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"Packed with many cool facts and visuals on where certain animals live and what they eat, this book captures twenty-five humorous--and very true--explanations of why animals look the way they do in order to exist in this world."--Amazon.com.
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Brian Goodwin is Professor of Biology and Coordinator of Holistic Science at Schumacher College, Devon, UK. He is the editor of Theoretical Biology: Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order from Complex Systems and the coauthor of Form and Transformation and Signs of Life.
Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological...
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Dive into the Wild Wicked Wonderful world of the animal kingdom with the Top 10: Body Parts. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Considerate text includes tons of fascinating information and wild facts that will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. A table of contents, glossary with simplified...
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Technical publication volume no. 47
Contribution ... of the Larval Fish Laboratory Colorado State University volume 197
Contribution ... of the Larval Fish Laboratory Colorado State University volume 197
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2016.
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La teoría lingüística se propone derivar los fenómenos sintácticos de cada lengua de principios invariantes de la gramática universal, así como de los parámetros que ésta permita. Este libro estudia desde esa perspectiva una clase determinada de objetos gramaticales: los objetos marcados con una preposición en las lenguas románicas, con especial atención a varios dialectos del español y atendiendo también a fenómenos análogos en otras...
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"A funny and fact-filled look at our astoundingly inconsistent written language, from Shakespeare to spell-check."
-St. Petersburg Times
David Wolman explores seven hundred years of trial, error, and reform that have made the history of English spelling a jumbled and fascinating mess. In Righting the Mother Tongue, theauthor of A Left-Hand Turn Around the World brings us the tangled story of English Spelling, from Olde English to email. Utterly...
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Les traits essentiels de la "communauté linguistique" de la région des Balkans, zone de contacts et de brassages multiples.
Comment s'organisent, sur la base d'une morphologie verbale riche, les structures narratives du macédonien, cette langue slave parlée au coeur des Balkans, dans une zone de contacts et de brassages multiples.
Découvrez un livre de référence qui s'attache à montrer comment s'organisent les structures narratives du macédonien...
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Durante más de treinta años coleccioné errores lingüísticos cometidos por los periodistas; no sé cuántos conseguí; no los he contado nunca ni pienso hacerlo, pero son muchísimos. Hay errores ortográficos, tipográficos, morfológicos, sintácticos, léxicos, extranjerismos, vulgarismos, anacolutos, redundancias... Toda una miscelánea de los desvíos de la norma que, bien sea por descuido o por ignorancia, cometían los profesionales de...
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Siempre abiertos a los cambios dentro del sistema gramatical, con nuestra disciplina lingüística debemos lograr que la lengua sea un verdadero vehículo de comunicación. El objetivo no es memorizar un frío listado de normas, sino reflexionar sobre estas para emplear la palabra adecuada, la construcción gramatical concisa, y redactar con coherencia un escrito; una reflexión normativa que nos permita saber fundamentar la corrección de cada error....
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This book presents the basic grammar of English by using an eclectic approach in a simple style. It synthesizes principles from the various theories of grammar, with emphasis on the two leading Transformational Generative Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar. Among others, its special features are, British English and American English styles, English usage in formal and informal contexts, common errors in English grammar, ample examples, revision...
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"Wie du in 3 Monaten eine neue Sprache lernst" ist ein äußerst praktischer Leitfaden, der dem Leser hilft, sein Sprachlernziel in kürzester Zeit zu erreichen. In diesem Buch findest du einen zweisprachigen Aktionsplan, der das Sprachenlernen in kleine Schritte unterteilt und es dir so erleichtert, schneller Fortschritte zu erzielen.
Es mangelt auch nicht an praktischen Tipps, wie du effektiv Vokabeln lernen oder die Grammatik meistern kannst....
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This volume brings together new research from different theoretical paradigms addressing the acquisition of French. It focuses on the acquisition of French in combination with English, German, Russian or Spanish and enriches our understanding of the particularities of French and the role of language combinations in the acquisition process. The chapters examine the development of different grammatical aspects (word order phenomena, adjective placement,...