Codes over Rings (Series on Coding Theory and Cryptology)This is the proceedings volume of the International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics Summer School course held in Ankara, Turkey, in August 2008. Contributors include Greferath, Honold, Landgev, Ling, Lopez, Nebe, Nechaev, A-zbudak, Sole, Wolfmann and Wood. The aim is to present a survey in fundamental areas and highlight some recent results.
The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America
The World the Sixties Made", the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago.
Alex McAuliff has received an offer he can't refuse: two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's dark interior. But British Intelligence is aware of the deal and they've let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without a trace.
From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. But who wants him dead? Dunstone? A rival company? Or British Intelligence? Here in an island paradise where even a beautiful woman might be a spy, every move could be his last, and his only clue to survival is a single mysterious word: Halidon.
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Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits. The first part of "Trends in Teenage Talk" gives a description how the corpus was collected and processed. The second part of the book is devoted to the most prominent features of the teenagers' talk: "slanguage"; how reported speech is manifested; a survey of non-standard grammatical features; the use of intensifiers; tags; and interactional behaviour in terms of conflict talk.
This is a comprehensive survey of mystery and detective fiction that covers more than 390 writers and includes overviews on more than three dozen aspects of the genre.Continuing the Salem Press tradition of "Critical Survey" series, "Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Revised Edition" provides detailed analyses of the lives and writings of major contributors to the fascinating literary subgenre of mystery and detective fiction.
