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The ConciergeThis was what started as a pet project and grown like a monster when, keep thinking about it, Like a Strong wind hit you hard, while you were feeling the breeze. It was a small presentation from my side to the crime/thiriller lovers. Your feedbacks are alwyas a gem to help me improve myself."Wait... Luke planned THAT too?" is the impression you'll get after experiencing this novel.A detective. A missing girl. A criminal empire built on ...

This book presents the elements of everyday Portuguese, stressing European Portuguese, but also giving information on Brazilian Portuguese. Covering grammatical topics, vocabulary, and practice sentence material, this book is a solid, well-organized approach to Portuguese that anyone interested in the language will find highly useful.Pronunciation is very clearly explained first, and it is followed by twenty-five well-proportioned, progressive lessons that cover all the main points ...

Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to what has been called derivational morphology. Second, morphosyntax (corresponding to what is traditionally called "inflectional morphology") is the immediate spellout of the syntactic m...

Unearthed: A History Nerd Abroad in Europe - Dig History. Travel Light. Embrace Chaos.From the author of Lightbulb Moments in Human History comes a hilarious and heartfelt travel memoir that blends historical insight, personal misadventure, and an entirely unreasonable amount of beer.Determined to stop just reading about the past and start living it, a history-obsessed writer and his long-time best mate, CJ, embark on a European adventure decades i...

Why did nine brothers and sisters from a large Irish family take dangerous ocean voyages to the Australian colonies, on the other side of the globe? They came alone or in groups over 23 years and some of them were children as young as 13 or 14. Most never saw their parents or their birth country again.There must be hundreds of descendants of the Irish Carrs living today. How much do we know of our ancestors? Where did they come from and why did they come? What did they do when they...

This volume contains English translations by Epiphanius Wilson of various ancient Sanskrit texts, including “The Book of Good Counsels”, “Nala and Damayanti”, and the “Rámáyana” and “Sakoontalá”. “Hindu Literature” will appeal to those with an interest in the Sanskrit epics of ancient India and would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. Contents include: “The Winning of Friends”, “The Story of the Tiger and the Traveller”, “The Story of the Jackal, Deer, and Crow”, “The Story of th...

CIVILIZATION HAD TO START SOMEWHERE.A Paleolithic girl makes friends with a wolf, and changes everything.A Mesopotamian kid watches his father turn beer into a business empire.An Egyptian apprentice chooses mummies over mathematics.A Maya priest really, really doesn't want to cut anyone's heart out.None of them knew they were building civilization. They were just trying to get through the day.We Invented Civilization? is a ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. DIG HISTORY • TRAVEL LIGHT • EMBRACE CHAOSOne very angry Louvre guard. Two suspiciously charming Eastern Europeans who may or may not be mafia hitmen. And a chain-smoking American dubbed Cruella.A history-obsessed writer and his beer-loving best friend, CJ, finally embark on their long-delayed European adventure. Armed with shaky navigation skills and an unquenchable thirst for craft beer, they stumble from London's plague pits to ...

In May 1985 the University of Massachusetts held the first conference on the parameter setting model of grammar and acquisition. The conference was conceived in the belief that there is a new possibility of tightly connecting grammatical studies and language acquisition studies, and that this new possibility has grown out of the new generation of ideas about the relation of Universal Grammar to the grammar of particular languages. The papers in this volume are all concerned in one way or a...

This book, the first ever overview of the subject, traces the history of the government of higher education from the middle ages through the 1950's and concludes with a look towards the future. It provides insight into the origins and progression of corporate organization associated with western universities, and explores whether and to what extent changing conditions raise the question of its obsolescence. It will be of interest to those who study higher education as well as the general p...

The Achievements of Luther Trant by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg is a compelling early twentieth-century collection of psychological detective stories that showcases one of the most distinctive crime-solving minds in classic fiction. Blending scientific reasoning with narrative suspense, the book follows the innovative methods of Luther Trant, a pioneer in the use of psychological observation to uncover truth. At the center of the work is Luther Trant himself, a consulting investigator...

This book examines the origins, presence, and implications of scientistic thinking in psychology. Scientism embodies the claim that only knowledge attained by means of natural scientific methods counts as valid and valuable. This perspective increasingly dominates thinking and practice in psychology and is seldom acknowledged as anything other than standard scientific practice. This book seeks to make this intellectual movement explicit and to detail the very real limits in both role and r...