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Testamenta Eboracensia

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Julie L. Reed

Land, Language, and Women

Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and reservation schools established by the US government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Nati…

Amy Azzarito

Secret Language of Victorian Jewelry

Discover the forgotten Victorian meanings behind the gems, jewels, and symbols in our everyday jewelry with this entrancing guide to more than sixty classic motifs.Hearts, butterflies, and buckles are the…

Understanding Science with Large Language Models?

How are large language models (LLMs) changing research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS)? The contributors to this volume show how these tools open new possibilities for interpre…

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai

Surrender to God Across Languages

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.How did languages relate to one another and to intellectual agendas in a highly multilingual milieu like premodern India?Surrend…

Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn

An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn

An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Simon Rattle - Musik im 20.Jahrhundert

Felicity Palmer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Amanda Roocroft, Peter Donohoe, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Wayne Marshall, Jeanne Loriod, Rex Lawson, Willard White, Lydia Ariken, Gidon Kremer, London Sinfonietta Voic…

Steven H Jaffe

Four-Letter Nation

The untold story of how America really talks, for readers of Mary Roach and Bill Bryson---and anyone who's ever wondered about the power of "bad" words.For 400 years, Americans have been told to…

John Davie

Greek To Us

John Davie, co-author of Et Tu, Brute? turns his attention to Ancient Greece. With a foreword by Harry Mount.Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an act…

Bill Griffiths

Whare de Yea Belang?

"Abackabeyont, bait-poke, drucken, fettle, guissie pigs, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, yem, zookers!" If you enjoy finding out about dialect words - how and where and when they were used - and …

Miniatures One + Two

Ian Rapley

Green Star Japan

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities offered by the proposed language known as Esperanto. Created in the nineteenth century …

Modest Mussorgskij

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)

Gyles Brandreth

Prose & Cons

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it's evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the En…

James Geary

The World in a Phrase

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.Aphorisms are literature's hand…

Kevin Ashton

The Story of Stories

An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history---from mankind's earliest fires to the latest smart phones---that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, &q…

Ben Yagoda

Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…

Ward Farnsworth, Sarah van der Pas

The Latin Tamer

Learn to read the Romans! This book is an exciting new way to discover the Latin language. Whether you want to master it or just see enough to enjoy some time travel, The Latin Tamer makes the journey a p…