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Language and Cinema
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Language and CinemaThe study of the cinema thus involves two great tasks : the analysis of the cinematic language system and the analysis of filmic writing. This book, as its title indicates, dealt essentially with the first of these.
 
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Paralanguage: A Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Approach to Interactive Speech and Sounds
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Paralanguage: A Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Approach to Interactive Speech and Sounds

There would be no doubt in the reader's mind that a comprehensive book on paralanguage has been long overdue. Different areas in nonverbal communication studies have been proliferating in the last thirty years, offering a great number of research and pedagogical avenues, man y practical applications in very diverse aspects of life, and a general awareness of how people and their environment communicate beyond words. But it seems that paralanguage has proven too great a challenge to be dealt with because of the difficulties involved and its inherent elusiveness.
 
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Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
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Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650

In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but also on a supranational scale.
 
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Phantom Prey
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Phantom PreyPhantom Prey

John Sandford - Phantom Prey

The college-aged daughter of a wealthy widow has vanished from her home leaving nothing but a blood spatter behind. Detective Lucas Davenport has dealt with disturbing cases before, but none quite so macabre as this.

 
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The State of U.S. History
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The State of U.S. HistoryThe State of U.S. History

This book brings together a distinguished international group of scholars in an effort to answer this key question through a sustained interrogation of the periods, themes, fields, problems and perspectives in historical writing on the United States. How have the intricate issues surrounding gender, race, slavery and civil rights been resolved and interpreted in recent American history? How have historians dealt with the complexities of events such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the New Deal in developing their historical narratives? In what ways have technological developments in industry, print and film influenced the questions historians ask?
 
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