Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.35 | Fiction literature | 25 February 2010
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Commonwealth Saga 1 - Pandora's Star
When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time for the Commonwealth to discover what happened to them. Does it indicate some kind of galactic conflict?
Doctor Daniel Jackson wakes up on the floor of his SGC lab, with no memory of what happened or how he got there. The original SG-1 team in an all new audio adventure.
The notion of focus structure underlying the present work is essentially that of Lambrecht (1994), who distinguishes what he calls the predicate focus, argument focus and sentence focus types of focus structure. He illustrates this distinction by the A-utterances in (1), where the word in small capitals is the carrier of the primary sentence accent (see Lambrecht 1994:223): (1) a. predicate focus structure Q:What happened to your car? A: My car/It broke down. b. argument focus structure Q: I heard your motorcycle broke down? A: My car broke down. c. sentence focus structure Q:What happened? A: My car broke down.
Life on Mars, a strange dream, and attacks by murderous birds -these are just some of the subjects of these enjoyable short stories. They will amuse and shock you.
Yegor Gaidar, a hero of Russian reform, has provided a courageous and clear-headed wakeup call for his own people and the world. He argues persuasively that today s Kremlin leaders are heading down the same economic path that led their Communist predecessors to disaster. Combining personal experience, deep analysis and a rare grasp of facts--including from previously classified documents--Gaidar has produced a book of insight and importance. It is must-reading for anyone trying to comprehend what really happened to the Soviet Union, why its system was inherently instable, and why nostalgia for the days of empire fashionable at the highest levels in Russia today--is wrongheaded and dangerous.
