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The culmination of more than sixty years of observing and collecting superstitions, customs, cures, riddles, games, stories, songs, and beliefs Pau...

En articulant les questions de variation, de plurilinguisme, d''evaluation et d''authenticite, cet ouvrage nourrit des debats actuels en francais l...

At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss,...

Poor, poor, hard-luck Herbert Sarkar: born into a fancy Calcutta family but cursed from birth (his philandering movie director father is killed in ...

This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.When Elizabeth Cady Stanton penned the Declaration of Sent...

In todays diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought an...

The Syriac medical tradition constitutes an important bridge traversing the imposing historical gap between the late Hellenic and early Islamic per...

This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money. According to...

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in...

Viewing current developments in materials development through the eyes of developers, users and researchers from all over the world, this book appl...

The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant non...