Language History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 9

The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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Laura Gardner
Marginal Fashion Publishing

Surveying the history of marginal fashion publishing, this work explores how these projects have re-imagined fashion from the commercial fringes in their approaches to production, content, and disseminati…

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Brian Michael Murphy
We the Dead

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that …

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Kate Mattingly
Shaping Dance Canons

American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsExamining a century of dance criticism in the United States and its influence on aesthetics and inclusionDance criticism has lon…

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George Boys-Stones
Apuleius on the Cosmos

Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristot…

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Global Asias

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge for…

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Raúl Rojas,
The Language of Mathematics

A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-rang…

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Ronald Bishop, Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Ronald Bishop, Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Ulrich Marzolph
The Arabic Fable

This is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. The introduction presents a detailed effort to define the Arabic fable and a condensed …

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Aristote
The Art of Rhetoric

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics...Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most i…

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Blake Scott Ball
Charlie Brown's America

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the vo…

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T E Franklinos, Rino Modonutti,
Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to…

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Joshua S Mostow
Hyakunin'shu

"Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a popular annota…

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Anthony Kenny
A New History of Western Philosophy

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from an…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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Katharine Lee Bates
America the Beautiful and Other Poems

The words to one of the United States' most beloved songs, "America, The Beautiful," were originally a poem written in 1893 by Wellesley College English professor Katherine Lee Bates, who found …

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Rob Christensen
Southern News, Southern Politics

Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina's capital newspaper, the News and Observer , for decades. Here he tel…

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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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Gayle Feldman
Nothing Random

The "exhilarating" (The Boston Globe) story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary an…

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