Ottoman Literature
Title | Ottoman Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Elias John Wilkinson Gibb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Turkish poetry |
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An anthology of notable poetry and poets in the history of Turkey. Some discussion of the general character, the verse-form, the meters, and the development of Ottoman poetry is included in the beginning of the collection.
Buyology
Title | Buyology PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Lindstrom |
Publisher | Currency |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2010-02-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0385523890 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.
Introductory Grammar of Amharic
Title | Introductory Grammar of Amharic PDF eBook |
Author | Wolf Leslau |
Publisher | Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9783447042710 |
This book closes the gap for beginners who want to study the Amharic language and had difficulties in finding the right grammar for this purpose: The first grammar of Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, was published by Hiob Ludolf in 1698. The Amharic grammar published by Praetorius in 1879 is based on Amharic religious texts and on scattered material, usually composed by missionaries. A milestone in the study of Amharic is Marcel Cohen's Traite de langue amharique (1936), but this grammar, too is not completely suited for beginners since the author's generalizations are at times aimed at linguists. The grammar that comes closest to the concept of a beginner's grammar is that of C.H. Dawkin (1960), yet this grammar is extremely short, does not give examples and does not introduce the student to the intricacies of the language.The new book gives all the grammatical forms and the sentences of the present grammar in Amharic script and in phonetic transcription. The illustrative examples have a free and a literal translation. This procedure should likewise prove to be useful for the Semitist as well as for the general linguist.
Noise Music
Title | Noise Music PDF eBook |
Author | David Cycleback |
Publisher | Hamerweit Books |
Pages | 822 |
Release | 2016-02-23 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780692567678 |
"Will computers ever think like humans?" "Not if they're well designed." Mixing academic essay, anti-art philosophy, unsettling memoir and wry wit, Noise Music is a profoundly complex and open-ended collage covering a plethora of topics including psychology of information processing, consciousness, science, time, perception, art theory and criticism, morals, mental illness, the human condition, artificial intelligence, cognitive biases, language and communication. However, at its core the book is about the limits of human knowledge and understanding due to how minds and senses work. Going hand in hand with the philosophy, the aleatory narrative and miscellaneous scope expects readers to critique and expand beyond their conventional aesthetic modes of thinking and, in the end, makes the book itself "unsolvable."
Record of the Rust Family
Title | Record of the Rust Family PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Dexter Rust |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Rust family |
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Henry Rust (d.ca. 1684/1685) emigrated from Hingham, Norfolk County, England to Hingham, Massachusetts in about 1634/1635, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1645. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Includes some history of the Rust family in England and Germany to 1312, as well as other Rust individuals who immigrated to Pennsylvania from Germany and to Virginia and elsewhere in the south from England.
The History of the Second Dragoons
Title | The History of the Second Dragoons PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Almack |
Publisher | London : [s.n.] |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1908 |
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Genealogical History of the Quinby (Quimby) Family in England and America
Title | Genealogical History of the Quinby (Quimby) Family in England and America PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Cole Quinby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 908 |
Release | 1915 |
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