Author: J. R. Partington
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: gunpowder, fire, greek, history
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-10-16
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0801859549
ISBN-13: 9780801859540

For nearly 600 years, from battles of the early 14th century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful extent of war. In this classic work, first published in 1960, distinguished historian James Riddick Partington provides a worldwide survey of the evolution of incendiary devices, Greek fire, and gunpowder. 21 illustrations.

Author: Jonathan R. Partington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linear, mathematical, society, student, texts, london, control, operators, systems, analytical, approach, theory
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-03-15
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0521546192
ISBN-13: 9780521546195

This volume presents an introduction to the common ground between operator theory and linear systems theory. Pure mathematical topics are included such as Hardy spaces, closed operators, the gap metric, semigroups, shift-invariant subspaces, the commutant lifting theorem and almost-periodic functions, which would be suitable for a course in functional analysis. The book also includes applications to partial differential equations, the stability and stabilization of linear systems, power signal spaces, and delay systems, treated from an input/output point of view.

Author: Alan Partington
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: studies, corpus, linguistics, language, approach, modeling, exemplar, based, analogical
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1998-11-15
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 9027223629
ISBN-13: 9789027223623

Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based general theory of description that uses both neighbours and non-neighbours (under certain well-defined conditions of homogeneity) to predict language behaviour. This book provides a basic introduction to AM, compares the theory with nearest-neighbour approaches, and discusses the most recent advances in the theory, including psycholinguistic evidence, applications to specific languages, the problem of categorization, and how AM relates to alternative approaches of language description (such as instance families, neural nets, connectionism, and opti

Author: Alan Partington
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: linguistics, laughter, routledge, studies, assisted, corpus, study
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-08-31
List price: $128.00
ISBN-10: 0415381665
ISBN-13: 9780415381666

The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing ‘laughter-talk’ (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter. In particular, Alan Partington focuses on the tactical use of laughter-talk to achieve specific rhetorical, and strategic, ends: for example, to construct an identity, to make an argumentative point, to threaten someone else’s face or save one’s own. Although laughter and humour are by no means always related, the book al

Authors:Patrick Parrinder, John S. Partington,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: reception, europe, authors, irish, british, wells, amp
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $300.00
ISBN-10: 0826462537
ISBN-13: 9780826462534

The Reception of British Authors in Europe series includes literary and political figures, as well as philosophers, historians and scientists. Each volume provides new research on the ways in which selected authors have been translated, published, distributed, read, reviewed A pioneering scholarly collection of essays outlining the breadth and significance of H. G. Wells’s literary and political impact throughout 20th-century Europe H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a ’seismograph of his age’. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fictio