Transactions

Transactions
Author: Edinburgh Geological Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 714
Release: 1905
Genre: Geology
ISBN:

The Biology of Peatlands, 2e

The Biology of Peatlands, 2e
Author: Håkan Rydin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0199602999

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date overview of peatland ecosystems. It examines the entire range of biota present in this habitat and considers management, conservation, and restoration issues.

Staff Studies and Surveys

Staff Studies and Surveys
Author: United States. National Commission for the Review of Federal and State Laws Relating to Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1976
Genre: Eavesdropping
ISBN:

The Oxford Turkish Grammar

The Oxford Turkish Grammar
Author: Gerjan van Schaaik
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192592289

This volume is a comprehensive grammar of the Turkish language, suitable both for students of the Turkish language and linguistic scholars. Gerjan van Schaaik draws on sound linguistic research and an extensive corpus of real-life data, alongside more than twenty years of feedback from university classrooms, to provide the most complete, up-to-date, and practically useful survey of the Turkish language ever compiled. Following an introduction that provides background information on the Turkic languages and an overview of the linguistic terminology adopted in the volume, the first part of the book explores the fundamentals of Turkish spelling and pronunciation. Parts II and III explore the noun phrase and adjuncts and modifiers, respectively, while Parts IV and V examine the verbal system and sentence structure. These first five parts together represent a valuable overview of the fundamentals of Turkish grammar. Part VI provides an account of the ways in which new words are constructed on the basis of existing material, and constitutes a bridge to the more advanced matter treated in parts VII and VIII, including relative clauses, subordination, embedded clauses, clausal complements and the finer points of the verbal system. The work will be accompanied by a companion website that will provide exercises to accompany each part.

Dear Incomprehension

Dear Incomprehension
Author: Stéphane Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2024
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0817361375

"Dear Incomprehension tackles a broad swath of contemporary literature currently labeled "speculative fiction." A blurring of genres that includes science fiction, modern fairy tales, and avant-garde experimental fiction, these works are extremely popular but also derive from highly sophisticated philosophical and aesthetic sensibilities, ones that call into question and uproot the very foundations of stories and storytelling. Because such fictions subvert most conventional narrative devices-plot, recognizable characters, verisimilitude, logic, legibility-they deliberately confound almost any kind of conventional reading and criticism. So, what do you do with a text that cannot be conventionally read or understood? To do such a literature justice, the traditional frameworks of literary criticism fail, and Dear Incomprehension is more of an extended philosophical essay than it is a traditional work of criticism, as oblique and unconventional in its voice, tone, and methods as the texts it illuminates"--