Language History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 7

Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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Bill Kovarik
Revolutions in Communication

Revolutions in Communication, now in its 3rd edition, successfully provides an exploration of printing, imaging, electronic and digital media history within a framework of technological change and social …

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J P Mallory
The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered

A lifetime's study brings revealing expertise to an oft-misunderstood topic in human history--the origin and language of the Indo-Europeans.

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Thomas Hofweber
Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality

Do human beings have a special place in reality? Thomas Hofweber argues that we are special because there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. His form of idealism holds t…

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Melissa Adler
Peculiar Satisfaction

How Thomas Jefferson's vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it -- and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Inde…

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones--- they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine , Joel J. Miller sho…

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Courtney M Block
Inside the World's Haunted Libraries

Experience firsthand encounters with the paranormal in libraries from around the world!Have you ever noticed that libraries emanate a certain energy? If you've ever been alone in a library, chances are yo…

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 2

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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Women Re-Creating Classics

"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discuss…

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Keith Warren Lloyd
The War Correspondents

The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII's European TheaterErnie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite…

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Sara Cassidy,
Star Sailor, the Story of Words

Humans need words to communicate, whether they are spoken, written, signed or even sung. But what exactly is a word? And why does the way we use words continue to change?The English language has morphed, …

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Picturing Peace

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores …

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Mary Beth Norton
I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer

"In the late seventeenth century, the bookseller John Dunton began soliciting anonymous questions for a new broadsheet periodical, The Athenian Mercury, that he hoped would provide entertainment and …

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Douglass K Daniel
Kill-Do Not Release

"Fighter-Writer" reports from major battles in the Pacific highlight what America's Marines endured in World War IIDouglass K. Daniel presents a fascinating trove of previously classified materi…

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Cicero,
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. de Lege Agraria

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, a…

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Aniruddha Dutta
Globalizing Through the Vernacular

Globalizing through the Vernacular analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of femini…

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Teresa Zackodnik
Great Thinkers and Doers

A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.In Great Thinkers an…

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The Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory

The resurgence of interest in rhetoric among political theorists is one of the most remarkable developments in the field over the past few decades. Assembling a multidisciplinary group of prominent schola…

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David Krolikoski
Lyrical Translation

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation. As the use of Korean became increasingly restricted during the Japanese occupation, tra…

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