Authors:David Bradley, Maya Bradley,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: language, approach, active, maintenance, endangerment
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-08-02
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0700714561
ISBN-13: 9780700714568

Language endangerment is a fundamental issue for humanity. What rights do minority communities have concerning their languages? How does each language conceptualize the world differently? How much knowledge about the world and a local ecosystem is lost when a language disappears? What is the process involved and how can insights about this process contribute to linguistic theory? What typological insights will be lost if undescribed languages disappear before their unique structural properties are known? How can language shift be stopped or reversed?

Authors:Jeff Bradley, Truman Bradley, Walker Bradley,
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Keywords: baby, naming, guide, name
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-07-25
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1558322809
ISBN-13: 9781558322806

What makes this baby name book different from all the rest? Aside from an A-to-Z listing of more than 25,000 entries including origin and meaning, it’s brimming with information, entertaining anecdotes, name lists, advice, strategies, and much more! It also has a 2-color illustrated interior and two helpful ribbon markers, making it a special and heartwarming gift for you or a loved one.

Author: Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: upland, indian, story
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0559954638
ISBN-13: 9780559954634

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Author: Maya Roy
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publisher
Keywords: social, club, timba, cubana, vista, buena, music, son, rumba, cuban
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558762825
ISBN-13: 9781558762824

Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling songs, which joined the more traditional styles of trova and bolero. Cuban culture represents a convergence of these diverse backgrounds, and the musical heritage presented in this book reflects these traditions as well. In colonial times, African ritual sounds mixed with Catholic liturgies and brass bands of the Spanish military

Author: Maya Lin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: boundaries
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-09-12
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0743299590
ISBN-13: 9780743299596

Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial’s walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals

Authors:Bradley P. Carlin, Thomas A. Louis, Bradley Carlin,
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Keywords: bayes, second, analysis, methods, empirical, data
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2000-06-22
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1584881704
ISBN-13: 9781584881704

In recent years, Bayes and empirical Bayes (EB) methods have continued to increase in popularity and impact. Building on the first edition of their popular text, Carlin and Louis introduce these methods, demonstrate their usefulness in challenging applied settings, and show how they can be implemented using modern Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. Their presentation is accessible to those new to Bayes and empirical Bayes methods, while providing in-depth coverage valuable to seasoned practitioners.With its broad appeal as a text for those in biomedical science, education, social science

Author: Autodesk Maya Pre
Publisher: Sybex
Keywords: autodesk, dvd, modeling, handbook, includes, animation, guide, maya, official, training, learning
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2007-09-24
List price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 1897177380
ISBN-13: 9781897177389

Develop out of this world modeling and animation skills with Learning Autodesk Maya 2008 I The Modeling & Animation Handbook. Follow clear, step-by-step tutorials to understand the modeling and animation stages of production using artwork from the LAIKA short film Moongirl. Learn to build models with a variety of surface types and then make them move with a wide range of animation techniques directly from the makers of Autodesk Maya. You’ll learn to make sound decisions from the beginning, to save yourself unnecessary challenges further down the pipeline. You’ll learn how to model