'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors' Sunday Times'Enjoyable .
An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors.
In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin?
Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century.
Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament features today's top New Testament scholars and brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume.
A new edition of one of the world's most important and influential booksThe Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632.
Vorwort – Nina-Kristin Meister & Markus Steinbach: Barrierefreie Publikationen – Beiträge aus Forschung und Anwendung - Clare Patterson, Umesh Patil, Caterina Ventura, Maria Lialiou, Petra B.
Es grato presentar a los lectores el segundo volumen del libro titulado Lengua y sociedad: Un analisis critico de ensayos de Ingenierias, Biomedicas y Sociales, el cual tiene como principal objetivo compartir diversos ensayos que fueron temas de investigacion dentro de la universidad, fomentando asi un pensamiento critico en futuros profesionales en etapa de formacion, quienes aprendieron a redactar ensayos, textos que gozan de popularidad en diferentes ambitos del mundo academico.
The strange Book of Revelation, written in about 95 AD, opens up a world in which Christian people were under threat from the Roman Empire; some were suffering for their faith.
Sumai uiai o Pensar bonito es un canasto de palabras y de prácticas elaborado a partir de los saberes y de las miradas de autores ik ʉ , kággaba, ika, wayuu, n ɨ pode, okaina-m ɨ n ɨ ka, embera katío, inga, y de investigadores colaboradores.
Following an extraordinary debut17th place in the 1911 Boston MarathonPenobscot Indian Andrew Sockalexis returned to run a spectacular Boston Marathon on a muddy, rainy course on April 19, 1912.
"e;An inspirational and helpful resource for parents to help them learn how to foster early communication with their children through baby sign language"e; (Sabrina Freidenfelds, MPH, IBCLC, founder of Then Comes Baby).
Communication in Legal Advocacy integrates work in legal theory, communication theory, social science research, and strategic planning to provide a comprehensive anaysis of the communication processes in trials.
A panoramic explanation of "e;civic tourism"e; and the shaping of a national identityAt the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's new study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism.
This book addresses questions that have concerned rhetoricians, literary theorists, and philosophers since the time of the pre-Socratics and the Sophists: How do people come to believe and to act on the basis of communicative experiences?
Compelling perspectives on the Gospel of John from a premiere scholar of the subjectThis multidimensional volume from the leading American scholar of Johannine studies brings together D.
A look into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of todayIn this engrossing study of tales of mental illness, Carol Berkenkotter examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession.
Explore the interwoven lives of King Herod and Mary, Mother of Jesus as New York Times bestselling author Kathie Lee Gifford brings these biblical figures into a new light.
Este es un trabajo de carácter teórico sobre la ejemplificación gramatical como objeto de estudio lingüístico, principalmente –pero no exclusivamente– desde una perspectiva historiográfica.
What do the whole kit and caboodle, the whole shebang, the whole megillah, the whole enchilada, the whole nine yards, the whole box and dice, and the full Monty have in common?
The Reformed tradition of worship in England has given the English-speaking world the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, and the hymns of Isaac Watts.