This book is written to meet the needs of undergraduates in applied mathematics, physics and engineering studying partial differential equations. It is a more modern, comprehensive treatment intended for students who need more than the purely numerical solutions provided by programs like the MATLAB PDE Toolbox, and those obtained by the method of separation of variables, which is usually the only theoretical approach found in the majority of elementary textbooks. This will fill a need in the market for a more modern text for future working engineers, and one that students can read and understand much more easily than those currently on the market.

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Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. He compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence. This is an ideal introduction to the field for graduate students and will be a useful reference for theoretical syntacticians of all persuasions.

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Special Section: Rural Cultural Studies
David Carter, Kate Darian-Smith and Andrew Gorman-Murray Introduction
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Phil McManus and John Connell Country Week: Bringing the City to the Country?
Deb Anderson Drought, Endurance and ‘The Way Things Were’: The Lived Experience of Climate and Climate Change in the Mallee
Kate Bowles Rural Cultural Research: Notes from a Small Country Town
Special Section: Marketing Asian-Australianness
Olivia Khoo Introduction
Tom Cho ‘No One Puts Baby in a Corner’: Inserting My Self into the Text
Simone Lazaroo Not Just Another Migrant Story
Merlinda Bobis ‘Voice-Niche-Brand’: Marketing Asian-Australianness
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The Ecological Humanities
Deborah Rose Introduction
Jessica Weir Connectivity    
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Mary Graham Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews

Introduction by the author:
The purpose of this book, as its subtitle says, is to introduce readers to late mediaeval logic and semantic theory. By “late mediaeval,” I do not mean the really late period, at the end of the fifteenth century, say. Rather I mean the fourteenth century, primarily, and only the first half of it at that. (That is “late” in comparison with Boethius, certainly, and even in comparison with Peter of Spain and William of Sherwood a century earlier.) This is the period on which I have concentrated the bulk of my research, so naturally it’s the period I’m best in a position
to talk about. Nevertheless, to give the reader a running start, I have included a kind of overview in Ch. 2, below, of the history of logic up to the end of the Middle Ages, including the periods before and after the time we will be mainly focusing on.

This is a compact introduction to the study of meaning in the English language and how language is used, providing a solid foundation for further semantic studies.