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This book explores Arabic derivational morphology, focusing on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic forms from a lexical semantic perspective. It explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words containing the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction.

Building upon theoretical innovations and extensive empirical findings, this book explains variation in the syntactic behavior of ergative arguments across languages. It offers a new analysis of ergativity by recognizing two distinct types, PP-ergative- and DP-ergative-languages. Each type is characterized by a set of correlated features which result in structural consistency.

This book is a study of faction, lynching, murder, terror and counter-terror during the French Revolution. It examines factionalism in small towns like Aubagne near Marseille, and how this produced the murders and prison massacres of 1795-8. Another major theme is the convergence of lynching from below with official terror from above.

This fascinating account of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America's first major group of illegal immigrants. New Chinese language evidence reveals how ethnic leaders' role as transnational actors and intermediaries both transformed Canadian politics and changed understandings of immigrant communities in a turbulent 20th century.

The emergence of photography and film in the twentieth century helped to establish a dominant culture of images. This extended treatment of the poetic representation of visual art uses a wealth of source material to examine the complex, changing relationship between words and images.

Introductory textbook covering the full spectrum of the field in the new age of technology. Norman examines how we interact with computer interfaces and how technology, artificial intelligence, and the Internet affect our personalities, our emotions, our social lives, our education, and our mental well-being.

Developing a virtue ethics inspired by moral sentimentalism, this book argues that a reconfigured and expanded 'morality of caring' can offer a general account of right and wrong action and also of social justice. It also shows how a motive-based 'pure' virtue theory can also help understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.

Research on the women who never married in early modern England. The Author looks at how single women's lives differed from those of wives and widows, at the social relationships of women without husbands. She examines the economic and civic contributions single women made to urban life and the English origins of the old maid stereotype.

This book is a collection representing some of the most powerful and useful computer techniques in the service of art.