Taming Babel. Language in the Making of Malaysia, Hardback - Rachel Leow

Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse t...

What's in a Name takes readers into the often-troubled heart of Malaysian politics and business over the last fifty years.Publisher: Whitefox Publi...

Reducere. There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150, 000 years ago...

A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Keith Kahn-HarrisNumbe...

By using different ways of describing the world of scientific endeavour, the author has produced a fascinating visually beautiful and highly entert...

Listening across millennia, a cultural historian explores the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical-and intriguing-as ...

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Reducere. In reading ALL IN: The Making of a PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, one begins to understand that the PA has chosen a vocation in which work will permeate all ...

The rollicking behind-the-scenes story of Sharpe's Rifles, one of British TV's most beloved shows, featuring a foreword by Sharpe author Bernard Co...

The rollicking behind-the-scenes story of Sharpe's Rifles, one of British TV's most beloved shows, featuring a foreword by Sharpe author Bernard Co...

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Reducere. Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Theresa (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) EnrightIllustration(s): 9 figures; 9 Illustrations, unspeci...

Reducere. In timp ce studiul de fata isi propune sa analizeze dezvoltarea intelectualului modern dintr-un punct de vedere predominant literar, se acorda si o...

Reducere. English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluent...

Reducere. Have you ever heard of the Blair Witch? This simple question captivated moviegoers in the summer of 1999. From the start, The Blair Witch Project w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean Hough DaveyWith: Anne O'HaganIn the 1960s, when women were neither accepted nor encouraged to enter the world of finan...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Reducere. What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the intentions of its framers at the Federal...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He ...

Reducere. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearAccording to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the ...

Reducere. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working cl...

Reducere. In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that ...

Publisher: BackPage Press LimitedAuthor(s): Graham HunterNumber of pages: 450Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 229 x 150 x 36Cover type: Paperback ...

Bulent Gokay examines Turkey's recent remarkable political and economic transformation within the context of broader regional and global change to ...

DescriptionWhat happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of drama...

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Reducere. The bestselling, definitive study of African Americans throughout American history, now with a new introduction by noted scholar V. P. Franklin In ...

Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of the different versions of C. L. R. James's landmark The Black Jacobins across ...

Publisher: Grolier Club of New YorkAuthor(s): Bryan A. GarnerNumber of pages: 302Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 199 x 243 x 30Cover type: Hardba...

DescriptionThis innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurou...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bang...

Reducere. In the Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part I: The Making of a Champion, by Adam J. Pollack is the most thorough and detailed book ever written about form...

Reducere. In the Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part I: The Making of a Champion, by Adam J. Pollack is the most thorough and detailed book ever written about form...

The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs f...