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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…

lieferbar ab 13.11.2025.

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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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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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J E Lendon
That Tyrant, Persuasion

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate propose…

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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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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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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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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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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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Handbook of Socialist Exhibition Cultures

Handbook of Socialist Exhibition Cultures takes a rare look into the world of international art exhibitions organized by socialist states between 1947-1989.The handbook examines the mechanisms, relationsh…

lieferbar ab 20.1.2026.

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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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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 …

lieferbar ab 30.10.2025.

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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…

lieferbar ab 5.2.2026.

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Joshua Hammer
The Mesopotamian Riddle

An "adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike" (The Washington Post ) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest wr…

lieferbar ab 10.3.2026.

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Jiani He
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Jirim League witnessed a linguistic struggle between Manchu, Mongol, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian powers. The Qing Empire envisioned a trilingual educational sy…

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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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Hyun-Ah Kim
Music, Rhetoric and Christian Hebraism in Early Modern Europe

This book presents the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the first German humanist Johannes Reuchlin's stu…

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Roy Christopher
The Grand Allusion

By tracing allusion use from its religious roots to internet memes, The Grand Allusion presents a new way to understand pop culture.The use of allusions represents an important way we employ our cultural …

lieferbar ab 17.3.2026.

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Alex Mullen, Anna Willi
Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West

This volume offers a detailed anatomy of the spread of Latin and local and regional language change across Britain, Gaul, the Germanies, and the Iberian Peninsula during the late Roman republic to the end…

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