causes an adolescent to begin smoking in the first place including peer pressure. Several methods of smoking cessation are discussed.

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Nova Publishers

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1604560460

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9781604560466

The Bitter End

Hanging Out at America's Nightclub

By: Paul Colby,Martin Fitzpatrick

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The Bitter End

Hanging Out at America's Nightclub

By: Paul Colby,Martin Fitzpatrick

Owner Paul Colby recalls the club's transformation from a small coffeehouse into the pre-eminent music and comedy venue that is still going strong today.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815412061

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9780815412069

American Culture in the 1950s

By: Martin Halliwell

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American Culture in the 1950s

By: Martin Halliwell

This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.

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336

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748628908

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9780748628902

Analysis of Failure in Fiber Polymer Laminates

The Theory of Alfred Puck

By: Martin Knops

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Analysis of Failure in Fiber Polymer Laminates

The Theory of Alfred Puck

By: Martin Knops

Written by Puck's pupil and appointed successor Martin Knops, this book presents Alfred Puck ́s failure model, which, among several other theories, predicts fracture limits best and describes the failure phenomena in FRP most realistically – as confirmed within the "World-wide Failure Exercise". Using Puck ́s model the composite engineer can follow the gradual failure process in a laminate and deduce from the results of the analysis how to improve the laminate design.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540757643

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9783540757641

Privacy

Defending an Illusion

By: Martin Dowding

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Privacy

Defending an Illusion

By: Martin Dowding

Matters of privacy have profoundly changed since electronic storage of information has become the norm. Consequently, policy-makers and legislators are trying to keep up with privacy challenges in the workplace, in healthcare, in surveillance, and on social networking sites. With Privacy: Defending an Illusion, Martin Dowding fills a very important gap in policy analysis and the teaching of privacy issues at the senior undergraduate and early graduate student level. In the first section of this book, Dowding recounts historical interpretations of privacy in a wide variety of socio-cultural circumstances. In the second section, the author addresses how information and communication technologies have changed our conceptions about privacy and redirected our focus from keeping information private to sharing it with many more people than we would have even a few years ago. Dowding also examines a variety of possible options for the future of privacy. The appendixes include seminal readings on relevant topics that should encourage debates about the nature of privacy and its problems. Overall, this book provides a solid background for defining and understanding privacy in a wide variety of contexts.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810881039

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9780810881037

Features of Common Sense Geography

Implicit Knowledge Structures in Ancient Geographical Texts

By: Klaus Geus,Martin Thiering

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Features of Common Sense Geography

Implicit Knowledge Structures in Ancient Geographical Texts

By: Klaus Geus,Martin Thiering

The contributions in this volume combine fundamental questions of common sense geography with case studies of ancient geographical texts. The book bridges synchronic cognitive linguistic and cognitive psychological approaches to the ancient texts with a diachronic perspective. The mental modeling of common sense geography is a fruitful theoretical approach, to gain deeper insights in universal and cultural-specific mnemonic representational systems on the one hand, and to enhance our understanding of ancient geography on the other. (Series: Ancient Culture and History / Antike Kultur und Geschichte - Vol. 16)

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376

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643905289

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9783643905284

British Film Editors

The Heart of the Movie

By: Roy Perkins,Martin Stollery

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British Film Editors

The Heart of the Movie

By: Roy Perkins,Martin Stollery

First book on British feature-film editing.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838714820

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9781838714826

Essential German Grammar

By: Martin Durrell,Katrin Kohl,Claudia Kaiser,Gudrun Loftus

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Essential German Grammar

By: Martin Durrell,Katrin Kohl,Claudia Kaiser,Gudrun Loftus

Essential German Grammar is a student-friendly grammar and workbook designed to give learners a firm foundation on which to build a real understanding of both spoken and written German. The reference grammar section offers clear explanations of key grammar points while a separate exercise section gives students the opportunity to test themselves and put into practice what they have learned. This new edition has been revised and updated throughout. Explanations, tables and exercises have been improved and a number of the authentic texts and illustrations have been replaced by new material. Key features of this second edition include: User-friendly layout with updated 2 colour design, engaging illustrations and visually appealing tables throughout to aid the learning process Clear and accessible explanations with memorable examples informed by the latest research on the German language and presented in accordance with current teaching methodology Helpful parallels between English and German provided where relevant End-of-chapter extracts taken from contemporary journalistic or authentic literary sources, illustrating grammar in context, with model translations provided at the back of the book Material to enable better strategic learning and understanding, including a Why Grammar?—FAQ section, a glossary of grammatical terms in both English and German and a complete answer key to exercises Created especially for the new edition, a companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/kaiser offering a wealth of additional materials, including interactive exercises, quizzes and flashcards to test student understanding, downloadable PDF sheets for classroom use, PowerPoint slides for instructors and audio recordings illustrating the sounds of spoken German. Written by highly experienced lecturers in the field, Essential German Grammar is an invaluable resource for intermediate and advanced students of German (CEFR levels A2 to B2, ACTFL Novice High to Intermediate High). It is designed to function equally as a free-standing grammar or as a foundation grammar for Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage and is suitable for both classroom use and self-study.

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392

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Routledge

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1317541839

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9781317541837

Against the Mark

By: Kat Martin

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Against the Mark

By: Kat Martin

When Haley Warren hires private investigator Tyler Brodie to prove that her father's death was no accident, he uncovers some unsettling evidence as attraction grows between them.

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MIRA

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0778314677

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9780778314677

Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions

By: Martin Findell

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Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions

By: Martin Findell

The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel. We can advance our understanding of the state of Continental Germanic dialects in the 5th-7th centuries by examining the evidence for the major sound changes in a larger dataset. The study begins with a brief discussion of the Proto-Germanic phonemic system and the major processes by which the systems of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon (OS) develop from it. The main body of the work consists of the analysis of a corpus of 90 inscriptions (including, but not confined to, those conventionally labeled "South Germanic") for evidence of these changes. Rather than making the individual inscription the focus for analysis, the investigation groups together all possible witnesses to a particular phonological process. In many respects, the data are found to be consistent with the anticipated developments of OHG and OS; but we encounter some problems which the existing models of the sound changes cannot account for. There is also some evidence for processes at work in the dialects of the inscriptions which are not attested in OHG or OS.

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560

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110289253

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9783110289251

Visual Prosody

The Graphematic Foot in English and German

By: Martin Evertz

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Visual Prosody

The Graphematic Foot in English and German

By: Martin Evertz

According to well-established views, language has several subsystems where each subsystem (e.g. syntax, morphology, phonology) operates on the basis of hierarchically organised units. When it comes to the graphematic structure of words, however, the received view appears to be that linear structure is all that matters. Contrary to this view, a sub-field of writing systems research emerges that can be called non-linear or supra-segmental graphematics. Drawing on parallels with supra-segmental phonology, supra-segmental graphematics claims the existence and relevance of cross-linguistically available building blocks, such as the syllable and the foot, in alphabetical writing systems, such as the writing systems of German and English. This book explores the graphematic hierarchy with a special focus on the unit foot. Structural, experimental and databased evidence is presented in favour of this approach. In addition, analyses within the optimality theory framework are offered. This work shows that the supra-segmental graphematic approaches are superior to linear ones with respect to explanatory strength and even preciseness of the description. It is thus interesting for academics concerned with writing systems and orthography teaching.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110581191

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9783110581195

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