Authors:Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chas
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: society, volume, politics, ideas, civilization, western
Number of Pages: 451
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $115.95
ISBN-10: 0547147422
ISBN-13: 9780547147420

WESTERN CIVILIZATION, 9th Edition covers the Western intellectual tradition and the significance of its ideas within a political history chronology. Known for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content including its enhanced focus on religion and philosophy. Updated with more recent scholarship, the Ninth Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines and full-color maps with physical geography essays. New technology resources, including an interactive eBook, make learning

Authors:Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chas
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: society, volume, politics, ideas, civilization, western
Number of Pages: 902
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $115.95
ISBN-10: 0547147465
ISBN-13: 9780547147468

WESTERN CIVILIZATION, 9th Edition covers the Western intellectual tradition and the significance of its ideas within a political history chronology. Known for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content including its enhanced focus on religion and philosophy. Updated with more recent scholarship, the Ninth Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines and full-color maps with physical geography essays. New technology resources, including an interactive eBook, make learning

Authors:Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chas
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Keywords: society, politics, ideas, civilization, western
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 2008-10-29
List price: $153.95
ISBN-10: 0547147015
ISBN-13: 9780547147017

Western Civilization, 9/e covers the Western intellectual tradition and the significance of its ideas within a political history chronology. Known for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content including its enhanced focus on religion and philosophy. Updated with more recent scholarship, the Ninth Edition retains many popular features, including comparative timelines and full-color maps with physical geography essays. New technology resources, including an interactive eBook and CL HistorySpace wit

Authors:Jacob Benesty, Jacob Benesty, M. Mohan Sondhi, Yiteng
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: processing, speech, handbook, springer
Number of Pages: 1176
Published: 2007-12-13
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 3540491252
ISBN-13: 9783540491255

From common consumer products such as cell phones and MP3 players to more sophisticated projects such as human-machine interfaces and responsive robots, speech technologies are now everywhere. Many think that it is just a matter of time before more applications of the science of speech become inescapable in our daily life. This handbook is meant to play a fundamental role for sustainable progress in speech research and development. Springer Handbook of Speech Processing targets three categories of readers: graduate students, professors and active researchers in academia and research labs, and

Authors:Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm Gri
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: stories, complete, old, tales, grimms
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1983-09-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0385189508
ISBN-13: 9780385189507

Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and  prize-winning translator, has rediscovered in the original  German editions of the Grimms’ works the  unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they  were first recorded.

Author: Jacob L. Mey
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: introduction, pragmatics
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0631211322
ISBN-13: 9780631211327

This is a succinct introduction to the rapidly developing field of pragmatics - the study of language from the point of view of its users, of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction, and the effects their use of language has on other participants in communication. The book reviews the work of Austin, Grice, Searle, Levinson and others and examines the implicit meaning of everyday conversation, as well as the social importance and determination of our individually performed ’pragmatic acts’. In this updated and thoroughly

Author: Rob Jacob
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: bibliography, annotated, biographies, arts, martial
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 2005-03-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0595348610
ISBN-13: 9780595348619

Martial Arts Biographies: An Annotated Bibliography lists hundreds of martial arts related biographies and autobiographies. Most of the entries are annotated, giving a synopsis of the relevant material in the book. Included are listings for martial artists of Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, Judo, Jiu Jitsu, Tae Kwon Do, Ninjutsu, Tai Chi, and many other styles. Appendices list productive sources for new and used books, and contact information for major publishers of martial arts books. Martial Arts Biographies: An Annotated Bibliography is a useful resource for martial arts researchers, readers, boo