Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics.William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language offers a full-length study of America's pion...

Written by rock guitar virtuoso Stephen Delach, here is a straightforward approach to adding diminished and whole-tone colors to your improvisations. Geared toward the rock guitarist who has a firm understanding of pentatonic and blues applications, this book provides an excellent introduction into the world of applying altered tones that will undoubtedly take your playing to a new harmonic level. Many etudes, patterns and licks are demonstrated showing how you can get these tones under yo...

This volume focuses on the various phenomena of religious encounters in a transcultural society where religion or religious traditions play a significant role in a multi-cultural concept. Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society is divided into three parts: Islamic encounters with regional religions, East Asian religious encounters, and alternative religious encounters. This book evokes the fact that religious encounters exist in every transcultural society even though they often rema...

This book mainly discusses about the alter ego perspectives in literary historiography. This comparative analysis of the major Chinese literary histories in China and in the West brings to light the alter ego perspectives of Stephen Owen in literary historiography. The most interesting part of the book will be the interpretation of new notions and perspectives proposed by Stephen Owen, especially in the newly published The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature (2010). This book gives a d...

When two modern-day kids discover a grotesque secret in an abandoned mailbox, they have no idea they are about to be drawn into a mystery that began on the other side of the world. Through the help of an English genie and a phantom postman, the two children begin to communicate with another boy, a young calligrapher's apprentice who lived 125 years ago in an Indian village.Writing back and forth, across continents and centuries, the three children eventually realize the possibility ...

When three sixth-graders break into the town library to read aloud from a book of sorcery, little do they know they are about to raise the dead. The spirits they conjure are trapped within the pages of library books, and must now rely on the children and their determined librarian to set them free.

MOMENTS OF RESPITETomorrow is never promised—a reality Shin, Lena, and their comrades must face every single day. It’s small wonder, then, that these young soldiers occasionally experienced fleeting vignettes of happiness, even while staring death in the face. It didn’t matter if their battlefield was the blood-soaked Eighty-Sixth Sector, the Giadian Federacy, or the frigid peaks of Roa Gracia. They understood the importance of enjoying their youth while they could, no matter where fate fo...

In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...Starship San Magnolia drifts across a sea of stars, protected by a group of guardian spirits with mysterious powers—the Eighty-Six. These fae-like familiars accompany Magical Girl Lena as she races across the sky, but they soon find themselves caught up in a battle for the fate of the galaxy…!Enjoy a revised, extended edition of the exclusive short story released with the anime Blu-ray, as well as never-before-seen artwork from both Shirabii and the illustrator ...