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Modest Mussorgskij

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)

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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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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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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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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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Ward Farnsworth
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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Norman Domeier,
American Journalists in Hitler's Germany

Examines American journalists' and media companies' roles in Hitler's Germany, reigniting the debate on the relationship between political power and the media.Despite Hitler's international use of propaga…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada
The Mana of Translation

"In The Mana of Translation: Translational Flow from the Baibala to the Mauna, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada makes visible the often unseen workings of translation in Hawai°i from the advent of Hawaiian alpha…

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Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada
The Mana of Translation

"In The Mana of Translation: Translational Flow from the Baibala to the Mauna, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada makes visible the often unseen workings of translation in Hawai°i from the advent of Hawaiian alpha…

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Gabe Henry
Enough Is Enuf

A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.

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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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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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Cicero: Divinatio in Q. Caecilium

"Indispensable for students and scholars of Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and Roman law, this new critical edition, destined to become the new standard, is accompanied by a thorough commentary …

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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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