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Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East
(2014)
This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts
(2020)
This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the ...
Time for mapping
(2018)
"The digital era has brought about huge transformations in the map itself, which to date have been largely conceptualised in spatial terms. Novel objects, forms, processes and approaches have emerged and pose new, pressing ...
Chapter 3 Implicature and explicature
(2012)
In this paper, we look in detail at some of the particular micro-processes involved in the online, relevance-driven derivation of explicature and implicatures. But before that, we set out some background intellectual history ...