The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russi
How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resistthis emotional management through cultural production Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referen
"Like any other life-sustaining resource," says Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, "language can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded, and filled with artificial stimulants." Toda
Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway.In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingway’s Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion?for a city, a woman, and a time. No other city in an
This book is a study of a Christian theology without words, focussing on theology in the Deaf Community. Deaf people's first and preferred method of communication is not English or any other spoken la
Friends, family, love, God, death, faith.These, and others, are deceptively simple words that we use all the time. Do we know what we mean when we use these important words? Do we know what other peop
This book argues that literary features and ritual dynamics within the book of Leviticus enlighten each other. The first two chapters establish that one may read Leviticus as a coherent literary work
The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the grand Classicist façade, the delightful horror of the sculptures in the Tribunal, and the magnificence of the huge Citizens’ Hall. In the period of its construction, many artists and writers tried to capture the overwhelming impact of the building by, among other comparisons, relating it to the ancient Wonders of the World and by stressing its splendour, riches, and impressive scale. In doing so, they constructed the Town Hall as the ultimate wonder, thus offering a silent, but very powerful testimony to the power and position of the City of Amsterdam and its rulers as equals of the other European regimes.To fully understand these mechanisms of power, this book relates the Town Hall to other, impressive buildings of the same period―the palace of the Louvre, Saint Peter’s Basilica, and Banqueting House―and th
How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resistthis emotional management through cultural production Today, even young kids talk to each other across social media by referen
The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken from other languages. These range from Latin, Greek, Scandinavian, Celtic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russi
"Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life, and do so in various ways. Building on recent currents of thinking in visual semiotics and the philosophy of language, a vibrant in
A collection of essays, speeches, interviews, articles, and other previously inaccessible sources chronicles the political activism of Jane Fonda from 1970 through 2005, in a volume that encompasses t
Modern American life is filled with the language of mortgages, credit cards, investing, inheritances, pensions, and all the other financial situations we find ourselves in every day. A basic understan
Riley (English and American studies, U. of East Anglia) investigates why the requirement to be something-or-other should be so hard to satisfy in a manner that is convincing to its subject. She conclu
Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles’s A Touch of Evil: “What does it matter what you say about other people?” The author ponders the question: What does it matter wha
