Language History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 10

Telmo Pievani
Multiplicity

The awe-inspiring, little-known story of Nobel laureate Frances Arnold's discovery of directed enzyme evolution---and how it was sparked by reading Jorge Luis Borges.In 1976, a young engineering student f…

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Anonymous Sounds

This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s.Library music was inexpensive, off-the-shelf music available to license for a sm…

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Francine Prose
1974

"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism---uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of iro…

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Picturing Peace

"What is the relationship between peace and photography? How are artists and curators motivated to convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Does the digital afterlife of iconic images …

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Deborah Warren
Street Smarts

Travel through the endless lore of roads, turnpikes, highways, and whatever byways humans have put on Earth in these short, funny, and interconnected essays.Deborah Warren is a sure and entertaining guide…

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Laura Spinney
Proto

*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMANAND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025*'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian'A magisterial feat' New ScientistOne ancient language transforme…

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Paulina Banas
Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

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Raritan on War

On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies…

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Raritan on War

On War gathers together some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies…

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Ammonius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 10-14

This commentary of Ammonius (c. 440-520 AD) on Aristotle "On Interpretation" discusses philosophical ideology and is the only commentary written out and published by Ammonius, professor of philo…

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Intersection

Discover up-to-date findings--and debates--in the field of New Testament textual criticism from the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.Intersection explores ways in which New Testament text…

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Steve Oney
On Air

An "engrossing and entertaining...major work of media history" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media emp…

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Laurence Roth
Unpacking My Father's Bookstore

Unpacking My Father's Bookstore brings to life the history of J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, which was a microcosm of the Los Angeles Jewish community from 1966 to 1994 and one of t…

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Amy Reading
The World She Edited

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award"Meticulously researched." ---The New York Times" A first-rate biography." ---Washington PostA lively …

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Ronald E Chennault
Anti-Public

Consider this: Restrictions placed by state legislatures on what schools can teach about America's history of conquest and enslavement. Broad bans enacted by local school boards that remove meaningful boo…

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Carl P E Springer,
The Latin Verse of Martin Luther

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of …

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Samuel Lemley
Rare Books & Ancestral Machines

Spotlights a treasured collection of objects from Carnegie Mellon's special collections to mark the reopening of the Posner Center.Rare Books & Ancestral Machines is a portable guide to the Posner Cen…

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Linda Sue Park,
Yaks Yak

As yaks yak to one another and ducks duck rams who ram, Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park presents a sprightly and comic introduction to a fun form of wordplay, homographs, as engaging animal characters ena…

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Estelle Haan,
The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's La…

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Sophie Heywood,
Children's Publishing in Cold War France

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated t…

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