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This volume brings together 15 papers on the evolution and origin of language. The authors approach the subject from various angles, exploring biological, cultural, psychological and linguistic factors. A wide variety of topics is discussed, such as animal communication, language acquisition, the essentialist-evolutionist debate, and genetic classification.
ECHELON ECHELON is a term associated with a global network of computers that automatically search through millions of intercepted messages for pre-programmed keywords or fax, telex and e-mail addresses. Every word of every message in the frequencies and channels selected at a station is automatically searched. The processors in the network are known as the ECHELON Dictionaries. ECHELON connects all these computers and allows the individual stations to function as distributed elements an integrated system. An ECHELON station's Dictionary contains not only its parent agency's chosen keywords, but also lists for each of the other four agencies in the UKUSA system [NSA, GCHQ, DSD, GCSB and CSE] Somebody's listening . . . and they don't give a damn about personal privacy or commercial confidence.
Tells the story of the making of the H-bomb and reveals how it created a nuclear stalemate that lasted forty years.
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This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. It starts with a presentation of the languages of the family (from English and the other Germanic languages, the Celtic and Slavic languages, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit through Armenian and Albanian) and a discussion of the culture and origin of the Indo-Europeans, the speakers of the Indo-European proto-language.The reader is introduced into the nature of language change and the methods of reconstruction of older language stages, with many examples (from the Indo-European languages). A full description is given of the sound changes, which makes it possible to follow the origin of the different Indo-Europea...
Czasy i przyja nie" to zbior barwnych opowie ci, w ktorych autor opisuje sp dzone na Lubelszczy nie dzieci stwo, pierwsze kroki stawiane w zawodzie pilota, burzliwe wydarzenia wojenne oraz lata sp dzone na emigracji. Nie jest to jednak wy cznie ksi ka wspomnieniowa, bowiem na przyk adzie biografii jednego cz owieka mowi ona o zawik anych i dramatycznych kartach najnowszej historii Polski i wiata. Czytelnik znajdzie w niej rownie portrety ludzi, ktorzy przeszli do dziejow polskiego lotnictwa, pisarzy, aktorow i intelektualistow, jakimi szczyci a si nasza emigracja. ***** "Times and Friendships," is a collection of colourful accounts, describing a childhood spent in the Lublin district, Poland, the author's first steps as a professional pilot, the upheavals of war and the years spent in exile. One man's biography becomes a journey through the intricate and dramatic pathways of the recent history of Poland and the world, with portraits of Polish aviators, writers, actors and intellectuals.
A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash out the terms of the peace. The ink wasn't dry when the recriminations began. The conservatives who hated Roosevelt's New Deal accused him of selling out. Was he too sick? Did he give too much in exchange for Stalin's promise to join the war against Japan? Could he have done better in Eastern Europe...