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A comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany. In contrast to fields like anthropology, the history of linguistics has received remarkably little attention outside of its own discipline despite the undeniable impact language study has had on the modern period. In Babel's Shadow situates German language scholarship in relation to European nationalism, nineteenth-century notions of race and ethnicity, the methodologies of humanistic inquiry, and debates over the interpretation of scripture. Author Tuska Benes investigates how the German nation came to be defined as a linguistic community and argues that the "linguistic turn" in today's social sciences ...
Thad, a college professor who moonlights as a writer of pop thrillers under the pseudonym George Stark, finally writes a serious novel, and decides to stop writing shockers. But George Stark has come to life and doesn't want to die. Thad is forced to battle his own creation for the control of the mind which both must share.
The new world – a space adventure Ever since man first stood up and walked his desire to travel and explore has intensified. When it was discovered that the world was round and not flat he built ships to sail across the oceans just to see what he could find. For centuries man has looked up into the night’s sky dreaming about far away galaxies and he built machines to help him peer into outer space. With space distance measured in light years his dream of ever being able to visit those twinkling stars remained just a dream. As the effect of global warming increased during the 21st Century the desire to find another hospitable planet increased. The biggest stumbling block was, ‘how can man fly faster than the speed of light’. A British scientist Dr. Stephen Richards thought that he had the answer.
A Great Novelist, A Learned And Wise Critic, And A Charming Short-Story Writer Can These Three Reside In A Single Person? Yes, But, Of Course, In A Very Few, And E.M. Forster Is Certainly One Of Those Very Few, And That He Is Par Excellence. Any Knowledge Of Modern English Novel Without Even An Acquaintance With Forster Is Absurdly Incomplete. All Of Forster S Six Novels, Perhaps Barring Only Maurice, Have Been And Are Being Printed And Re-Printed In Hundreds Of Thousands Of Copies, And All The Six But Perhaps The Longest Journey Have Been Filmed By Worthy Directors, Such As Lean And Merchant, And The Films Have Received And Are Receiving High And Spontaneous Acclamations. As Said, Forster I...
THE NAME SAYS IT ALL...part 1 of the LAW SUIT TRILOGY: it is my homage to my favorite classic industrial bands: MINISTRY, MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT, PIGFACE, BILE, KMFDM, SKINNY PUPPY, AND EVEN NINE INCH NAILS AND OOZE...tis literally my favorite songs done into a 100 page graphic novel...IF YOU ARE A FAN OF THESE BANDS YOU WILL WANT TO EITHER OWN THIS BOOK...if you are in those bands...YOU WILL EITHER LOVE IT OR SEND US A CEASE AND DESIST LETTER!