The stories of this turn-of-the-century writer concern the disillusionment of modern man. To Kafka and to the people in his stories, life is often absurd and meaningless, with only a faint ray of fleeting hope.
This concise supplement to Kafka's The Metamorphosis and other stories helps students understand the overall structure of the works, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
This volume also covers The Judgment, A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony, The Hunter Gracchus, The Burrow, Investigations of a Dog, A Report to an Academy, The Great Wall of China, and Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk.
Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language Winner of the 2004 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Award Competition in the Psychology category
Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book explores communication and cognition in animals and humans from a linguistic point of view and asserts that animals are not capable of acquiring or using human language.
The second Doctor returns to Vortis with his companions Jamie and Victoria. But the Web Planet is not the world he knew, and the peaceful Menoptera are caught up in a bitter interplanetary war between opposing factions of an alien race.
Added by: valerio_leal | Karma: 171.17 | Non-Fiction, Medicine | 8 September 2008
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Taking the potential doctor from the thinking process - is this the right career for me? - through to the application, the interview and to university life and beyond. Written by junior doctors who have been through the recent changes in both medical education and the NHS, it explains what life as a medical student and a doctor is really like. Supplemented with many real life personal experiences, it helps readers to gain an unbiased view of their possible future careers.
The second Doctor returns to Vortis with his companions Jamie and Victoria. But the Web Planet is not the world he knew, and the peaceful Menoptera are caught up in a bitter interplanetary war between opposing factions of an alien race.
