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The Italian Renaissance produced a new type of stage comedy, experimental and even revolutionary in its time, by copying and updating the dramatic formats of Plautus and Terence from ancient Rome. These scripted comedies, first written and performed for private audiences, ranged in tone from sober moralism to scurrilous farce, and influenced European dramatists from Shakespeare to Molière and Lope de Vega. This book gives an account of how the...

A remarkable case study based on a detailed comparison of non-human primates and human infants brings together key abilities that provide the foundation for language. This link makes the case for phylogenetic continuity across species and ontogenetic continuity from infancy to childhood. Examined here are the fundamental aspects of language acquisition, such as vocalizations, mapping of meaning on to sound, use of gestures to communicate and t...

The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. The view that direct knowledge is impossible in the religious domain, only 'faith' possible, is rejected. It is argued that the ways in which people come to know other things, in particular how people arrive at personal insights, is close at many points to how they arrive at religious insights. The psychological processes involved in re...

Fascinating, accessible survey of the acoustic world from physics and music to zoology and film.

Celebrating the 400th anniversary of John Marston’, s debut as a professional playwright, this collection of critical essays on his work by leading scholars in the early modern field discovers, in the de-centred, hilarious, but unsettling work of this idiosyncratic Renaissance dramatist, an uncannily post-modern voice. Always at odds with his contemporaries, the censor and sometimes his own audience, Marston is shown to be a deeply confli...

In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of ‘, national character’, prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists’, concern with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individual ...

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering features new standards, developments and applications. It addresses not only recent developments in UWB communication systems, but also related IEEE standards such as IEEE 802.15 wireless personal area network (WPAN). Examples and problems are included in each chapter to aid understanding. Enhanced with new chapters and several...

Bonding While Learning gives busy parents the easy-to-use activities and materials they need to help their young children learn to read and write while having fun and feeling loved. Many Bonding While Learning activities can be used at home and on the run -- in the car, at the park, while out to eat, and even at the doctor's office!

The definitive assessment of how wireless communications will evolve over the next 20 years. Predicting the future is an essential element for almost everyone involved in the wireless industry. Manufacturers predict the future when they decide on product lines to develop or research to undertake, operators when they buy licences and deploy networks, and academics when they set PhD topics. Wireless Communications: The Future provides a solid,...

In a time of crisis we start grasping for straws on what to do. Some seek wise counsel while others go gung ho to take on a role of a hero and attempt to handle the situation themselves. Caught in a losing fight for survival, these brave soldiers who were giving their all for what they believed in found a fate of one that might have belonged to a third world country with morals that could be counted on one finger. To stand up for what was righ...

Pocket Whispers is a collection of poems/spoken word across different topics. Some of which are inspirational, humorous, special requests for holidays and love. The words written with passion to inspire, humor and entertain your spirit and soul.

This book traces the history of the Fitzhugh Family of Bedfordshire, England from the first Hugh and his wife Joyce, who were living in 1223 and from whom the family name derives, down to William Fitzhugh the Immigrant (1651-1701) who founded the Fitzhugh Family of Virginia. For the first four centuries it draws upon the work of the late Terrick V. H. FitzHugh, a noted genealogist. The latter pages of the book continue from William's son John ...

This book traces the history of the Fitzhugh Family of Bedfordshire, England from the first Hugh and his wife Joyce, who were living in 1223 and from whom the family name derives, down to William Fitzhugh the Immigrant (1651-1701) who founded the Fitzhugh Family of Virginia. For the first four centuries it draws upon the work of the late Terrick V. H. FitzHugh, a noted genealogist. The latter pages of the book continue from William's son John ...

After a loved one dies, I feel we all ask the same questions, "Will we ever see them again?" This is a true story of the journey that I was part of after my father, Thomas Strong Sr., was diagnosed with cancer on January 19, 1989. For the following nine months, I watched this kind, loving, and wonderful husband, father, grandfather, and friend go through months of agonizing pain, and then his passing. But through all of this, he remained a rem...

the book on rated chat up lines is exactly what the title says, they're pick up lines rated by women so at least we know which are effective.

Four Seasons in one day, is the culmination of months of personal thoughts, insights from a man whose life has changed drastically in the last few years. The poems range from events in everyday life. The love, passion, hate, good and bad that constantly surrounds all of us in todays' changeable world. The book descibes flowering romance, love despair, the anguish of war, the beauty of the seasons and countryside we live and breathe. It also al...

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Killeen Grantham thought she had it all: a successful career, family, friends, and love. There is one thing that she does have but did not ask for, Bitterness. All that changes when she meets sexy, polished, free-spirited Promotions Manager, Naja' Spencer. When her bitter heart arrives on the scene Killeen must decide whether to let her guards down and accept her desires to find true love or remain bitter. "Don't let the past interrupt your fu...

Manic Verse. A compilation of verse, prose and songs by David Hamilton. While much of the poetry contained within these pages takes a light hearted poke at "the establishment" such as in 'Tradition Lost', 'Green Condoms' and 'My Car Runs on Corn Oil', to name but three, readers should not make the mistake of thinking this is a frivolous book. The author also has a dark side and takes a perceptive look at the world and its workings with a somet...

Love like you have never been hurt. This collection of short stories reveals that behind the shining eyes and beautiful smiles, shadows haunt the memories and cobwebs suffocate your heart. Sometimes, all it takes is an ordinary hero to release the secrets that burn asunder your soul, even when it pressures the love you share. .just remember that you have been.