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The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the framework of Role and Reference Grammar as a point of reference, either by applying it to the analysis of linguistic data or by discussing, extending, and challenging some of its assumptions. The topics of the articles range from general questions concerning the relation of meaning and...

In the tradition of other great ex-patriot stories like The Sun Also Rises or All the Pretty Horses, Native Moments is a coming-of-age adventure set among the lush landscape of Costa Rica. After the death of his brother, Sanch Murray leaves for a surf trip to Costa Rica as a way to cope and sets out on a quixotic search for an alternative to the American Dream.Set in 1999 Costa Rica, Sanch and his friend Jake Higdon wander the dirt roads of Ta...

Bringing together findings from a variety of settings, this book calls for the recognition of children as holders of rights and agents in their own development. It points to the experience of children living in poverty and draws attention to their many roles: as learners, as migrants, users of financial services and entrants to the world of work.

Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, this book conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.

Book 4 of Mike Lunnon-Wood's BRITISH MILITARY QUARTET'SNIPER ONE MEETS HEART OF DARKNESS' - Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607When a group of missionaries get caught up in bloody African civil war London is forced to act. For the men of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, it should be a quick in and out. A nice clean operation. But what awaits them will test them like never before. And, facing overwhelming odds, this time the skill and raw courage of...

A hilarious and touching comic about polyamory, queer, and genderqueer issues. If your relationships or your gender are unconventional, you'll find useful advice and plenty of laughs in this compilation of the wildly popular webcomic Kimchi Cuddles. Quirky, endearing and charmingly (and sometimes painfully) realistic characters, many based on real people, explore polyamory, queer and genderqueer issues. Covering practical matters like time man...

Nitra Zupan faces the one crisis all writers' fear most, losing their entire hand written manuscript weeks before a looming deadline. Worse, she is unable to recapture the essences of her first page, the one she considers to be the most significant page of the entire book. After losing her manuscript to Mother Nature's wrath, she places an ad in the local newspaper offering a reward to have her pages returned to her. Follow their tense adventu...

Without doubt, we are living in times of perplexity. Trouble abounds on every hand. Many are functioning on short fuses, ready to explode in anger at any moment. Modern day pressures have forced many into a state of loneliness and depression. Marriages have fallen on hard times and financial pressures abound in the average family. We have created a monster that is ready to devour us. Is there a solution to our dilemmas? Let me hasten to say th...

Cari lettori, vi presento il mio libro, il mio primo libro... e lo dedico alla mia famiglia , che mi hanno sempre sostenuta, e dato la forza di vivere! Lo dedico a chi insegue un sogno nella vita, ai tenaci, ai testardi, agli ostinati, a chi cade e si rialza...a chi ci riprova, perché la vera forza è sorridere anche quando la vita non te lo permette. Sono lieta di poter condividere le mie emozioni, le mie sensazioni, le mie gioie e i miei dolo...

Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go.From Eliza Fay's description of arriving i...

An ambitious future surgeon on his psychiatry rotation is assigned a patient who reveals to him information about an organized plot to control the population. His pursuit of the truth leads him to become a psychiatric patient in the same facility. Dan Greenberg was a promising medical student who was derailed by Catherine--a bizarre schizophrenic patient whose delusions about patients in danger at hospitals all around Chicago were startlingly ...

La Calle brings together more than thirty years of photography from the streets of Mexico by Alex Webb, spanning 1975 to 2007. Whether in black and white or color, Webb's richly layered and complex compositions touch on multiple genres. As Geoff Dyer writes, Wherever he goes, Webb always ends up in a Bermuda-shaped triangle where the distinctions between photojournalism, documentary, and art blur and disappear. Webb's ability to distill gestur...

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2nd in a series of 6 novellas! Follow Giovanni's adventures as he uncovers the hidden secrets where the worlds of the supernatural and medical science collide! Having successfully dealt with his 1st zombie, Giovanni is looking forward to the upcoming semester. Then the accidents start, costing Giovanni two jobs, no end of embarrassment, and multiple contusions and abrasions! Is it just bad luck or is the curse of the zombie out to get him? And...

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