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Anne Tyler

A Bio-Bibliography

By: Robert W. Croft

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Anne Tyler is one of America's most significant contemporary writers. This book is a solid introduction to her life and work. It includes the first biography of Tyler, along with a record of her writings and the response to her work. It incorporates source materials from the Anne Tyler Papers at Duke University and letters from Tyler to the author. The volume lists all of Tyler's novels, short stories, articles, and book reviews and provides an annotated bibliography of critical studies. The first half of the book is a biography of Tyler. The author describes her childhood in a North Carolina commune, her high school years in Raleigh, her college years at Duke, and her earliest writing efforts. The biography charts the development of her life and career through her marriage, motherhood, early novels and stories, her life in Baltimore and career as a book reviewer, her rise to fame, and the themes of her major works. The bibliography that follows lists her novels, short stories, nonfiction articles and essays, poetry, children's books, book reviews, and the manuscripts in her papers at Duke University, along with an annotated secondary bibliography.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313369941

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9780313369940

Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric

By: Robert L. Kindrick

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Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric

By: Robert L. Kindrick

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This volume extends the canon of works to be read and studied by providing a new framework for understanding that will inspire students and scholars to look anew at Robert Henryson's poetry. The reader will find it rewarding to read the mainline exposition but will also find a second reward in the knowledge accumulated to support that exposition.

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226

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Routledge

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131794688X

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9781317946885

Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

By: Utkan Demirci,Robert Langer

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Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

By: Utkan Demirci,Robert Langer

The field of microfluidics has in the last decade permeated many disciplines, from physics to biology and chemistry, and from bioengineering to medical research. One of the most important applications of lab-on-a-chip devices in medicine and related disciplines is disease diagnostics, which involves steps from biological sample/analyte loading to storage, detection, and analysis. The chapters collected in this book detail recent advances in these processes using microfluidic devices and systems. The reviews of portable devices for diagnostic purposes are likely to evoke interest and raise new research questions in interdisciplinary fields (e.g., efficient MEMS/microfluidic engineering driven by biological and medical applications).The variety of the selected topics (general relevance of microfluidics in medical and bioengineering research, fabrication, advances in on-chip sample detection and analysis, and specific disease models) ensures that each of them can be viewed in the larger context of microfluidic-mediated diagnostics.

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495

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World Scientific

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9814405523

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9789814405522

The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition

By: Robert J. Glushko

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The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition

By: Robert J. Glushko

We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental issue in many professional fields, but these fields have only limited agreement in how they approach problems of organizing and in what they seek as their solutions. The Discipline of Organizing synthesizes insights from library science, information science, computer science, cognitive science, systems analysis, business, and other disciplines to create an Organizing System for understanding organizing. This framework is robust and forward-looking, enabling effective sharing of insights and design patterns between disciplines that weren't possible before. The 4th edition of this award-winning and widely adopted text adds content to bridge between the foundations of organizing systems and the new statistical and computational techniques of data science because at its core, data science is about how resources are described and organized. The 4th edition reframes descriptive statistics as organizing techniques, expands the treatment of classification to include computational methods, and incorporates many new examples of data-driven resource selection, organization, maintenance, and personalization. The Professional edition remains the definitive source for advanced students and practitioners who require comprehensive and pinpoint connections to the classic and contemporary literature about organizing. Dozens of new citations and endnotes for the new data science material bring to 12 the number of distinct disciplinary perspectives identified in the book.

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1491997265

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9781491997260

Naval Ship Models of World War II in 1/1250 and 1/1200 Scales

Enhancements, Conversions & Scratch Building

By: Robert K. Liu

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Naval Ship Models of World War II in 1/1250 and 1/1200 Scales

Enhancements, Conversions & Scratch Building

By: Robert K. Liu

A guide for collectors and modelers—packed with photos, technical information, practical advice, and history. The origins of 1/1250 and 1/1200 scale models can be traced back to the first years of the twentieth century and their use as identification aids by the military during the First World War. When peace came, the manufacturers aimed their increasingly sophisticated products at collectors, and ever since then acquiring, enhancing, modifying, or scratch-building miniature ship models has been an avidly pursued hobby around the world. This new book focuses on models of the ships of the Second World War, and the author addresses all the practical issues that might confront collectors who like to enhance, convert, and modify their models, or even scratch-build models of ships not commercially available. The book covers both Allied and Axis warships, naval airplanes, merchant conversions, and even an Italian armed schooner, and provides historic and technical information on the ships represented as well as practical advice on modeling them—including twenty-five chapters covering everything from initial production techniques such as spin casting, silicon mold casting, resin casting, die-casting, plastic mold injection, and 3D printing through techniques for enhancing and modifying models to eventually researching and scratch-building an uncommon ship or type. The focus is always on particular vessels and the vast array covered builds into a fascinating panorama of the vessels that fought across the world’s oceans in that era. The combination of intriguing background and historical information, combined with detailed practical information and more than 300 stunning photographs, makes this book irresistible to collectors, modelers, or anyone with an interest in the navies of the Second World War.

