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Blending poetic language and scientific fact, Carolyn Lesser explores how one magnificent bear lives throughout the year. Impressionistic paintings follow the bear as he hunts, swims, plays, and journeys in the far north. “Lyrical in tone and accurate in zoological detail, the narrative is ideal for one-on-one sharing.”--School Library Journal
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Much attention has been paid to globalization, yet little has been focused on the relationship between the national and sub-national levels of politics. This publication has separate sections on the state in transition; on regionalism, nationalism and separatism; and on the security forces and the maintenance of order. The three states chosen - Britain, France and Spain - have historical similarities as ex-imperial, Atlantic seaboard states with weighty historical and institutional traditions. But they also differ in their institutions, in their centre-periphery relations and in their varying responses to the new phase of change. The authors assess the new constitutional configurations in each state - decentralisation, devolution or autonomous governments - and analyse the effect on the peripheries and the maintenance of order. The book also includes chapters on conflict in Northern Ireland and the Spanish Basque country and discussion of nationalist identity and assertion in the three countries.
This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy. They deal with phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and cover a wide range of Romance languages, including many lesser-known varieties. The contributors to the volume are committed to the view that Romance Linguistics is not narrowly philological, but is rather General Linguistics practised with reference to particular data. The point has been made many times, but is worth reiterating, that Latin and the Romance languages offer an unrivalled wealth of synchronic and historical documentation, and provide both a stimulus and a test-bed for ideas about language structure, language...
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Les Cahiers de Chantilly sont une publication créée en 2008 par le Département d'Histoire Locale du Centre culturel de Chantilly. Ils traitent de sujets inédits, dans des domaines aussi divers que l'histoire politique, sociale, artistique, littéraire de Chantilly et sa région, de l'époque médiévale à nos jours. Le numéro 15 propose 4 articles : - Le Grand canal, ses vassaux et la Grande écluse, l'héritage empoisonné du Grand Condé ou " l'enfer " du décor par Yves Bück - le musée Condé et le Domaine de Chantilly durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale par Nicole Garnier - Spoliation et aryanisation des " biens juifs " à Lamorlaye au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale par Sylvine Cros, Anne Dezobry et Lucienne Jean - Collection : La rentrée du duc d'Aumale, une caricature de Claude Guillaumin dit Pépin, dans le journal satirique Le Grelot du 17 mars 1889 par Sarah Gillois.
Importants contribucions a l'estudi de la transfusió lèxica entre els diccionaris catalans i sobre el pòsit dialectal revelat en la llengua antiga, així com en escrits moderns nord - occidentals.