As modern life creates new health challenges, scientific research reveals the benefits of forests. This collection highlights up-to-date findings on the beneficial effects of forests on human health, providing evidence that can be implemented in practice and policy.
Technological progress has advanced the forgery of monuments, threatening their historical value. This book presents scientific methods for detecting fakes to help preserve our heritage.
Forgotten British Film
Gillett exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last 70 years, including Daybreak (1948), and he probes the reasons for their neglect. He considers the contributions of those involved in the films and examines such issues as the response of critics and audiences.
This book is a collection of biographies of forgotten leaders in the temperance movement. Recovering the lives and works of these reformers enhances our understanding of the movement and is for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements.
Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014
Drawing together papers delivered at the 2014 meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, this volume explores a wide range of musical cultures, and reflects a strong emphasis on understanding the forms and processes of music through analysis.
Divided into two sections, this publication focuses, firstly, on theoretical linguistics, addressing issues in such areas as phonology, morphology and syntax. It then investigates the intricacies of language acquisition and discourse analysis, among other topics.
This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, and phonology of the Celtic languages. Leading linguists offer articles on Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics.
This book explores the social conditions for valuing education and the limits of sociology in addressing this problem. Its central idea is that the main challenges refer to the conditions of autonomy of the social sciences, especially when studying higher social spheres.
Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin
This collection of papers explores comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. Comparing Latin with other languages, it represents grammar as the product of mental processes for linguists, teachers, and students seeking to update their approach.
Formal Methods in Musicology
Techniques from mathematics and statistics are successfully applied to music analysis, helping us understand style and composition. Using examples from various musical styles, this book explains how to use these techniques, supported by case studies from expert researchers.
This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard’s archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.
Reflecting the complexity of the problems of formalization, computation and digitalization of data and resources, this collection of cutting-edge, high-quality papers is a fundamental step towards a better definition of the role the “Digital Humanities” will play in the future.
Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics presents current research by young scholars on challenging phenomena in various Slavic languages. The volume expands its scope to include all areas of theoretical linguistics and will interest Slavic scholars and linguists alike.
Showcasing the powerful NooJ linguistic environment, this volume presents 18 articles from the 2012 conference, exploring topics from morphology and syntax to semantics and real-world applications.
Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ 2013
This volume contains 17 articles from the 2013 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is an open source linguistic development environment and corpus processor used by researchers and companies to build Natural Language Processing applications and analyze large corpora.
This volume is composed of 22 peer-reviewed contributions from the 2014 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to formalize linguistic phenomena and develop Natural Language Processing applications.
Formations of Identity
The contributions here explore the ways in which physical landscape has been appropriated by artists to represent political, social, and national identities in a variety of geographical and historical contexts.
Bell methodically assesses fear as an emergent property and explores the main principles which lie behind the manifestation of fear. He shows how fear can be contained, how new social forms can arise and how new behaviours and social qualities can mitigate Formations of Terror.
Forms of Experienced Environments
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
This book illustrates the objectives and construction of reduced English forms like Basic English and Globish. All share a common goal: to build a language tool for effective international communication, a lingua franca for a globalized world. For students and scholars.
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