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Porn and Tacos
Often brutally honest, Porn and Tacos is a witty, funny, and somewhat angry look at today's society. You might not agree with every message but hopefully it will make you think, and maybe laugh.
Babel No More
A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review). In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day pol...
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The Last Lingua Franca
In this provocative and persuasive new book, Nicholas Ostler challenges our assumption that English will continue to dominate as the global lingua franca. Drawing on his encyclopaedic knowledge of world languages and their history, Ostler reveals that just as past great languages like Latin and Sanskrit have died out, so English will follow. The influence of English now is hard to exaggerate - it is the world's preferred medium for business, science and entertainment, and is claimed to be a basic educational tool like mathematics or computing. So is it here to stay? For the last four centuries, the dominant world power has been English-speaking, but the global balance of power is shifting. A...
The Babel Message
'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg.' Simon Garfield A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point. Keith Kahn-Harris is a man obsessed with something seemingly trivial - the warning message found inside Kinder Surprise eggs: WARNING, read and keep: Toy not suitable for children under 3 years. Small parts might be swallowed or inhaled. On a tiny sheet of paper, this message is translated into dozens of languages - the world boiled down to a mult...
Beyond Babel
Examines how black intermediaries in colonial Spanish America influenced written portrayals of virtuous and beautiful blackness.
The Crimson Conspiracy
212 AD. Antioch, a jewel of the Roman East, shimmers with a thousand cultures, its marketplace vibrant with silks, spices, and the pungent aroma of murex dye. But a shadow lurks: a cheap, impossibly vivid purple floods the stalls, threatening the fortunes of established merchants like Seraphina Valeria, whose family has guarded the secrets of Tyrian purple for generations. This new dye isn’t just competition; it’s an unsettling echo of her family’s lost formula, a formula she believed vanished with her mother years ago. Driven by desperation, Seraphina plunges into Antioch’s labyrinthine alleys, a world of whispers and shadows. Her path collides with Nicholas Fox, a cynical Roman inv...
Over the River and Through the Wood
Offers readers a view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Complemented by period illustrations, this collection includes work by poets from all geographical regions, as well as rarely seen poems by immigrant and ethnic writers and by children themselves.
Chora 1
Volume I in the new series Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture explores fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture and examines the potential of architecture.
