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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
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"Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing, Tammet goes back in time to London to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood; in Iceland, he learns why the name Bl?r became a court case; in Canada, he meets one of the world's most accomplished lip readers. He chats with chatbots; contrives an "e"-less essay on lipograms; studies the grammar of the telephone; contemplates the significance of disappearing dialects; and corresponds with native...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much"--
"Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of our lexicon, an integral part of being human. In fact, our ability to curse comes from a different part of the brain than other parts of speech--the urgency with which we say "f&*k!"...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (161 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
American Sign Language (ASL) is an easy-to-learn, step-by-step approach to learning sign language, complete with drills and practice exercises to increase signing ability and understanding. It’s the perfect guide to the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations. Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly,...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (22 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (19 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (19 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Sign it and say it! Excellent for every American Sign Language (ASL) student as well as teachers, parents and professionals learning ASL to be able to communicate clearly, naturally and start signing with the deaf community and people with hearing loss. Students will learn basic to advanced communication skills, vocabulary, finger spelling, the alphabet the fundamentals of communicating through sign in a variety of everyday situations, proper ASL...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 x 20 cm
Description
"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world....
16) Chasing Voices
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
CHASING VOICES tells the extraordinary life story of controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington. Beginning in 1907, Harrington crisscrossed the United States frantically searching and documenting dying Native American languages. For the next 50 years, this became his obsession. Harrington amassed over a million pages of notes on over 150 different tribal languages. Some of these languages were considered dead until his notes were discovered....
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 238 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomes From the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford's first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic role in shaping the world around us-and still do...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Wang Zhao was a Chinese monk who, in the first spring of the twentieth century, delivered a document that would change the Chinese-speaking world forever. He had been hiding out in Japan for the past two years, carrying a hefty bounty on his head. His desire to go home eclipsed his fear of capture.
#2 The Chinese language seemed to be a major impediment to China's...
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Esta segunda edición ha sido escrita con el objetivo de dotar a los estudiantes de las herramientas necesarias para la redacción de textos en contextos académicos.
Todo estudiante universitario necesita procesar gran cantidad de información. Por ello, el empleo de la lectura y la escritura sigue siendo fundamental.
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"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
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