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Thought-provoking and sure to be controversial, Bayesian Field Theory will be of interest to physicists as well as to other specialists in the rapidly growing number of fields that make use of Bayesian methods.

Wortschätze sind auf komplexe Weise strukturiert. Diese Komplexität des Wortschatzaufbaus beruht zum einen auf der großen Zahl der Elemente (Wörter, ihre Verwendungsweisen), zum anderen auf der Tatsache, daß eine Mehrzahl von Strukturierungsprinzipien zusammenwirken. Wortschatzentwicklung kann man auffassen als ein Zusammenspiel zwischen Aspekten der Beharrung und des Wandels komplexer Ordnungen, das zu beschreiben, zu dokumentieren und nach M...

A history of the society and economy of Sao Paulo from its origins to the introduction of coffee in the mid-19th century.

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Scolnicov’s aim is to provide a new translation of Plato’s Parmenides, with a commentary designed to show that the arguments of the second half of the dialogue, the purpose of which has long been a matter of scholarly dispute, make sense as an attempt to establish the necessary logical and epistemological conditions for Plato’s own theory of forms and participation. In particular, Scolnicov attempts to show that the otherwise bewildering conca...

A comprehensive management and marketing guide for individuals currently operating a business from home.

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from va...

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from va...

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from va...

Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite -- east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert" is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. Austin vividly describes the landscape, from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas, and the few human beings who occupy the land -- cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set ...

A dynamic dramatization of a soul's passage through millenia of turburlent incarnations, beginning with an ancient tribe's struggle for survival and ending with a twenty-first century leader who fully expresses soul's love.

A young scholar goes to Grandmother's house--and beyond--to uncover the surprisingly complex and contradictory morals we've learned from this seemingly simple folk tale

The early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age-fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of prayer, contemplation, and radical simplicity. This book is a portable collection of their teachings, and those of their contemplative contemporaries, ranging from the fourth through the eleventh centuries. It is arranged to the traditional model of three ascendin...

From the author of "Snow Falling on Cedars" comes this bestselling novel about a dying man's final journey through a landscape that has always sustained him and provided him with hope and challenges.

In his second novel, Dostoevsky sought to portray "a positively beautiful man, " a saintly paragon in contrast to the murderer Raskolnikov of his first novel. After a stay in a Swiss sanitarium, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin returns to an unrecognizable Russia obsessed with material and carnal pleasures. His own goodness clashes with this world as he becomes entangled in love affairs with two very different women. Through Myshkin's struggle, ...

Here two Western-born lamas of the Nyingma tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism explore what it means to be utterly emotionally alive. Written in contemporary, nonacademic language, this book is a radical challenge to the misconception that inner Vajrayana is primarily an esoteric system of ritual and liturgy. The authors teach that emotions can be embraced as a rich and profound opportunity for realization. This fiercely compassionate battle cry r...

Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circulated in the media and subject to passionate debate, but it has not been the subject of serious discussion. "Just Being Difficult?" provides learned and thoughtful analyses of the claim, of those it targets, and of the entire question of how critical writing relates to its intended publics and to audi...

Gospel Perspectives' is the fruit of the Gospels Research Project of Tyndale House, Cambridge. This six-volume collection, published between the years of 1981 and 1986 presents top evangelical scholarship on Gospels. Contributors include: William Craig, Richard Bauckham, Murray Harris, Peter Davids, Robert Stein, F.F. Bruce, Leon Morris, and D.A. Carson.

Zetka describes the impact of the laparoscope on the work lives of contemporary surgeons, and how it has revolutionized surgery as nothing ever has.

Author Scott Aaron Stine is back again, this time with an exhaustive study of splatter films of the 1980s. (His earlier work on the 1960s and 1970s was "recommended" by Booklist/RBB and called "exhaustive" and "useful" by ARBA.) Following a brief overview of the genre, the main part of the book is a filmography. Each entry includes extensive technical information, cast and production credits, release date, running time, alternate and foreign r...