Product Description: Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...read more

Traces the development of the British rock group, Joy Division, and discusses the band's recordings and concert performances

Traces the development of the British rock group, Joy Division, and discusses the band's recordings and concert performances

Product Description: This book is the story of Joy Division from their earliest beginnings as Stiff Kittens/Warsaw in 1976 and 1977 through New Order's 1983 record releases. It was written by Mark Johnson with additional writings by Paul Morley and others...read more

Because of the ease of their implementation, attribute-value based theories of grammar are becoming increasingly popular in theoretical linguistics as an alternative to transformational accounts and in computational linguistics. This book provides a formal analysis of attribute-value structures, their use in a theory of grammar and the representation of grammatical relations in such theories of grammar. It provides a classical treatment of disjunction and negation, and explores the linguistic implications of different representations of grammatical relations. Mark Johnson is assistant professor in cognitive and linguistic sciences at Brown University. He was a Fairchild postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1987-88 academic year.

Product Description: A programmed learning approach to medical terminology for beginning health occupations students. Organized by body systems and includes games, self-tests, and positive reinforcement. 3-1/2 inch DOS disc with user's guide.

Product Description: Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations...read more

Product Description: During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of their radical implications for metaphor research and because they require us to rethink some of our most fundamental received notions of meaning, concepts, and reason...read more

Product Description: The highest spiritual blessing God can give is to make believers in Jesus his children. Adoption into the family of God is a greater privelige than becoming right with God through receiving forgiveness of one's sins. As His children, Christians have been given a place of high status and are entitled to all the benefits that come through this permanent relationship with their heavenly Father...read more

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Product Description: This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers and transnational consumers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays and case studies exploring current research on the consequences of migration in Europe offer social workers the tools for working in multicultural populations

Product Description: Cisco authorized self-study book for CCNP Remote Access foundation learning *Prepare for CCNP certification while learning the fundamentals of remote access networks *Apply Cisco solutions for assembling and cabling WAN components *Enable on-demand connections by configuring asynchronous connections with modems and configuring Point-to-Point Protocol *Enhance on-demand connectivity using ISDN and DDR technologies *Learn how to manage permanent connections with X...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Baseball Skills & Drills is the most comprehensive training book available for coaches and players at all levels. You will learn the best skills and drills for improving overall performance at every stage of the game, thus improving your chances at winning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Some of the most popular all-time Latin hits recorded by Gloria Estefan, Tito Puente, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Julio Iglesias, Mark Anthony, and Carlos Santana arranged for instrumentalists of all ages. Titles include: Begin the Beguine * Con los Años Que Me Quedan * Corcovado * El Día Que Me Quieras * Europa * Girl from Ipanema * La Nave del Olvido * Mi Tierra * Noelia * Oye Como Vá * Por el Amor de una Mujer * Quando, Quando, Quando * Siboney * Te Quiero, Te Quiero * Vivir Lo Nuestro...read more

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Demonstrates the information that composers need to produce professional sheet music using Coda's Finale, covering topics including fast note entry, part extraction, advanced score layout, and using MIDI.

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Product Description: This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.