The Self-Sufficient Gardener

Summary: The ultimate vegetable gardening book
Rating: 5

My grandfather gave me this book years ago, and I consider it my vegetable gardening bible. I second what other reviewers have said...if I could only have one book, this would be it, and I can't believe that it is out of print! I haven't looked at Seymour's newer book (I'm sure it's great, too) but I cherish my aged, tattered paperback copy of this book and will always consider it my first point of reference.

Goya: The Last Carnival

Goya: The Last Carnival provides a new and insightful reading of Goya, concentrating on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the 'world turned upside down'.

This book is devoted to various explorations of how linguistics and pragmatics together can shed light on the contrasts between languages in their discourse-cultural settings. It arises from presentations and discussions held at the Fourth International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC4), which took place in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain from 20 to 23 September 2005.1 The twelve chapters analyse linguistic phenomena across different languages, taking into account their co-texts as well as the socio-cultural contexts in which they arise. The first two sections consider various questions of information structure, discourse analysis and lexis; each chapter is concerned in some way with the interplay between, on the one hand, grammatical and lexical organization and, on the other, the contexts in which utterances are used and texts emerge. The final chapters of the book consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning.

A recurrent issue in linguistic theory and psychology concerns the cognitive status of memorized lists and their internal structure. In morphological theory, the collections of inflected forms of a given noun, verb, or adjective into inflectional paradigms are thought to constitute one such type of list. This book focuses on the question of which elements in a paradigm can stand in a relation of partial or total phonological identity. Leading scholars consider inflectional identity from a variety of theoretical perspectives, with an emphasis on both case studies and predictive theories of where syncretism and other "paradigmatic pressures" will occur in natural language. The authors consider phenomena such as allomorphy and syncretism while exploring questions of underlying representations, the formal properties of markedness, and the featural representation of conjugation and declension classes.

Ably introduced by Caughie and building on a broad range of theoretical and cultural studie work by Diane Gillepsie, Brenda Silver, Gillian Beer, and others, the ten essays first pair Woolf and Walter Benjamin as beleaguered intellectuals in the marketplace (p.1) and analysts of modern machine-age European culture. They then explore Woolfs conceptual and artistic-responses to sound, film, cinematic, telescopic, automotive, and photographic technologies, consider Woolf as subject and object of mass-market designs, and speculate on possible e-text metamorphoses of Woolf and reading.