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A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages

Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near EastFilled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Easte…

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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…

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Gabe Henry
Enough Is Enuf

A brief and humorous 500-year language history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.Why does theG in George sound differen…

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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…

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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…

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A Cultural History of Translation

How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions…

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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…

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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…

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Adrienn Almásy-Martin, Yanne Broux
Greek Personal Names in Egypt

Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and payi…

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Cleophilus' de Coetu Poetarum and Iustus Lipsius' Somnium

Providing the first edited text, translation and commentary of two Renaissance dream-narrative satires, this edition sheds light on the period's literary history and reception of classical texts. Cleophil…

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Zongli Lu
Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires

This is the first English translation of Lu Zongli's major study of rumor in the early Chinese empires. Lu explores how rumor, a non-official form of public opinion, formed and spread through non-official…

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Salvatore Del Gaudio
Ukrainian Border Dialects in Belarusian-Russian Contact Areas

This book presents a contemporary, primarily synchronic, linguistic analysis of the essential dialectal features characterizing the dialects spoken in the Ukrainian-Belarusian-Russian border area.Utilizin…

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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 …

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Michael Freeden
Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking

Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking investigates silence as a normal, ubiquitous, and indispensable element of political thinking, theory, and language. It explores the diverse d…

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Bernard Mees
King Arthur and the Languages of Britain

Medievalists have denied the historical existence of King Arthur for over 50 years . Arthur and the Languages of Britain demonstrates how linguistic evidence can be employed to see if the earliest histori…

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Curating Socialism

Curating Socialism takes a rare look into the world of international art exhibitions organized by socialist states between 1947-1989.The handbook examines the mechanisms, relationships, and international …

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An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women

This anthology showcases Neo-Latin texts produced by women across Europe between circa 1400 and 1800, highlighting their contributions in both poetry and prose. Each chapter offers excerpts alongside acce…

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Rishi Rajpopat
Pāṇini's Perfect Rule

Linguist Rishi Rajpopat solves an ancient puzzle, showing that P¿¿ini's Sanskrit grammar is self-sufficient. Centuries of commentators, having misunderstood it, created tools to overcome its supposed flaw…

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Cynthia Farrar
The Origins of Democratic Thinking

The Athenians invented democracy - and as they grappled with the implications, they also invented democratic political theory. By reconstruing Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democri…

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Jean Starobinski,
Action and Reaction

A study of the word pair action and reaction embracing philosophy, semantics, literature, and science.

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