History And Literacy – alle Bücher, CDs und DVDs, Seite 3

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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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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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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Steven H Jaffe
Four-Letter Nation

The untold story of how America really talks, for readers of Mary Roach and Bill Bryson---and anyone who's ever wondered about the power of "bad" words.For 400 years, Americans have been told to…

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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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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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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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Franklin R Jones Jr
Learn Black American Sign Language

Discover the fascinating history and current use of Black American Sign Language, then bring it to life with your hands following photo-illustrated instruction.Deaf history has been told primarily from a …

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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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Applied Theatre: Voice

Applied Theatre: Voice is a unique exploration of the conceptual and practical understandings of voice in relation to applied theatre.Voice is fundamental to much practice that takes place in applied and …

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Michael M Grynbaum
Empire of the Elite

From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue , Vanity Fair , The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through t…

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Melissa Adler
Peculiar Satisfaction

How Thomas Jefferson's vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it -- and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Inde…

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David Krolikoski
Lyrical Translation

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation. As the use of Korean became increasingly restricted during the Japanese occupation, tra…

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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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Megan C Reynolds
Like

"A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language"--

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Teresa Zackodnik
Great Thinkers and Doers

A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.In Great Thinkers and Doers, Teresa Zackodnik looks at the vital--and largely overlooked--role of Black women re…

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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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H L Mencken
The American Language

Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th cen…

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Picturing Peace

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores …

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Susan Mulcahy, Frank Digiacomo
Paper of Wreckage

A "lively and sprawling" (The New York Times ) oral history of the New York Post and the legendary tabloid's cultural impact from the 1970s to today as recounted by the men and women who witness…

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