Applied Languages Books

Over 2,000 years ago the Greeks and Romans worked out pragmatic principles of advocacy which are as applicable to the modern courtroom as they were to the Areopagus or the Forum. Prof. Frost has done superb job of demonstrating this in his excellent work. Quintilian wrote that a lawyer's presentation should be lucid, brief, and worthy of belief. Prof. Frost's work achieves all three of these qualities. The practicing attorney would do well to read this book, and then delve into some of the Classical works it cites. Cicero's "De Inventione" or the anonymous "Rhetorica ad Herennium" would be good places to start.

Two minor criticisms of the book: 1. Prof. Frost cites to the Classical works using standard legal citation style. It would have been more helpful if he had used the citation style of Classicists and historians, citing to the book, chapter, and verse of the ancient authors. 2. He spends more time on the written aspects of advocacy than he does on the oral. Classical rhetoric was nothing if it was not an oral discipline. There is a need for another book applying the Classical rhetorical principles to the trial court rather than the appellate court.

This book really helped me to understand the basis of Maple and C computational problems. I would recommend the potential customer to obtain this extraordinary book by Joseph L.Zachary.

I have this 2 volume set. It won't appeal to everyone because it is very rote and pedagogical(in a good sense) but my oh my it was a Godsend for me. I learned Japanese from this book. Prof. Alfonso explains the grammatical rules concisely and clearly. The book covers Japanese grammar in 1000+ pages of easy-to-read type. His explanations are provided in laymans terms. However, this is still a scholarly work of the highest degree. Between this set of books and the 2 volume set from Seiichi Makino and Michio TsuTsui(Dictionary Of Basic Japanese Grammar(in romanji, hiragana and kanji) and Dictionary Of Intermediate Japanese Grammar(in hiragana and kanji), you can get an advanced understanding of Japanese, well enough to understand virtually and diagram(remembre that from grade school?)any sentence.

1. The books are completely in romanji. While there is some controversy about romanji, this fact does not matter if your goal is to understand conceptually how the Japanese language is structured, as opposed to how native Japanese represent their language symbolically, which is a different goal completely. This book solves the former problem. Get other books if you want to solve the latter.

2. There are no pictures and no attempt is made to teach you about daily Japanese life. This is strictly a grammar book for people who are interested in linguistics in general and Japanese specifically.

John Muir: My Life With Nature is one of the best introductory biographies into the life of this great and influential American naturalist available to young readers today. Told in his own words, the text was compiled and aptly presented by naturalist Joseph Cornell who does full and complete justice in presenting the reader with an accurate and revealing presentation of John Muir's personality, life, thought, and accomplishment. Although designed specifically for young readers, John Muir: My Life With Nature will also be appreciated by adults with an interest in this unique and impressive man and his contributions to public awareness of the need for conservation and wildlife preservation.

If you want to know what science and scientific method is, read this book.

So, what is science? Science is an activity, which produces coherent descriptions of the world. All scientific articles and books are descriptions of some aspects or phenomena's in the world, and they quote each other, build on each other and suplement each other. The descriptions may not all agree, but they are in their own way coherent.

Compared to Kuhn (the man who invented the paradigm) and other science philosophers, Naur's view of science is common sense and easy to use when discussing how scientific work should and should not be done. The consequence ranges from physics to new age philosophers, and to the question of organizing scientific work in new and different ways.

In addition, Naur describes how the quest for knowing the world is misled by fallacies in philosophical tradition and daily thinking. On his way he tears apart significant parts of Bertrand Russell's and Noam Chomsky's thoughts together with a number of academic ideas about language, music and mathematics. You may not agree with everything, but you may become much wiser by reading it.

By far the best book I've ever read on large-Scale non-linear optimization. A must read for math fans.

I'm a bit biased, since my mother is Canadian and we have Cree blood, but overall this book is one of the best linguistics books I've read in a long time. The book gives the history of the "impossible language" (as quoted from the book) that formed from French and aboriginal Canadian languages. The book isn't written only for expert linguists, so anyone can understand the book. Some parts may be difficult for beginners, but those problems are easily solved.

For anyone interested in learning about a language that most of the world doesn't understand, this book is a gem. It won't teach you the language, but it will definitely help you respect and love what might be an ancestral language for you.

Sheldon Bach has written a teriffic book not only about perversion, but also about the development of self states and their regulation. While all of us have the capacity to have masochistic and sadistic elements in out intimate relationships, not all of us become frozen in those dynamics. In his eloquent work, Mr. Bach simply states,"The pain of suffering defends against the greater pain of loss."(p17) It is at this point that we start to see how failed attempts at relating and separating from the primary caregiver lead to part object relationships(fetishes),difficulties with boundries and problems in self regulation. The book gets extra merit for Mr. Bach's ability to bring the theory into the room and into the relationship between patient and analyst. Whether you are a therapist or a patient, this is a must read.

An excellent book. Actually it was purchased for a friend. I enjoy anything that is written by Susan Polis Shultz.

Language Planning from Practice to Theory examines and reviews the field of language policy and planning. In the first section of the book language policy and planning definitions, current practices, goals and ways of thinking are discussed as a foundation for understanding current practice in the discipline. The central elements of language policy and planning practice are then described from two perspectives. In the second section, the methodology for collecting language planning data is outlined and the key cross-societal issues of language-in-education planning, literacy and economics in language planning are discussed. In the third section, case studies related to language and power, bilingualism and status and specific purpose issues in language planning are covered. The final two chapters draw together the critical issues and problems which have arisen from current practice and which must be considered in building a theory of the discipline. A reference appendix to language planning in national situations is included.

The book provides the only up-to-date overview and review of the field of language policy and planning and challenges language planners to think more critically about their discipline. Since language will be planned, there is a need to consider how it will be done.
--- from book's back cover