Eight Decades of General Linguistics
Title | Eight Decades of General Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Ferenc Kiefer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2012-11-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004218130 |
'Eight Decades of General Linguistics' offers the lectures of outstanding scholars including Otto Jesperson, Louis Hjelmslec, André Martinet, Uriel Weinreich, Noam Chomsky, and others held during the 18 conferences organized by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists.
On the Use of the Present to Explain the Past
Title | On the Use of the Present to Explain the Past PDF eBook |
Author | William Labov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | |
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A Collection of Papers, Designed to Explain and Vindicate the Present Mode of Subscription Required by the University of Oxford, from All Young Persons at Their Matriculation..
Title | A Collection of Papers, Designed to Explain and Vindicate the Present Mode of Subscription Required by the University of Oxford, from All Young Persons at Their Matriculation.. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1772 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Collection of Papers, Designed to Explain and Vindicate the Present Mode of Subscription Required by the University of Oxford, from All Young Persons at Their Matriculation
Title | A Collection of Papers, Designed to Explain and Vindicate the Present Mode of Subscription Required by the University of Oxford, from All Young Persons at Their Matriculation PDF eBook |
Author | University of Oxford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1772 |
Genre | |
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An Act to Explain and Amend an Act, Made in the Thirteenth Year of His Present Majesty's Reign, Intituled, An Act to Explain, Amend, and Reduce Into One Act of Parliament, the General Laws Now in Being for Regulating the Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain Called England, and for Other Purposes
Title | An Act to Explain and Amend an Act, Made in the Thirteenth Year of His Present Majesty's Reign, Intituled, An Act to Explain, Amend, and Reduce Into One Act of Parliament, the General Laws Now in Being for Regulating the Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain Called England, and for Other Purposes PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2 |
Release | 1774 |
Genre | Highway law |
ISBN |
Principles of geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation
Title | Principles of geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Charles Lyell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 1847 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sudden Death
Title | Sudden Death PDF eBook |
Author | Álvaro Enrigue |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-02-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 069817903X |
"Splendid" —New York Times "Mind-bending." —Wall Street Journal "Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." —Salman Rushdie A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn. The poet and the artist battle it out in Rome before a crowd that includes Galileo, a Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who would throw the world into flames. In England, Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII execute Anne Boleyn, and her crafty executioner transforms her legendary locks into those most-sought-after tennis balls. Across the ocean in Mexico, the last Aztec emperors play their own games, as the conquistador Hernán Cortés and his Mayan translator and lover, La Malinche, scheme and conquer, fight and f**k, not knowing that their domestic comedy will change the course of history. In a remote Mexican colony a bishop reads Thomas More’s Utopia and thinks that it’s a manual instead of a parody. And in today’s New York City, a man searches for answers to impossible questions, for a book that is both an archive and an oracle. Álvaro Enrigue’s mind-bending story features assassinations and executions, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bawdy criminals, carnal liaisons and papal schemes, artistic and religious revolutions, love and war. A blazingly original voice and a postmodern visionary, Enrigue tells the grand adventure of the dawn of the modern era, breaking down traditions and upending expectations, in this bold, powerful gut-punch of a novel. Game, set, match. “Sudden Death is the best kind of puzzle, its elements so esoteric and wildly funny that readers will race through the book, wondering how Álvaro Enrigue will be able to pull a novel out of such an astonishing ball of string. But Enrigue absolutely does; and with brilliance and clarity and emotional warmth all the more powerful for its surreptitiousness.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies "Engrossing... rich with Latin and European history." —The New Yorker "[A] bawdy, often profane, sprawling, ambitious book that is as engaging as it is challenging.” —Vogue