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Many developing countries still face difficulties initiating and sustaining economic development. Such difficulties have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in an increasing divergence between rich and poor countries. One crucial question is whether to follow the trajectories of present-day rich countries or seek out different, new trajectories. Although this is a fundamental question, scholars offering mainstream prescriptions have not sufficiently explored it. Drawing on extensive empirical studies of firms and industries, Innovation and Development Detours for Latecomers proposes an effective alternative to prevailing development thinking. It presents a rich menu of development pathways, including a new role for Schumpeterian states whereby they do not follow the paths of technological development already taken by advanced countries. Rather, they can skip certain stages and even create their own detours thereby leapfrogging advanced countries in both manufacturing and service sectors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Drawing on perspectives ranging from generative syntax, optimality theory, computational linguistics, sign language phonology, and language evolution studies, this book explores the current philosophical issues in theoretical linguistics. It is an essential read for linguists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers working in language studies.

This book introduces convex polytopes and their graphs, alongside the results and methodology required to study them. Including background material, open problems, and cutting-edge research, this is the ideal book for readers new to the area.

"Providing a multi-faceted survey of Luigi Pirandello's life and works, this volume explores his sensitivity to place alongside the intellectuals and dramatists who shaped his perspective. It reveals how profound shifts in science, philosophy, culture, and politics at the fin-de-siâecle fashioned him into a revolutionary playwright of his century"--

"This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the "Bloody Code" and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England"--

"This edited volume offers an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the implementation of climate change policies worldwide, exploring ways of improving key regulatory mechanisms. This book is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available as Open Access. Check our website - Cambridge Core - for details"--

Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way of combining elementary semantic units at the bottom of phrase structure up to and including the top of a sentence. Rejecting ternary tense as blocking compositionality, it introduces three levels obtained by binary tense oppositions. It also counters an outdated view on motion by assuming that change is not expressed as having an inherent goal but rather as dynamic interaction between different number systems that allows us to package information into countable and continuous units. It formally identifies the central role of a verb in a variety of argument structures and integrates adverbial modifiers into the compositional structure at different tense levels of phrase structure. This unique contribution to the field will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the syntax-semantics interface.

Taking a fresh approach to integrating key concepts and research processes, this undergraduate textbook encourages students to develop an understanding of how ecologists raise and answer real-world questions. Four unique chapters describe the development and evolution of different research programs in each of ecology's core areas, showing students that research is undertaken by real people who are profoundly influenced by their social and political environments. Beginning with a case study to capture student interest, each chapter emphasizes the linkage between observations, ideas, questions, hypotheses, predictions, results, and conclusions. Discussion questions, integrated within the text, encourage active participation, and a range of end-of-chapter questions reinforce knowledge and encourage application of analytical and critical thinking skills to real ecological questions. Students are asked to analyze and interpret real data, with support from online tutorials demonstrating the R programming language for statistical analysis.

Psychological science constructs much of the knowledge that we consume in our everyday lives. This book is a systematic analysis of this process, and of the nature of the knowledge it produces. The authors show how mainstream scientific activity treats psychological properties as being fundamentally stable, universal, and isolable. They then challenge this status quo by inviting readers to recognize that dynamics, context-specificity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty, are a natural and exciting part of human psychology - these are not things to be avoided and feared, but instead embraced. This requires a shift toward a process-based approach that recognizes the situated, time-dependent, and fundamentally processual nature of psychological phenomena. With complex dynamic systems as a framework, this book sketches out how we might move toward a process-based praxis that is more suitable and effective for understanding human functioning.

Bringing together a team of world-renowned scholars, this handbook is a comprehensive guide to contemporary research into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics. It is essential reading for philosophers interested in language and linguistics, and linguists interested in philosophical analyses.

With contributions from world-renowned experts, this is a pioneering survey of heritage languages, focusing on issues ranging from individual language knowledge to broader societal, educational and policy concerns in a global context. It will be welcomed by researchers and language professionals in a wide range of fields.

Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be contained, and explores the presence of Nietzsche's Greeks in the diverse writings of Jane Harrison, D. H. Lawrence, Martin Heidegger, Richard Schechner and Wole Soyinka (amongst others). From Jane Harrison's controversial ideas about Greek religion in an anthropological modernity, to Wole Soyinka's reimagining of a postcolonial genre of tragedy, each of the writers under discussion used the Nietzschean vision of Greece to develop subversive discourses of temporality, identity, history and classicism. In this way, they all took up Nietzsche's call to disrupt pre-existing discourses of classical meaning and create new modes of thinking about the Classics that speak to the immediate concerns of the present.

The first comprehensive contribution to the field of hydrodynamic instabilities in decades, this book is both a fundamental graduate resource and an authoritative reference volume. The primary focus of turbulence mixing has important applications in a wide range of disciplines including physics, engineering, meteorology, and oceanography.

The ideal, self-contained reference providing in-depth knowledge of magnetic communications written by experts in the field. A complete introduction using accessible language and step-by-step theory with examples. Ideal for graduate students, researchers, and electrical engineers working in wireless communications and the internet of things.

The Augustan Age was the Golden Age of Latin literature. This book explores how a Greek author of Augustan Rome bridged the gap between Greece and Rome, and between historiography and rhetoric. Indispensable for scholars of Augustan Rome and for students of Greek and Latin literature.

Providing an up-to-date overview of a growing field, this Handbook is intended for students and researchers interested in using experimental methods to study syntax. It shows how to conduct experiments, surveys research results so far, and discusses how the increased use of experiments will impact the future of linguistic research.