Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. The book that was derived from his teaching, the Course in General Linguistics, had a lasting impact on the intellectual life of the 20th century and remains today an object of debates and controversies.
Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 13 edition (2011)
This book offers a comprehensive and balanced presentation on views of human culture, evolution, and prehistory. The text presents the principles and processes of anthropology, both physical (biological) and cultural, including ethnology, linguistics, and prehistoric archaeology in an integrated, holistic manner. The book's framework emphasizing the challenge of human survival, the connections between biology and culture, and the impact of globalization on peoples and cultures around the world, serves to unify the material.
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The Stranger's Child
In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at ‘Two Acres’, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George’s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever.
Impact of E-Business Technologies on Public and Private Organizations: Industry Comparisons and Perspectives
The development and implementation of new e-business technologies has a significant impact on organizations and their relationships within and outside their boundaries.
Cognitive LinguisticsAn Interdisciplinary Journal of Cognitive Science 2009 Vol.20
Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. Cognitive Linguistics focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information, and the journal is devoted to high-quality research
