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Rodrigo Amado (geb. 1964)

This Is Our Language Quartet

Das ist Musik von vier starken Einzelspielern mit Raum für eruptive Soloparts, aber immer zusammengehalten von intensiver Kommunikation und schönen, verwobenen Melodien. Das zweite Album des Quartetts, A …

Julie L. Reed

Land, Language, and Women

Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and reservation schools established by the US government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Nati…

Understanding Science with Large Language Models?

How are large language models (LLMs) changing research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS)? The contributors to this volume show how these tools open new possibilities for interpre…

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai

Surrender to God Across Languages

How did languages relate to one another and to intellectual agendas in a highly multilingual milieu like premodern India?Surrender to God Across Languages explores this question through the intellectual h…

Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages

This handbook offers the most appropriate and up-to-date answers pertaining to Ryukyuan language structures and use, and the ways in which these languages relate to Ryukyuan society and history. Each of t…

Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn

An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Simon Rattle - Musik im 20.Jahrhundert

Felicity Palmer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Amanda Roocroft, Peter Donohoe, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Wayne Marshall, Jeanne Loriod, Rex Lawson, Willard White, Lydia Ariken, Gidon Kremer, London Sinfonietta Voic…

Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn

An Historical and Descriptive Account of China

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Andrii Portnov

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian Harvard Miracle

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle" is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak, the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian R…

Andrii Portnov

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian Harvard Miracle

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle" is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak-a prominent and controversial historians o…

Teaching Classics Worldwide

"Designed for instructors in schools and universities, as well as stakeholders and policy-makers in education everywhere, this book is a systematic guide to contemporary school teaching of classical …

Hillary Taylor

Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England

Hillary Taylor investigates the relationship between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750. Drawing on a large array of sources, Taylor considers the limits that class po…

Building and Consoling a Nation

Newly-translated works from modern Yiddish historians that seeks to expand the scholarship about eastern European Jewry.In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the…

Building and Consoling a Nation

In the early twentieth century, when the dream of Jewish cultural nationalism in the Diaspora was growing among champions for Yiddish, its leading intellectuals included the "Yiddish historians"…

Miniatures One + Two

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…

Intertextuality in Pliny's Epistles

Essential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality, in the generic enrichment of Latin epistolography and in the literary and cul…

A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages

Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near EastFilled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Easte…

Ian Rapley

Green Star Japan

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities offered by the proposed language known as Esperanto. Created in the nineteenth century …