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Adventure of English--500 A.D. to 2000 A.D American sign language Art of communicating Behold humanity! a sociological perspective Dual-language book Great courses (Compact disc) Great courses (DVD) Power of the word Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language The genesis of ShannaraGenesis, Domo
Contents: Awkward groove -- One below -- Wanderer (ft. Tay Walker) -- Questions (ft. Dash and Kendra Foster) -- My own (ft. Jmsn) -- Go (gas) (ft. Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J and Tyler, The Creator) -- Coming back (ft. Mac Miller) -- Faded in the moment (ft. Cam O'Bi) -- Dapper (ft. Anderson Paak) -- Brotha -- All night (ft. King Chip) -- Lost and found.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP GENRendsburg, Gary.
Summary: Explores the book of Genesis showing us how we might read, hear, think about--and feel--its words as an ancient Hebrew would have, allowing us to gain a new appreciation of one of the most remarkable literary compositions from the ancient world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 221 REN Part 1Call number: CD 221 REN Part 2
Conty, Patrick.
Contents: The Gotland labyrinth -- The enigma -- The labyrinth is not a maze -- The trace of the ritual -- The equation and its solution -- The bound universe and the eternal return -- The woven myth -- The Malekula ritual and the story of Aneas -- The living and the dead -- A puzzle of myths -- The Malekula Nahals -- The temple as a knot -- About knots -- The origin of language in Dogon myth -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions International 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Why do girls demonstrate greater reading and writing ability than boys? Is the female brain hardwired for faster verbal development? Should men let women do the talking? This program studies language differences between the sexes and explores the possibility that many communication skills are gender-specific. Following two teams of well-educated adults as they undergo a crash course in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Melvyn Bragg begins the story of English in Holland, finding ancestral echoes in the Frisian dialect. What follows is a chapter on survival as the English language weathers Viking and Norman invasions, vying with and eventually absorbing rival tongues. Lively settings such as village pubs and markets bring home the lasting influence of Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and Old French. The connection...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this program, John McWhorter, author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language; Lyle Campbell, of the University of Utah; Brian Joseph, of The Ohio State University; and population geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza examine factors that contributed to the diversification and spread of languages, including early migration, the introduction of agriculture, and genes. Language...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: "Featuring the original Russian on the left-hand page and new English translations on the right-hand side, contents include "The Fugitive" by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, "The Present" by Leonid Andreev, "Trataton" by Dimitry Mamin-Sibiryak, "Life Granted" by Aleksandr Grin, and "Icarus" by Stepan Skitalets, plus stories by Vasily Grossman, Aleksandr Kuprin, and others. No further apparatus or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 FIC GREBragg, Melvyn
Contents: The common tongue -- The great escape -- Conquest -- Holding on -- The speech of kings -- Chaucer -- God's english -- English and the language of the state -- William Tyndale's bible -- A renaissance of words -- Preparing the ground -- Shakespeare's english -- "My America" -- Wild west words -- Sold down the river -- Mastering the language -- The proper way to talk -- Steam, streets and slang...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.9 BRASummary: Amok, "boomerang," "bungalow," "bangle," "dumdum," "plonk," "assassin"-these are some of the many words that have entered English by way of colonial expansion. This program explores how the British Empire in its heyday exported its language around the globe and how different forms of speech and vocabulary, as well as different attitudes to English, developed out of that colonial expansion. Rich...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world's languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed. In this program, Noam Chomsky; Esperantist Thomas Eccard; endangered languages researcher Peter Ladefoged, who has since passed away; and others provide insights into the language life cycle. Topics include constructed...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Duncan McCue profiles one native community's struggle to preserve their indigenous language - and the hard, often unheralded, work of individuals recognized as language keepers. Arvid Charlie is among the last generation raised speaking Hul'qumi'num, the Coast Salish language spoken by the Cowichan people in BC. Like most of the 88 aboriginal languages in Canada, Hul'qumi'num is teetering on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Pinker, Steven
Summary: "In Words and Rules, Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively single phenomenon and examining it from every angle. The phenomenon - regular and irregular verbs - connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics; the attempts to simulate language using computer...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 415.21 PINSummary: What precisely is language, and how did humans acquire it? In an effort to answer those essential questions, this program journeys back to prehistoric times in search of language's origin. But this is not a passive discussion, as Noam Chomsky; Brown University's Philip Lieberman; Johanna Nichols, of U.C. Berkeley; Stanford University's Merritt Ruhlen; professor of anthropology Richard Klein;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Language is a social construct. It unites the individuals of a given community through a code that is understood by those who use it, ranging from street slang to the prescribed usage of grammar by an elite. This program examines language in a historical context and as a political tool. Since the advent of the printing press and, most recently, the Internet, English has become the universal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Lerer, Seth
Summary: Presents lectures on the history of the English language.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 420 LER PART ICall number: CD 420 LER PART III
Summary: This program travels the globe as it surveys a large portion of the world's languages-25 percent of which are spoken by a mere 0.1 percent of the Earth's population. Moving from Africa to Oceania and up to Asia and then west to Europe and across the ocean to the Americas, the program assesses how many languages are spoken in each region, the characteristics they share, and misconceptions about...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Brooks, Terry.
Summary: As humans and elves face annihilation from Void demons and other creatures, the last Knights of the Word, Logan Tom--who leaves Seattle--and Angel Perez--who encounters the Elves of Cintra--swear to protect innocent children; and Hawk, a human-shaped gypsy morph, along with Tessa, meets the King of the Silver River.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN BrooksCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO GS 2Summary: Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, based on his courses in Linguistics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 UNDJaffe, Adi
Summary: "Breaking free of outdated explanations and rigid "rules" for recovery, The Abstinence Myth offers a hopeful, research-based framework for transformation by an addiction expert and renowned TEDx speaker who overcame his own addiction and has guided hundreds of clients into lives of joy and purpose"--Back cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IGNTD Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86 JAFAnderson, Ian
Contents: The secret language of birds -- The little flower girl -- Montserrat -- Postcard day -- The water carrier -- Set-aside -- A better moon -- Sancttuary -- The jasmine corridor -- The habanero reel -- Panama freighter -- The secret language of birds, pt II -- Boris dancing -- Circular breathing -- The stormont shuffle.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fuel 2000 Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANDPinker, Steven
Summary: Steve Pinker discusses the idea that language is an instinct, as innate to us as flying is to geese. This book covers the biological origin, acquisition by children and the grammatical structure of human language.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Folio Society 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 PINPuchner, Martin
Summary: "Tracking an underground language from one family's obsession to the outcasts who spoke it in order to survive. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know)-vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves. This hybrid language was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 437.009 PUCSummary: This program features poets James Autry and Quincy Troupe, both of whom work with the oral tradition to lift poetry off the page and bring it into the community. James Autry, a businessman and publisher, writes poetry about the business world and the Southern culture of his youth. His work includes such poems as "Thoughts on Firing a Salesman. In this program, Autry reads his poetry at a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Claude-Pierre, Peggy.
Contents: 1. The beginning of Montreux -- 2. Confirmed negativity condition -- 3. Myths and misconceptions -- 4. The acute patient: held hostage by the "forever" intruder -- 5. Reversing the negative mind -- 6. The five stages of recovery -- 7. On love and healing: the challenges at home -- 8. Finding the help you need -- 9. The poetry of healing -- 10. A final message of hope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc. 1999