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Native tongue volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 362 pages ; 21 cm.
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"In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has been repealed and men hold absolute power. The Earth's economy relies on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to become interstellar translators until they are sent to the Barren House to await death. But instead, these women are secretly creating a language of their own to reclaim their autonomy and make resistance possible for all."--Back cover.
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Did you know that there are nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world? This book introduces you to a wide variety of different languages to start you off on your language-learning journey. Find out where languages come from and where they are spoken. From Arabic to Zulu, Morse code to whale song, this book is packed with language facts and phrases to help you communicate all around the world. It includes: basic vocabulary and short dialogues...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Ferrara takes a profound look at how-- and how many times-- human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language around the world. Readers will examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts; study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions, and venture to the cutting edge as high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eyes. Ferrara chronicles a journey filled with past flashes of brilliance,...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Learn programming basics in this kid-friendly, easy-to-follow book. It covers computer languages, writing programs, bugs, and loops using real-world examples and fun illustrations. Online and offline activities also boost learning and skills."--
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (3 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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How do you make conversation with someone you have just met? When is communicating by email ill-advised? How do you say "no" without using that dreaded word? Regardless of age or occupation, conversation can be tricky. And like it or not, it's one of the most important things you do on a daily basis. Successful conversations help you advance professionally and make, maintain, and deepen relationships. Moreover, research shows that talking, when done...
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"Scratch is a fun, beginner-friendly programming environment popular in schools around the world. Its playful, intuitive interface uses colorful programming blocks and cartoon sprites to make real programming more approachable. Learn to Program with Scratch shows just how much you can do with Scratch and teaches you essential, universal programming concepts along the way. In Learn to Program with Scratch, author Majed Marji takes you on a tour through...
14) One & everything
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
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Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages--and the imperative to preserve them. Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story ever. It called itself the One and started to consume every other...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Language is always changing-- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way, and it often seems as if the language is deteriorating before our eyes. McWhorter shows how English has always been in motion and continues to evolve today. These shifts are a natural process common to all languages, and McWhorter shows that our lives are all the richer...
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Pub. Date
2006
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1 v. (unpaged.) ; col. ill. : 26 cm.
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Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose. Words. Selig collects them, ones that stir his heart (Mama!) and ones that make him laugh (giggle). But what to do with so many luscious words? After helping a poet find the perfect words for his poem (lozenge, lemon, and licorice), he figures it out: His purpose is to spread the word to others. And so he begins to sprinkle,...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1523
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches...
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