Download or read book Tuu Here written by Mary Barbee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving to Africa in 1979, from rural, small town Mississippi was a leap of faith and a catalyst for great adventure. With graduation from college looming and looking for direction, a Peace Corps flier crosses Mary Duncan’s path. Mary volunteers to teach Cameroonians how to grow fish for food by building fish ponds in Cameroon. After four months of training, she is assigned to a very isolated post in Yoko. She must adapt to a French speaking, half Muslim world without electricity and plumbing. For the first year, the only other volunteers in the area are a 12 hour bush taxi ride away. Mary gains a unique view of what life is really like in Yoko, where the local tribe, the “Bavuté”, speaks their own patois (language) and are happy to share their opinions on a wide range of topics including homosexuality, polygamy, nuclear bomb programs and whether or not pygmies are indeed human. The first year Mary is occupied with work and survival: learning how to live without modern conveniences, communicate with the locals, and with very little to eat. During the second year, as the locals begin to know and trust her, she gets to look under the surface and discovers not everything is as innocent as it seems. On this journey to the third world, Mary learns as much about herself as she does of the people around her. Mary’s cross-cultural experience attests the commonalities of human beings on higher levels than the boundaries we build between us, and that many challenges that we face are universal: the need for shelter, friendship, and fish. For those thinking to joining the Peace Corps or those looking to travel abroad on a road less traveled, this book can give you honest insight into what you can expect on your own journey.
Download or read book Linguistics An Introduction written by William B. McGregor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Linguistics? How do languages work? Why is this important? Answering these questions and more, Linguistics: An Introduction covers all the key topics that you will need in your study of language and linguistics. Over 17 chapters, William McGregor outlines the core ideas and approaches in the field, tracing their development and discussing the most recent trends. Using examples from a wide range of languages and contexts from around the world, this book assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and contains a host of pedagogic features, including key terms, discussion questions, and exercises, to fully support your learning. Fully revised and updated, this third edition now includes: - A new chapter on corpus linguistics - New topics, including theories of syntax, text typology and the evolution of languages - New 'Research Methods' sections at the end of each chapter - Updated examples drawn from a variety of global perspectives and contexts, ranging from North America to East Asia With a comprehensive companion website featuring additional questions, reading materials, and videos, alongside an online instructor guide, which includes lecture slides, suggested course outlines and structures, and an answer key, this is your essential introduction to the study of linguistics.
Download or read book Ng ti Ruanui written by Tony Sole and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eloquent and detailed Taranki history has grown out of research for the Ngati Ruanui tribal treaty claim against the New Zealand Crown. From pre-Hawaiki times it follows the Aotea canoe from Ranigatea in the Pacific to New Zealand Aotearoa and the settlement of Turi and his people at Patea. The battles and alliances over the centuries and the rich and varied Ngati Ruanui history form the narrative background for the arrival of Pakeha from Europe and the devastation and land confiscations that followed. The story of the successful negotiation of the Ngati Ruanui treaty settlement and the creation of Te Rananga o Ngati Ruanui is told here for the first time. The central theme of this important book is the unwavering determination of the Ngati Ruanui tribe to hold on to their land and their autonomy.
Download or read book Human Rights in Vietnam written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book He Whiriwhiringa written by Bruce Biggs and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines the Maori texts from "Selected Readings in Maori" (3rd ed 1990) and the English translations of those texts, from "Readings from Maori Literature" (1980). The texts and their English translations are published in parallel on facing pages, for ease of comparison. The Maori texts are drawn from various sources.
Download or read book Theoretical Treatment of Large Molecules and Their Interactions written by Zvonimir B. Maksic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French chemist Marcelin Berthelot put forward a classical and by now an often cited sentence revealing the quintessence of the chemical science: "La Chimie cree son objet". This is certainly true because the largest number of molecular compounds were and are continuously synthesized by chemists themselves. However, modern computational quantum chemistry has reached a state of maturity that one can safely say: "La Chimie Theorique cree son objet" as well. Indeed, modern theoretical chemistry is able today to provide reliable results on elusive systems such as short living species, reactive intermediates and molecules which will perhaps never be synthesized because of one or another type of instability. It is capable of yielding precious information on the nature of the transition states, reaction paths etc. Additionally, computational chemistry gives some details of the electronic and geometric structure of molecules which remain hidden in experimental examinations. Hence, it follows that powerful numerical techniques have substantially enlarged the domain of classical chemistry. On the other hand, interpretive quantum chemistry has provided a conceptual framework which enabled rationalization and understanding of the precise data offered either by experiment or theory. It is modelling which gives a penetrating insight into the chemical phenomena and provides order in raw experimental results which would otherwise represent just a large catalogue of unrelated facts.
Download or read book Linguistic Areas written by April McMahon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact across geographical zones. New case studies are accompanied by discussions that revisit some of the more well-established linguistic areas.
