Author: Thomas V. Gamkrelidze File Type: pdf Gamkrelidze and Ivanovs wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work, superbly translated from Russian, is a must for every student of Indo-European prehistory. Its erudition is unsurpassed, and its unorthodox conclusions are a continuing challenge. Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut fur Evolutionare Anthropologie The authors propose a revision of views on a number of central issues of Indo-European studies. Based on findings of typology, they suggest a new analysis of the phonological system of Proto-Indo-European (the Glottalic Theory) they offer novel assumptions about the relative chronology of changes in PIE vowels and laryngeals. Their conclusions are compared with data from Proto-Kartvelian. In the second part of the book, semantically organized presentation of material from the lexicon is combined with analyses of the use of forms and formulae in a broadly defined cultural context. Again similarities with properties of primarily Kartvelian and Semitic are described , and extended close contacts with these language families are postulated. This necessarily leads to a proposal to place the hypothetical Urheimat of the Indo-Europeans in the region south of the Caucasus. Volume and II of the original Russian edition have been combined in the English version as Part I the Bibliography and Indexes are published as Part II.

Author: Brian Thill File Type: pdf Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, its also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intellectual relationships to our own refuse nuclear waste, climate debris, pop-culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. **Review Fascinating, thought-provoking, and necessary, Brian Thills Waste is about not just our present but our future. You cant read it and come out of the experience unchanged. Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Southern Reach trilogy If waste, as Brian Thill points out, is any object plus time, then Waste is waste plus spirited curiosity and tremendous intelligence. With a gaze full of vigor and heart, Thill looks at the fate of what we discard-from space junk to horse corpses to bird bellies split open from plastic-and illuminates invisible margins wed often rather forget. I read the whole book in one sitting, spellbound. Leslie Jamison, New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Empathy Exams Waste is the finest filth around-or really the finest mediation of it I can think of Thill looks deeply into how what we waste controls us at the level of the personal and the public-our discards become our fate and home both-and finds treasure. Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night The Object Lessons series achieves something very close to magic the books take ordinaryeven banalobjects and animate them with a rich history of invention, political struggle, science, and popular mythology. Filled with fascinating details and conveyed in sharp, accessible prose, the books make the everyday world come to life. Be warned once youve read a few of these, youll start walking around your house, picking up random objects, and musing aloud I wonder what the story is behind this thing?Steven Johnson, best-selling author of How We Got to Now Six Innovations That Made the Modern World The Object Lessons project, edited by game theory legend Ian Bogost and cultural studies academic Christopher Schaberg, commissions short essays and small, beautiful books about everyday objects from shipping containers to toast. The Atlantic hosts a collection of mini object-lessons, brief essays that take a deeper look at things we generally only glance upon (Is bread toast only insofar as a human toaster perceives it to be done? Is bread toast when it reaches some specific level of nonenzymatic browning?). More substantive is Bloomsburys collection of small, gorgeously designed books that delve into their subjects in much more depth. Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing About the Author Brian Thill is Assistant Professor of English at BCCCUNY.