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Hardback. DARE readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam's housecat to Zydeco. Volume V is filled with words that reflect our origins, migrations, ethnicities, and neighborhoods. Whether we are talking about foods, games, clothing, family, animals, or any other aspect of life, our vocabulary reveals much about who we are. Num Pages: 1296 pages, 682 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; CFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674047358
ISBN
9780674047358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.13
€ 112.74

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053441
ISBN
9780674053441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.50

Hardback. Reflecting the liveliness of English as it is spoken on America's main streets and country roads, this second volume is a collection of vernacular Americanisms - regional metaphors and similes passed along within homes and communities. Num Pages: 1200 pages, 606 maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CBD; CFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 54. Weight in Grams: 2905.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
1200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674205123
ISBN
9780674205123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.13
€ 118.83

Hardback. Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes "lefse", what a counterman in a Buffalo deli means by a "kimmelweck" or a Hawaiian baker puts into a "malassada". This volume concerns the ever-changing world of American speech. Num Pages: 944 pages, 550 maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CBD; CFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2197.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
944
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674205192
ISBN
9780674205192
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.13
€ 119.63

Hardcover. Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites' theories of an "Indian mind" inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government's efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 330 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFF; HBJK; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674289932
ISBN
9780674289932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 44.33

Hardcover. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1967
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379176
ISBN
9780674379176
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.29

Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379275
ISBN
9780674379275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.36

Hardcover. Shirley Werner, On the History of the Commenta Bernensia and the Adnotationes super Lucanum, Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 32. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Department of the Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379442
ISBN
9780674379442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.30

Hardcover. The study of language acquisition has become a center of scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind. The result is a windfall of new information about language, about learning, and about children themselves. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674509313
ISBN
9780674509313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.85
€ 82.56

Paperback. Provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric. This work begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulation of "metarhetoric," or a theory of rhetoric, in the fifth and fourth centuries and then traces the development of that theory through the Greco-Roman period. Num Pages: 336 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000596
ISBN
9780691000596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 46.06

Paperback. An ethnography of contemporary Java. It analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. It exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the 'accidents' that precede the formulations of culture as such. Num Pages: 350 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FMN; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691000855
ISBN
9780691000855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.96

Paperback. Scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. This title covers a range of topics, from simultaneous translation to legal theory, from the language of exile to the language of new nations, and from the press to the cinema. Editor(s): Bermann, Sandra; Wood, Michael. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: CFP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691116099
ISBN
9780691116099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 41.40

Paperback. Analyzes writers and gurus, literary texts and religious movements, and the political uses of religion alongside the literary expressions of religious teachers, showing the cosmopolitan interconnections between the Indian subcontinent, the British Empire, and the American New Age. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; 1QDB; CFB; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118284
ISBN
9780691118284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.90

Hardback. Focuses on Rome's practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. This book shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. It is a contribution to the debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691123646
ISBN
9780691123646
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.32
€ 62.66

Hardback. Presents the author's vision of philosophy of language. Explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, this book investigates foundational concepts - such as truth, reference, and meaning - that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. Series: Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages, 4 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138664
ISBN
9780691138664
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 38.90

Hardback. Offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason. This work gives a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPQ; HPS; JHBT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140902
ISBN
9780691140902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.96

Paperback. Hobbes' extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. This book argues that it was Hobbes who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143255
ISBN
9780691143255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.92

Paperback. Series: Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy. Num Pages: 144 pages, 30 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156392
ISBN
9780691156392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.87

Paperback. The description for this book, Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal, will be forthcoming. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691621548
ISBN
9780691621548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.94

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691625324
ISBN
9780691625324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.92
€ 41.78

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