History Of Language – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Page 4

Yi-Tang Lin
Statistics and the Language of Global Health

Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material from three continents, t…

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Raúl Rojas,
The Language of Mathematics

"Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories …

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Jérôme Sueur,
Natural History of Silence

"In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans--the kind of d…

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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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Jérôme Sueur,
Natural History of Silence

"In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans--the kind of d…

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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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Jennifer Manoukian
Purist Pursuits

Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Man…

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Benjamin E Frey
Rising Above

Rising Above examines the process of language shift and revitalization among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.

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Charles Taylor
The Language Animal

From Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create ways of being, as individuals and as a society. Here, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative pr…

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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
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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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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David Beaver, Jason Stanley
The Politics of Language

A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language , David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account …

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Todd S Frobish
Discourses at Play

Todd Frobish explores a diverse set of historical crises through the lens of "rhetorical gameplay", an approach that serves as the intersection between rhetorical theory and game studies.The fie…

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Eleni Bozia
Politics of Language

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who u…

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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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The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages

The Dravidian languages of south India, spoken by approximately 222 million speakers across South Asia, form one of the largest language families in the world. First recognized as a distinct group in the …

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Rachel Skokowski
The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their work.

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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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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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