Download or read book Boggle Crossdoku written by Kid Beyond and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for lovers of letters and logic, this work presents a twist in mental gymnastics: BOGGLE Crossdoku. It starts with a partially filled grid of letters; your job is to figure out the location of the remaining letters and complete the grid.
Download or read book A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-10-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as much perhaps as do the American and British varieties of English. During 1985, R. M. W. Dixon—one of the most insightful of linguists engaged in descriptive studies today—lived in the village of Waitabu and studied the language spoken there. He found in Boumaa Fijian a wealth of striking features unknown in commonly studied languages and on the basis of his fieldwork prepared this grammar. Fijian is an agglutinating language, one in which words are formed by the profligate combining of morphemes. There are no case inflections, and tense and aspect as shown by independent clitics or words within a predicate complex. Most verbs come in both transitive and intransitive forms, and nouns can be build up regularly from verbal parts and verbs from nouns. The language is also marked by a highly developed pronoun system and by a vocabulary rich in areas of social significance. In the opening chapters, Dixon describes the Islands' political, social, and linguistic organization, outlines the main points of Fijian phonology, and presents an overview of the grammar. In succeeding chapters, he examines a number of grammatical topics in greater detail, including clause and phrase structure, verbal syntax, deictics, and anaphora. The volume also includes a full vocabulary of all forms treated in discussion and three of the fifteen texts recorded from monolingual village elders on which the grammar is based.
Download or read book IISSIIDIOLOGY Vol 3 Variety of Forms of Creative Realization of the Cosmic Human written by Oris Oris and published by https://orisoris.com/. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of «IISSIIDIOLOGY Fundamentals» allows readers to go deeper into yet completely unexplored by us structures that provide functioning of human Self-Consciousness and its interconnections with Self-Consciousnesses Forms focused by it. First two volumes of «IISSIIDIOLOGY Fundamentals» thoroughly describe the deep Nature of Causes and Mechanisms of Creative Activity of everything manifested in multidimensional and different-Qualitative Macrocosmos, including also qualitative Basis of Focus Dynamics of Form-Creators of Universal Structures. The third volume in its turn focuses on the detailed description of basic Principles of exhiberation of Human and other Self-Consciousnesses Forms in all the diversity of different-dimensional diapasons of the Tertiary Illusion. To allow the reader to fully comprehend the essence of the notion «Self-Consciousness Form,» the author describes realization functions of these structures at the example of subjective formation — as a result of life creativity of every personality — of so called personalistic Worlds, which goes far beyond existing scientific notions about the surrounding reality and peculiarities of interaction between Forms structuring it, whether it is a human, a planet, or an elementary particle. Furthermore, he describes different-dimensional variety of Forms of lluuvvumic Direction of development and characteristics of focal realization of Humankind Collective Cosmic Intelligence as a unified the LLUU-VVU-Entity The third volume ends with a detailed description of multi-level manifestation of Plasmic Forces Diapasons of our Universe, which are described from a position of their subjective interpretation through the specific peculiarities of human Perception systems. Endless inner transformations of Universal Illusion, as mechanisms of evolutional growth of the Cosmic Human on its Way to its Universal Future, lets inquisitive readers to form in their Self-Consciousness own highly intuitive conceptions about endless varieties of all possible variants of development, where goes the process of eternal multidimensional Existence of every human personality.
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Download or read book Maori written by Winifred Bauer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today, the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Maori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Maori of the past. Winifred Bauer offers a wide-ranging and detailed description of the structure of the language, covering syntax, morphology and phonology. Based upon narrative texts and data elicited from older native-speaking consultants and illustrated with a wealth of examples the book will be of interest to both linguistic theoreticians and descriptive linguists, including language typologists.
Download or read book An English and Tongan Vocabulary written by Shirley Waldemar Baker and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Words Out of Wood written by M. de Laat and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dozen or so wooden tablets discovered on Easter Island late in the nineteenth century are all that remain of rongorongo--a series of glyphs thought to be the writing system of the island's lost people. In Words Out of Wood, M. de Laat explores the construction and use of these enigmatic figures and makes a compelling case that rongorongo, despite its resistance to decipherment, constitutes nothing less than a fully developed script. Reproduced here in clear, full-page illustrations, the glyphs stand alongside the great moai statues as lasting monuments of the inventiveness and artistry of the remote Pacific island.
Download or read book Wreath Products of Groups and Semigroups written by J D P Meldrum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-06-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wreath products have arisen in many situations in both group and semigroup theory, often providing examples of unexpected behavior, but also in quite fundamental settings. They occur in many applications in science, particularly in physics and chemistry.
Download or read book Southeast Asian Linguistic Studies in Honour of Vichin Panupong written by Arthur S. Abramson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles mainly on the Thai language; includes some on Southeast Asian languages.
Download or read book Impact Maths written by Sue Bright and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Impact Maths textbooks are aimed at the more academic Year 9 pupil. It is written to specifically stretch and challenge them, thereby increasing their enjoyment of the subject. It includes: clear explanations of mathematical ideas; and worked examples that show pupil how to approach problems.
