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King Rat
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King RatKing Rat

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path.
 
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Tags: human, total, willingness, weaknesses, understanding
Understanding Phonetics
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Understanding PhoneticsUnderstanding Phonetics

Assuming little or no background knowledge and using original examples and exercises (with answers supplied), Understanding Phonetics provides with an accessible introduction to the basics of phonetics and a comprehensive analysis of traditional phonetic theory--the articulation and physical characteristics of speech sounds.
Examples from a wide range of languages are presented throughout using symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. To help develop skills in this alphabet, Understanding Phonetics includes ear-training exercises that are freely available online, along with audio files of authentic listening material, at hodderplus[dot]com/linguistics.
 
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Tags: Understanding, Phonetics, using, exercises, develop, Alphabet
Cloud of Sparrows
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Cloud of SparrowsCloud of Sparrows

Once in a great while a new novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, with flawless storytelling and a unique understanding of another place and time. Takashi Matsuoka is just such a writer.


 
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Tags: place, another, understanding, Takashi, Matsuoka, Sparrows, Cloud, unique
Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Three-Volume Set
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Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Three-Volume SetHandbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Three-Volume Set

A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders).
 
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Tags: disorders, schizophrenia, spectrum, understanding, treatment, disorder, Handbook, Three-Volume
Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing
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Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and WritingDiscourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing

Wallace Chafe demonstrates how the study of language and consciousness together can provide an unexpectedly broad understanding of the way the mind works. Relying on close analyses of conversational speech as well as written fiction and nonfiction, he investigates both the flow of ideas through consciousness and the displacement of consciousness by way of memory and imagination. Chafe draws on several decades of research to demonstrate that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present and the free indirect style.
 
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Tags: consciousness, understanding, Chafe, tense, structure, Speaking, Discourse