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The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 149.00This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world?s languages. The highly multifaceted nature of ?eat? and ?drink? events gives rise to interesting clausal properties of these predicates, such as the atypicality of transitive constructions involving ?eat? and ?drink? in some languages. The two verbs... more...
The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 203.00This volume explores properties of ?sit?, ?stand?, and ?lie? verbs, reflecting three of the most salient postures associated with humans. An introductory chapter by the Editor provides an overview of directions for research into posture verbs. These directions are then explored in detail in a number of languages: Dutch; Korean; Japanese; Lao; Chantyal,... more...
The Linguistics of Giving
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 195.00In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of ?give? verbs. The volume offers an in-depth look at many morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of ?give? verbs, including both literal and figurative senses, across languages. Topics include: an apparent zero-morpheme realisation of ?give? in a Papuan... more...
Scuba Diving and Snorkeling For Dummies
Wiley 2011; US$ 19.99For millions of Americans, diving offers the chance to get away from everyday life and enter a world of stunning natural beauty and fascinating complexity. And getting started is a breeze! Anyone can learn to dive safely and explore the world’s wondrous oceans – all it takes is a little training and basic equipment. Scuba Diving... more...
Advanced Concrete Technology
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 133.95BBased on the Institute of Concrete Technology's advanced course, the Advanced Concrete Technology series is a comprehensive educational and reference resource for the concrete materials technologist. An expert international team of authors from research, academia, and industry have come together to produce this unique reference source. This first... more...
Advanced Concrete Technology
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 133.95Based on the Institute of Concrete Technology's Advanced Concrete Technology Course, these four volumes are a comprehensive educational and reference resource for the concrete materials technologist. An expert international team of authors from research, academia and industry has been brought together to produce this unique series. Each volume deals... more...
Advanced Concrete Technology
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 133.95Based on the Institute of Concrete Technology's Advanced Concrete Technology Course, these four volumes are a comprehensive educational and reference resource for the concrete materials technologist. An expert international team of authors from research, academia and industry has been brought together to produce this unique series. Each volume deals... more...
Advanced Concrete Technology
Elsevier Science 2003; US$ 133.95Based on the Institute of Concrete Technology's Advanced Concrete Technology Course, these four volumes are a comprehensive educational and reference resource for the concrete materials technologist. An expert international team of authors from research, academia and industry has been brought together to produce this unique series. Each volume deals... more...
Minority Report
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 21.00Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and Brian Newman use different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they... more...









