This guide was created as a resource for those who want to learn Japanese grammar in a rational, intuitive way that makes sense in Japanese. The explanations are focused on how to make sense of the grammar not from English but from a Japanese point of view. It is released under the Creative Commons License and is free to copy and distribute for non-commercial uses.

This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accomodates both the conceptual and the social-int...(展开全部)

From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention–and a fascinating, comic, deepl...(展开全部)

The Collins Latin Dictionary & Grammar offers the student of Latin the essential two-in-one reference: a comprehensive dictionary and a user-friendly grammar in one handy volume. The Collins Latin Dictionary and Grammar is designed for students of Latin and is the ideal text for anyone who needs easy access to both a dictionary and a grammar reference guide. * The Collins Latin...(展开全部)

赵元任（1892.11.3—1982.2.24），汉族，字宣仲，又字宜重，原籍江苏武进（今常州）。清朝著名诗人赵翼后人。现代著名学者、语言学家、音乐家。 赵元任先后任教于美国康乃尔大学、哈佛大学、中国清华大学、中央研究院史语所、美国夏威夷大学、耶鲁大学、哈佛大学、密歇根大学，1947-1963年任教于加州大学伯克利分校并在伯克利退休。赵元任先后获美国普林斯顿大学（1946）、加州大学（1962）、俄亥俄州立大学（1970）荣誉博士学位，加州大学“教授研究讲师”（1967），北京大学荣誉教授（1981）。 赵元任是中国现代语言学先驱，被誉为“中国现代语言学之父”，同时也是中国现代音乐学之先驱，“中国科学社”的创始人之一。其语言学代表作有《现代吴语的研究》《中国话的文法》《国语留声片课本》等，音乐方面的代表作有《教我如何不想她》《海韵》《厦门大学校歌》等...(展开全部)

This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching's signature style.

Using Francis D.K. Ching's signature presentation, all of the architectural topics covered in this other books are distilled here to serve as an essential one-volume reference. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings. From Arch to Wood, every concept, technology, material and detail imp...(展开全部)

Modern legal theory contains a wide range of approaches and topics: from economic analysis of law to feminist legal theory to traditional analytical legal philosophy to a range of theories about justice. This healthy variety of jurisprudential work has created a problem: students and theorists working in one tradition may have difficulty understanding the concepts and terminolo...(展开全部)

Part dictionary and part encyclopedia, this book has become the standard reference work on the concepts of Marxism and the individuals and schools of thought that have subsequently contributed to the body of Marxist ideas.