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A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory
This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis....
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Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting
Richard Wollheim is one of the dominant figures in the philosophy of art, whose work has shown not only how paintings create their effects but why...
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A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
Whereas traditional commentaries tend to be comprehensive and micro-textual, this narratological commentary focuses on one aspect of the Odyssey, its...
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Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning
This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. The first part...
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A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey
Whereas traditional commentaries tend to be comprehensive and micro-textual, this narratological commentary focuses on one aspect of the Odyssey, its...
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Satires of Rome
This new survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader’s cultural and political...
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Mood and Modality
Since the publication of F. R. Palmer’s first edition of Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of ‘modality’ was fairly unfamiliar, there...
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Uneasy Virtue
The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have...
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Satires of Rome
This new survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader’s cultural and political...
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Biolinguistics
This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the...
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Practical Rules
Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure...
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Using Italian Synonyms
This is an essential reference for intermediate and advanced students of Italian as well as teachers and other professional linguists seeking access...
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Breakdown of Will
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals...
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Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus’ poems as social performances of a poetics of manhood: a...
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Using Italian Synonyms
This is an essential reference for intermediate and advanced students of Italian as well as teachers and other professional linguists seeking access...
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Scientific Essentialism
Scientific Essentialism defends the view that the fundamental laws of nature depend on the essential properties of the things on which they are said...
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The Syntax of Early English
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of...
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Living without Free Will
Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions...
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Tacitus: Dialogus de oratoribus
Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus is his most neglected work - there has not been an English-language commentary in over a century - and yet it is...
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Ontology, Identity, and Modality
This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen’s essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in...
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Ontology, Identity, and Modality
This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen’s essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in...
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Ancient Epistolary Fictions
The first comprehensive look at fictive letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. It includes both embedded epistolary narratives in a...
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