Bøger af Christopher Woods

"An exploration of the botany, geology, anthropology, and more of 50 UNESCO Natural Heritage Sites"--

This sumptuously illustrated survey of 50 of the most innovative modern gardens from around the world - chosen by venerable garden-world authority Christopher Woods - is the perfect armchair travel guide.

Cy Sullivan, failed alcoholic author, has returned to his hometown from years of exile, scandal and disgrace, not I triumph but simply to die. He has but a week to compose his great American novella, Curse of the Blue Nun, which he cynically structures in relation to the seven days of creation in the Book of Genesis. A surrealist bible of sorts--but unlike the original, this one does not purport to be true.Featuring illustrations by Pitroick Hanson and Lawrence McWilliams inspired, in part, by the work of Gustave Dore, Last Song and Dance is a darkly comic satire of all that is held dear.

The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice. The latter is represented by heavy and light markers that differ with respect to focus and emphasis. As a system of grammatical voice, the conjugation prefixes provided Sumerian speakers with a linguistic means of altering the perspective from which events may be viewed, giving speakers a series of options for better approximating in language the infinitely graded spectrum of human conceptualization and experience.