e-Book Collection

The Philosophy of Science
By:"Alexander Rosenberg"
Published on 2000 by Psychology Press

This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword science.

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
By:"Edward James","Farah Mendlesohn"
Published on 2003-11-20 by Cambridge University Press

Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. It examines science fiction from Thomas More to the present day, and introduces important critical approaches including Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume.

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Writing of Fiction
By:"Edith Wharton"
Published on 1925 by Simon and Schuster

Discusses approaches to writing a short story or novel, and stresses the importance of character and situation

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By:"Stieg Larsson"
Published on 2009 by Vintage

Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.

This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
By:"Martin Maiden"
Published on 2016-03-10 by Oxford University Press

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars adopt a variety of theoretical frameworks and approaches to offer a detailed structural examination of all the individual Romance varieties and Romance-speaking areas, including standard, non-standard, dialectal, and regional varieties of the Old and New Worlds. The book also offers a comprehensive comparative account of major topics, issues, and case studies across different areas of the grammar of the Romance languages. The volume is organized into 10 thematic parts: Parts 1 and 2 deal with the making of the Romance languages and their typology and classification, respectively; Part 3 is devoted to individual structural overviews of Romance languages, dialects, and linguistic areas, while Part 4 provides comparative overviews of Romance phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Chapters in Parts 5-9 examine issues in Romance phonology, morphology, syntax, syntax and semantics, and pragmatics and discourse, respectively, while the final part contains case studies of topics in the nominal group, verbal group, and the clause. The book will be an essential resource for both Romance specialists and everyone with an interest in Indo-European and comparative linguistics.

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Romance Languages
By:"Ti Alkire","Carol Rosen"
Published on 2010-06-24 by Cambridge University Press

Describes the changes which led from colloquial Latin to the five major Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Romance Fiction
By:"Kristin Ramsdell"
Published on 2012 by ABC-CLIO

Presents a comprehensive guide for librarians and readers' advisors, provides a brief history of the romance novel, and offers reading lists and subgenre definitions.

This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword romance.