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Jeremy Withers

Birding English

What do words like unkindness , haggard , asparagus , jizz , and the singular they have to do with birds? Quite a lot, actually. From Old English roots and Shakespearean idioms to Victorian slang and mode…

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 …

Anonymous

Testamenta Eboracensia

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…

Anonymous

Testamenta Eboracensia

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…

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun

Language in Economic Life

**This engaging book charts why and how humans have always benefitted from knowing and using languages.**Nowadays, multilingualism is known to be an economic resource that can benefit individuals, organis…

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun

Language in Economic Life

**This engaging book charts why and how humans have always benefitted from knowing and using languages.**Nowadays, multilingualism is known to be an economic resource that can benefit individuals, organis…

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…

Language Matters in Namibia

Language Matters in Namibiainvestigates the diversity of Namibia's ethnolinguistic communities and cultures, considering how languages intersect with questions of nationhood, memory, identity, and decolon…

Amy Azzarito

Secret Language of Victorian Jewelry

Discover the forgotten Victorian meanings behind the gems, jewels, and symbols in our everyday jewelry with this entrancing guide to more than sixty classic motifs.Hearts, butterflies, and buckles are the…

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

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.How did languages relate to one another and to intellectual agendas in a highly multilingual milieu like premodern India?Surrend…

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…

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…

Steven H Jaffe

Four-Letter Nation

A fascinating history of American profanity that traces how taboo language has shaped US politics, religion, and pop culture, and how it has evolved into an expression of power and rebellion.For four hund…

John Davie

Greek To Us

John Davie, co-author of Et Tu, Brute? turns his attention to Ancient Greece. With a foreword by Harry Mount.Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an act…

Ward Farnsworth, Sarah van der Pas

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…

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 …

Modest Mussorgskij

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)