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Pre-Owned Culture Language and Society (Hardcover) 080533341X 9780805333411

From the rear cover: Goodenough sees the content of self and the content of culture as the fundamental problem of the behavioral and social sciences. This revised version of his earlier paper on this subject includes treatment of pidgin and creole... more

Beihefte Zum Language And Culture Atlas Of Ashkenazic Jewry: Eydes (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies): The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (Hardcover)

Gegenstand der Beiträge ist der Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry ein retrospektives Tonarchiv zum modernen europäischen Jiddisch mit ca. 5000 Stunden gesprochener Sprache. Angeregt wurde die Publikation durch die Aufbereitung der... more

Russian Language and Society: Language on Display: Writers Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardcover)

Post-Soviet Russia was a period of linguistic liberalisation instability and change with varied attempts to regulate and legislate language usage a time when the language question permeated all spheres of social cultural and political life. Key topics... more

Language Culture and Teaching Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society: Learning From and With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Familie (Paperback)

Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families schooling and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize... more

Language Discourse Society Fictions of the City: Class Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris (Hardcover)

Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L Assommoir to Nil By Mouth this book shows that... more

War Culture and Society 1750-1850: The Language Question Under Napoleon (Paperback)

This book offers a new perspective on the cultural politics of the Napoleonic Empire by exploring the issue of language within four pivotal institutions - the school the army the courtroom and the church. Based on wide-ranging research in archival and... more

Language Culture and Teaching Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society: Learning From and With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Familie (Hardcover)

Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families schooling and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize... more

Studies in the Social and Cultural Found Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village Book 6 (Paperback)

As children are learning to become competent members of their society so also are they learning to become competent speakers of their language. In other words socialisation and language acquisition take place at the same time in a child s experience.... more

Studies in Language Gender Sex Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures Contexts Constraints (Paperback)

From television shows to the manosphere and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. What does it mean to be a man in contemporary society? How is masculinity constituted in... more

Grammar and Dictionary of the Bobangi Language As Spoken Over a Part of the Upper Congo West Central Africa : Comp. and Prepared for the Baptist Missionary Society s Mission in the Congo Independent State (Paperback)

This book is an invaluable resource for linguists anthropologists and historians interested in the cultures and languages of Central Africa. Whitehead presents a comprehensive grammar and dictionary of the Bobangi language one of the most widely spoken... more

Language Discourse Society: The Destructive Element (Paperback)

In the destructive element immerse. These words from Joseph Conrad s Stein in Lord Jim cast a shadow over twentieth-century literature. At the same time Freud s bleak prognosis of culture s discontents left a psychoanalysis with a legacy that found one... more

Identity Agency and the Acquisition of Professional Language and Culture (Hardcover)

With globalization and the ever-increasing migration of professionals issues related to learning an additional language and culture in professional contexts are prominent in many contemporary societies. Drawing upon data from an extensive research... more

The Knowledge Economy Language and Culture (Hardcover)

Together with changes in the nature of modernity globalisation is restructuring society. The sovereignty of the nation-state is undermined the structuring of identity is realigned and a sense of individualism (which involves a freedom of choice re... more

Kingdom of Mankon. Aspects of History Language Culture Flora and Fauna (Paperback)

This book is a descriptive and documentary analysis of the Mankon I-language and E-language mirrored through aspects of history geography flora and fauna. These aspects manifest in the taxonomic nomenclatures attributed to referents in society. Because... more

Freedom of thought and of speech : a lecture before the Society of Ethical Culture of Chicago December 6 1891 / by William Mackintire Salter (1892) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1892 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Protest Culture & Society: Transformations and Crises: The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden 1956-1980 (Hardcover)

The Left in the 1960s and 1970s has a powerful almost mythical place in the history of the 20th century. It was during these decades that the radical Left managed to renew the language of socialism as an alternative to communism and liberalism alike... more

The key to culture; customs manners and niceties of society (1921) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1921 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

A man s value to society; studies in self culture and character [by] Newell Dwight Hillis (1904) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1904 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Academic culture : an oration delivered before the Alleghany and Philo-Franklin Literary Societies of Alleghany College Meadville Pa. July 1 1851 / by Rufus P. Stebbins (1851) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1851 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

A man s value to society; studies in self-culture and character [by] Newell Dwight Hillis (1900) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1900 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Our deportment or The manners conduct and dress of the most refined society including forms for letters invitations etc. etc. : also valuable suggestions on some culture and training / compiled

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1883 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Art society and accomplishments; a treasury of artistic homes social life and culture (1891) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1891 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

A man s value to society : studies in self culture and character (1899) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1899 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Our deportment : or The manners conduct and dress of the most refined society ; including forms for letters invitations etc. etc. Also valuable suggestions on home culture and training /

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1881 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

An account of the culture of carrots and their great use in feeding and fattening cattle. By Robert Billing. Pub. by desire of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce at

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1765 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

American Society of Missiology: Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture (Revised Expanded) (Paperback)

Since its original publication Translating the Message has transformed common perceptions of mission showing how the process of translation has made Christianity a preserver rather than a destroyer of indigenous languages and cultures. This thoroughly... more

Year book of the Society for Ethical Culture of New York City. Volume 1904-05 (1905) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: 1904-05 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1905 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

The diseases regeneration & culture of the potato: containing and examination of the Royal Agricultural Society s prize essays on the blight ;a reply to Dr.Lindley on the wearing out the plants etc

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1847 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Annual report of the Workingman s School / conducted under the auspices of the United Relief Works of the Society for Ethical Culture. Volume 1884/85 (1885) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: 1884/85 Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1885 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

Pre-Owned The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts 1713-1861 (Paperback) 0870238264 9780870238260

9780870238260. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Pbk ed. Language: English. Pages: 472. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 472 p. Reprint of the Cambridge UP edition of 1989. Now on acid-free paper at a respectable price. Annotation... more

As others see us or The rules and customs of refined homes and polite society ... : also complete self instruction in physical culture for both ladies and gentlemen / introduction by Rose Hartwick

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1896 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Here s hoping the optimism of experience. A lay sermon by William Kent delivered before the Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago Sunday March 11th 1906 (1906) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1906 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index... more

Pre-Owned Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis Hardcover

9780804708685. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 384. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 384 p. These essays three of them previously unpublished explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower... more

Pre-Owned Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Paperback 9780226799728) by Norman J W Thrower

9780226799728. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2nd ed. Language: English. Pages: 340. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 340 p. Contains: Illustrations. This work first published as Maps and Man provides a concise introduction to the... more

Pre-Owned Germany 1914-1933: Politics Society and Culture (Paperback 9781405801362) by Matthew Stibbe

9781405801362. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 288 p. Contains: Tables black & white Maps. Germany 1914-1933: Politics Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at... more

Pre-Owned The Bible In/And Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter (Paperback) 1589834933 9781589834934

9781589834934. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 220. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 220 p. Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies. This collection of essays explores a range of media and the way the... more

Studies in Middle Eastern History Language and Change in the Arab Middle East: The Evolution of Modern Political Discourse (Hardcover)

Middle Eastern society experienced sudden and profound change in the 19th century under the impact of European expansion and influence. But as Western ideas about politics technology and culture began to infiltrate Arab society the old language proved... more

A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology: Scottish Life and Society Volume 12: Religion (Hardcover)

Its overall aim is to examine the interlocking strands of history language and traditional culture within an international context and their contribution to the making of a national identity. Each volume is a detailed examination of a societal topic... more