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Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. Livia uses the term "pronoun envy" ironically to show that rather being a case of misguided envy, battles over gendered ...
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These are the memoirs and reflections on the most acute issues of the contemporary world by a boy from the Estonian countryside who, through accident and pure ambition, ended up as a professor at Moscow University and adviser to President Gorbachev on matters of international law. After a stint as head of Estonian diplomacy at crucial moments in the restoration of its independence, he later became a centennial professor at the LSE and chair of international law at King’s College London. This is not a traditional autobiography. Besides reflecting on issues he dealt with while advising Soviet leaders, such as Yakovlev in his speech on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact or the status of the Kuril Is...
Translation of a work in Russian that gives a summary of the present status of frozen ground science and engineering in the Soviet Union.
Ce cours de Spécialité Mathématiques pour Terminale répond à plusieurs attentes d'élèves : il présente un contenu épuré ciblé directement pour la Terminale, d'une grande rigueur, tout en se suffisant à lui-même. L'élève y trouvera donc toutes les explications et les réponses à ses questions, de A à Z sans avoir à consulter d'autres manuels. En somme, il propose : un cours clair, rigoureux et complet ;des démonstrations détaillées ;des exercices d'entraînement et d'approfondissement. Grâce à son niveau d'exigeance, ce livre garantit une excellente passerelle pour les études supérieures pour tout élève souhaitant s'orienter vers une majeure mathématique.
With in-depth complete coverage on the installation process, editing and typesetting, graphical user interfaces, programming, system administration, and managing Internet sites, this is the only book users new to Linux will need. The book guides users to a high-level of proficiency with all the flavors of Linux, and helps them with crucial system administration chores.
This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of six workshops, EvoWorkshops 2003, held together with EuroGP 2003 in Essex, UK in April 2003. The 63 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 109 submissions. In accordance with the six workshops covered , the papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics, combinatorial optimization, image analysis and signal processing, evolutionary music and art, evolutionary robotics, and scheduling and timetabling.
Devoted to letters, the arts and discussion.