Author: Judith Winsto
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: species, describing
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1999-10-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0231068255
ISBN-13: 9780231068253

New species are discovered every day -and cataloguing all of them has grown into a nearly insurmountable task world-wide. Now, this definitive reference manual acts as a style guide for writing and filing species descriptions. New collecting techniques and new technology have led to a dramatic increase in the number of species that are discovered. Explorations of unstudied regions and new habitats for almost any group of organisms can result in a large number of new species discoveries -and hence the need to be described. Yet there is no one source a student or researcher can readily consult t

Author: Master Hsing Yun
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Keywords: indescribable, describing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0861711866
ISBN-13: 9780861711864

The Diamond Sutra is revered throughout Asia as one of the Buddha’s most profound expressions of the nature of reality. Describing the Indescribable offers a brilliant explanation from a modern Chinese meditation master.

Author: Curtis Alexander
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: dream, describing
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-08-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1411645693
ISBN-13: 9781411645691

A collection of poetry by Curtis John Alexander on topics such as time, marriage, creation, evolution, and Christianity. A thought-provoking look at the world around us.

Author: Svetlana Alpers
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: art, century, seventeenth, dutch, describing
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1984-04-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0226015130
ISBN-13: 9780226015132

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers’s study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters.

Author: David Brazil
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: language, english, describing, speech, grammar
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1995-03-23
List price: $23.75
ISBN-10: 019437193X
ISBN-13: 9780194371933

This book provides an innovative analysis of English grammar in the spoken form. Hitherto, most grammars of English have relied heavily on the written language, and this excludes much normal spoken discourse. This work offers an alternative view of the structure of spoken English based on naturally-occurring language data. A Grammar of Speech has relevance for many areas related to linguistics, such as Artificial Intelligence, computational linguistics, and machine translation. First Prize English Speaking Union’s Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition

Author: Thomas E. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguists, field, guide, morphosyntax, describing
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 1997-10-28
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0521588057
ISBN-13: 9780521588058

This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of the world’s many underdocumented languages. It offers readers who work through it one possible outline for a grammatical description, with many questions designed to help them address the key topics. Appendices offer guidance on text and elicited data, and on sample reference grammars that readers might wish to consult. This will be a valuable resource to anyone engaged in linguistic fieldwork.

Author: Richard Smiraglia
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: amc, format, marc, materials, archival, describing
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1991-01-24
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0866569162
ISBN-13: 9780866569163

Here is an informative new volume that celebrates the increasing use and influence of the MARC format for Archives and Manuscript Control (AMC). As the format and its companion, the online archival catalog, gain acceptance among archivists, several major issues evolve, including the adoption and adaptation of standards for archival control data and the acceptance of archival control techniques for use in library collections. This is an important volume for library cataloguers, who in order to make use of the archival control techniques embodied in the AMC format must be familiar with basic tec