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Seaforth Publishing

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152679392X

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9781526793928

Syntactic Analysis

By: Robert Levine

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Syntactic Analysis

By: Robert Levine

An advanced-level introductory textbook taking a critical, practical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107018889

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9781107018884

Evolutionary Linguistics

By: April McMahon,Robert McMahon

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Evolutionary Linguistics

By: April McMahon,Robert McMahon

How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary debates.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521814502

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9780521814508

Mood and Modality

By: Frank Robert Palmer

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Mood and Modality

By: Frank Robert Palmer

Palmer investigates the category of modality, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521804795

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9780521804790

Syntax

Structure, Meaning, and Function

By: Robert D. Van Valin (Jr.),Randy J. LaPolla

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Syntax

Structure, Meaning, and Function

By: Robert D. Van Valin (Jr.),Randy J. LaPolla

An introduction to syntactic theory and analysis.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521499151

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9780521499156

Syntactic Analysis

An HPSG-based Approach

By: Robert D. Levine

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Syntactic Analysis

An HPSG-based Approach

By: Robert D. Levine

In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic data involve a certain specific kind of reasoning, where various alternatives are entertained and modified in light of progressively broader empirical coverage. Rather than focus on transmitting the details of complex theoretical superstructures, this textbook takes a practical, analytical approach, starting from a small set of powerful analytic tools, applied first to simple phenomena and then to the passive, complement and raising/control constructions. The analytic tools are then applied to unbounded dependencies, via detailed argumentation. What emerges is that syntactic structure, and intricate networks of dependencies linking different parts of those structures, are straightforward projections of lexical valence, in tandem with very general rules regulating the sharing of feature values. Featuring integrated exercises and problems throughout each chapter, this book equips students with the analytical tools for recognizing and assessing linguistic patterns.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108107508

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9781108107501

Grammatical Roles and Relations

By: Frank Robert Palmer

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Grammatical Roles and Relations

By: Frank Robert Palmer

Frank Palmer's new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent, Patient, Beneficiary, and grammatical relations, such as Subject, Direct Object and Indirect Object, which are familiar concepts in traditional grammars. It describes the devices, such as the Passive, that alter or switch the identities between such roles and relations. A great wealth of examples is used to show that the grammatical systems of the familiar European languages are far from typical of many of the world's languages, for which we need to use such terms as 'Ergative' and 'Antipassive'. Professor Palmer provides an elegant and consistent framework within which grammatical roles and relations may be discussed, combining a great clarity of discussion with evidence from an enormous number of the world's languages.

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0521458366

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Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

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Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

A Complete Illustrated Record

By: Robert P. Broadwater

In November 1861, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Townsend, adjutant general of the Army, sought to establish an award to motivate and inspire Northern soldiers in the aftermath of the early, morale-devastating defeats of the Civil War. The outcome of Townsend's brainstorm was the Medal of Honor. This reference book offers information about all recipients of the Civil War Medal of Honor, with details of their acts of heroism. The work then organizes recipients by a variety of criteria including branch of service; regiment or naval ship assignment; place of action; act of heroism; state or country of nativity; age of recipient; and date of issuance. Also included is information about the first winners of the medal, the first recipients of multiple medals, posthumously awarded medals and civilian recipients.

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McFarland

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0786491744

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9780786491742

The Challenge to the Crown

Volume I: The Struggle for Influence in the Reign of Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1567

By: Robert Stedall

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The Challenge to the Crown

Volume I: The Struggle for Influence in the Reign of Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1567

By: Robert Stedall

Mary Queen of Scots: Catholic martyr or manipulative femme fatale On 10 February 1567, conspirators bent on killing Henry, Lord Darnley, King-Consort of Mary Queen of Scots successfully razed his Edinburgh residence at Kirk o' Field in a huge explosion. Soon afterwards, Darnley's partially-clothed body was discovered in a nearby orchard, strangled to death by an unknown assailant. Rumours of Mary's involvement in his murder quickly surfaced. Placards across Edinburgh implied that she had provoked the Earl of Bothwell into killing her husband in a crime of passion. This became more plausible when she tried to avoid having to prosecute him for the murder, and subsequently married him, encouraged by her most senior Protestant nobles. While Mary's motives for the marriage might be explained by her need for his protection, those of the Nobility who had encourage it are confusing. Why would they want a union, which would inevitably place Bothwell, a man they hated, as head of government? Was their motif to associate her in the murder plot? Mary's involvement in Darnley's murder has remained one of the great historical mysteries. Genealogist and author Robert Stedall has spent ten years researching the inter-marriages within Scottish peerage to provide an explanation for their motives in removing Mary from the throne. In this first volume, of his two volume history of Mary and James, he explains in vivid detail the switching allegiances of the nobility, and can reveal for the first time, the gripping true story of Mary's downfall and imprisonment.

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1846246466

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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler

Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric

Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric

Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

Microfluidic Technologies for Human Health

The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition

The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition

Naval Ship Models of World War II in 1/1250 and 1/1200 Scales

Naval Ship Models of World War II in 1/1250 and 1/1200 Scales

Syntactic Analysis

Syntactic Analysis

Evolutionary Linguistics

Evolutionary Linguistics

Mood and Modality

Mood and Modality

Syntax

Syntax

Syntactic Analysis

Syntactic Analysis

Grammatical Roles and Relations

Grammatical Roles and Relations

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients

The Challenge to the Crown

The Challenge to the Crown

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