Language History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 7

Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

"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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Women Re-Creating Classics

"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discuss…

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 2

"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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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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Charles Taylor
Cosmic Connections

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosm…

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Keith Warren Lloyd
The War Correspondents

The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII's European TheaterErnie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite…

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Sara Cassidy,
Star Sailor, the Story of Words

Humans need words to communicate, whether they are spoken, written, signed or even sung. But what exactly is a word? And why does the way we use words continue to change?The English language has morphed, …

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Mary Beth Norton
I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer

"In the late seventeenth century, the bookseller John Dunton began soliciting anonymous questions for a new broadsheet periodical, The Athenian Mercury, that he hoped would provide entertainment and …

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Herodotus,
Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Herodotus' Histories are the primary source for the conflict between Greece and the enormous Persian Empire in the fifth century BC. Book VII begins after the defeat of the first Persian invasion by Athen…

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Douglass K Daniel
Kill-Do Not Release

"Fighter-Writer" reports from major battles in the Pacific highlight what America's Marines endured in World War IIDouglass K. Daniel presents a fascinating trove of previously classified materi…

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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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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…

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Cicero,
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. de Lege Agraria

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, a…

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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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Women Creating Classics

"From Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles (2012) to Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships (2019), there has been a huge rise in women's literary receptions of classics in recent years. This first volume in…

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Peter Richardson
Brand New Beat

How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism.Rolling Stone 's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins …

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Ben Rhodes
All We Say

What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Timesbestselling a…

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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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Jonina Abron-Ervin
Driven by the Movement

A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordina…

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Ulrich Marzolph
The Arabic Fable

This is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. The introduction presents a detailed effort to define the Arabic fable and a condensed …

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