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More so than most other Polynesian languages, the Samoan language is highly stratified. The common spoken form of Samoan used among friends and peers, for example, would be inappropriate for public speaking at both traditional and non-traditional gatherings. At these kinds of events, Gagana...

'O voto: Scene popolari napoletane in tre attiUna piccola piazzetta al Pendino. In fondo, tra due vicoli, la tintoria di Vito Amante. Drappi di ogni colore pendono dagli stipiti e da bastoni di legno sull'architrave. Per terra, davanti alla bottega, a sinistra di chi...

'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The CreationSir, About two Years ago, upon a slight Misapprehension of some Expressions of yours, which my Resentment, or perhaps my Pride, interpreted to the Disadvantage of a Poetical Trifle, I had then newly publish'd,...

'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'SHE emerges from the shop. She is any woman, and the shop from which she emerges is any shop in any town. She has been shopping. This does not imply that she has been buying anything or that...

'Our Guy' - or, The elder brotherOut on the frosty air floated the sound of bells. Merrily, joyously they pealed forth to welcome the new life that had just dawned, while from far and near the guns gave out their noisy greeting. Sad hearts...

This volume surveys the historical development of the notion of personality as brought into relief by salient patristic and medieval theologians, culminating with the thought of St. Albert the Great. The philosophical problems of "subsistence", "individuation", "relative distinction" and "signification", amongst others, are ciritically...

'PossumI The "House Beautiful" II Breaking Bad News III Gordon's Farm IV Into the Unknown V The Home-Coming VI A Day in the Country VII The Riding of Jane VIII RainAnd a Friend IX "Maggie or Something" X 'Possum Takes Hold XI Farmers in...

Asylum law in the European Union is ripe with caveats that allow for rejecting asylum applications due to 'protection' received in the home country or another location. Yet, when is 'protection' strong enough to make denying an application lawful?Author: LehmannPublisher: Brill NijhoffPublished: 09/17/2020Pages: 304Binding...

Written in Lawrence's most productive period, the two essays Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921) and Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922) propose an alternative to what Lawrence perceived as the Freudian psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious and the incest motive. In doing so they also...

This book is the first comprehensive account of the Argentine magazine Punto de Vista (1978-2008), a cultural review that gathered together prominent Argentine intellectuals throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century. Directed by cultural historian and public intellectual Beatriz Sarlo, the story of...

Over the past three decades, guidance on the selection of art in hospitals has suggested realistic art that depicts soothing and comforting images such as tranquil waters, green vegetation, flowers, and open spaces. Based on these findings, curators have been cautioned to avoid art...

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. It has often been anthologised, and has been published several times as a short book. The Book 5 of Panchatantra,...

'Round the Year in Myth and SongThis book is intended for use in all grades of elementary schools, the method of presentation varying with the age of the pupils. It has been welcomed even by pupils in higher schools, because easily familiarizing them with...

'Round the yule-log: Christmas in NorwayThe wind was whistling through the old lime and maple trees opposite my windows, the snow was sweeping down the street, and the sky was black as a December sky can possibly be here in Christiania. I was in...

This volume rounds out an important trilogy of studies by Pierre Payer on the topic of sex in the ecclesiastical thought and writings of the middle ages that began with Sex and the Penitentials: The Development of a Sexual Code, 550-1150 (1984) and continued...

'Smiles': A Rose of the CumberlandsI wish to acknowledge, most gratefully, the valuable assistance rendered to me, in the preparation of the chapters dealing with the medical and hospital incidents, by Robert W. Guiler, M.D.; by Alonzo J. Shadman, M.D., to whom I am...

't Bedrijf van den kwade't Loof kleurde om de kruin der boomen, die achterwaarts stonden, statig en hooge, in den diepen hof; en 't lager plantsoen van 's gelijken verfde bij plaatsen, onder 't komend gewaai van den herfst, zijn bladeren geel of rossig,...

't BollekenHij was op het dorpje geboren en had er zijn gansche leven gewoond. Zijn huis,--'t kasteelken*, zooals de menschen het noemden,--stond heel alleen aan 't uiteinde der lange straat, daar waar de steenweg zich in tween splitst, rechts en links, naar andere dorpen.--*Een...

More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life historiesAuthor: A. James Hammerton, Alistair ThomsonPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 05/05/2005Pages: 400Binding...

'That Very Mab' The moonlight, in wave on wave of silver, flooded all the Sacred Island. Far away and faint ran the line of the crests of Samoa, like the hills of heaven in the old ballad, or a scene in the Italian opera....