Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 15 November 2010
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The White Knight
First published in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc ("The White Tyrant") is a sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure. With great precision and verve, Martorell narrates land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political maneuverings, and romantic conquests. Reviewing the first modern Spanish translation in 1969 (Franco had ruthlessly suppressed the Catalan language and literature), Mario Vargas Llosa hailed the epic's author as "the first of that lineage of God-supplanters--Fielding, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner--who try to create in their novels an all-encompassing reality."
On Grammar (Collected Works of Mak Halliday Series)
On Grammar (Volume 1) This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new piece entitled 'a personal perspective' , in which Professor Halliday offers his own views on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents early papers (1957-1966); the second part highlights how over the span of two decades (mid-60s to mid-80s) Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text; the third part includes more recent work..
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 12 November 2010
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The Elusive Flame
A sweeping tale of passion, romance and adventure, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss' groundbreaking classicThe Flame and the Flower remains as beloved today as when it first appeared in print. Now, at long last, the story that has enchanted the world for decades continues.
The purpose of this text is to make familiar with the basics of topology, to give a concise introduction to homotopy, and to make students familiar with homology. Readers are expected to have successfully completed their first year courses in analysis and linear algebra.
