This volume is based upon the presentations made at an international conference in London on the subject of 'Fractals and Chaos'.

Acting Out brings together two short books (the autobiographical I>How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us) by Bernard Stiegler, the fruit of the discipline he developed in prison and of the passion he brings to his ...

To what extent can mediation schemes achieve the aims of their exponents? Martin Wright and Burt Galaway assess the international experience of mediation in theory and in practice.

Professor Samuels presents a comprehensive explanation of the reasons for linguistic change, applying his theory in particular to the history of English.

Semantics for Descriptions addresses itself as much to linguists as to computer scientists, arguing that rational hermeneutics can offer better descriptive methods by allowing the theoretical and practical conditions of text interpretation ...

The volume comes out as an integrated view based in the expertise of Ibero American neuroscientists working in the field. A comprehensive overview of the many factors that can influence brain plasticity throughout the lifespan.

This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole.

A replacement of the author's well-known book on Translation Theory, In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980), this book makes a case for Descriptive Translation Studies as a scholarly activity as well as a branch of the discipline, ...

This is probably the first time that such extensive reports on the practice of victim-offender mediation in Europe have been brought together in this way.

By telling the story of Skovmand and his colleagues, The Viking in the Wheat Field sheds welcome light on an agricultural sector--plant genetic resources--on which our food supply is crucially dependent.