Language History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 8

Montreal Standard Time

Montreal Standard Time is drawn from Mavis Gallant's columns in The Montreal Standard during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on an extraordinary …

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

"Provides guidance for teachers on old and new perspectives on Cabeza de Vaca's works, including literary topoi, Chicano literature, postcolonial readings, queer readings, race, adaptations, law and …

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Jason Stanley
How Propaganda Works

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention.

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

Teach a conquistador's writings about his journeys in the AmericasIn 1527 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca journeyed from Spain to Florida with the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition---and ended up wanderi…

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D B Dowd
Reading Pictures

A history of illustration from the beginning of popular print to the rise of mass literacy and into today's age of digital mediaOf all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the w…

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Tony Gallagher,
The Times Sir

The perfect gift for anyone with a shrewd sense of humour.Decidedly absurd, and always entertaining, revel in the very best letters published in The Times.

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Writing from Invention to Decipherment

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select…

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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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Charles Delgadillo, Jason Stacy
Heartland Utopia

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equality, opportunity, and neighborly generosity. This antholo…

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Sarah Ciston, David M Berry, Anthony C Hay, Mark C Marino
Inventing Eliza

How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society's response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA's public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical a…

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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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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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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 3

"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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Harley Parker,
The Culture Box

In The Culture Box , Harley Parker applies Marshall McLuhan's medium theory to the museum, analyzes the museum as the site of many media, and specifies the ways in which designer-communicators can engage …

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The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine

This new book recovers a path-breaking venture in museology from the late 1960s that has largely gone unnoticed. In 1967, media theorist Marshall McLuhan and his collaborator Harley Parker, pioneer of mus…

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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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Yazan Al-Saadi,
Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches

Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination.Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more c…

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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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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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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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