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Sacred men : law, torture, and retribution in Guam
Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Gior…
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- edision 12
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- 9781478005667
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- vii. :312 p.
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- 341.690268. SAC k
Logics Of War; Explanations For Limited And Unlimited Conflicts
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation’s decision to go to wa…
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- -
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- 9780801468179
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- Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
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Complexity in second language study emotions
This book offers a socially situated view of the emergence of emotionality for additional language (L2) learners in classroom interaction in Japan. Grounded in a complexity perspective, the author argues that emotions need to be studied as they are dynamically experienced and understood in all of their multidimensional colors by individuals (in interaction). Via practitioner research, Sampso…
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- first
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- 9781003306955
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- vii, 133 p.: ill
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- -
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A grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew tale
This volume constitutes the first reference grammar of the Hasidic Hebrew hagiographic tales composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. It presents a thorough survey of Hasidic Hebrew orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexis illustrated with extensive examples.
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- -
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- 9789004281622
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- x, 450 p.
- Series Title
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics
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- 492.47 KAH g
Teachers' beliefs and strategies when teaching reading in multilingual settin…
Globalization has not only changed our society, it has also had a profound effect on education. Many schools deal with student populations that due to migration have become increasingly multilingual. Politically, few would argue against the importance of multilingualism; rather, it is promoted to the fullest. However, in practical terms the challenges associated with teaching and educational po…
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- -
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- 9783832548421
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- 312p: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 372.4
Discourse in translation
This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute to translation and interpreting as discourse, the ten chapters represent different explorations of ‘global’ theories of discourse and translation. Offering interrogations…
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- -
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- 9781315098791
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- xvii, 243 p.: ill.
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- -
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- 418.02 FAI d
Morphosyntactic variation in medieval Celtic languages : corpus-based approaches
This book showcases the state of the art in corpus-based linguistic analysis of Celtic languages (specifically, Old/Middle Irish, Middle Welsh, and Cornish). It explores corpus approaches to morphosyntactic variation in the medieval Celtic languages and, for the first time, situates them in the broader field of computational and corpus linguistics by providing descriptions of tools for processi…
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- -
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- 9783110680744
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- xviii, 396 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 491.627 LAS m
The linguistics of newswriting
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From empirical micro and theoretical macro perspectives, strategies and practices of research developm…
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- -
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- 9789027271389
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- xiiii, 317 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 302.2 PER t
A global history of ideas in the language of law
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas are articulated in the language of law. Key figures of the history of ideas, like Kant, Hegel and Weber, engaged deeply with the philosophy and sociology of law. This monograph…
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- -
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- 9783944773315
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- xi, 309 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Global Perspectives on Legal History volume 16
- Call Number
- 340.14 SCH a
Significance in language: a theory of semantics
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad …
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- -
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- 9781003259381
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- vi, 330 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Linguistics
- Call Number
- 420.143 FEI s
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