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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   24 March 2024   |   comments: 0
Babel No More The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners [Audiobook]
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English | June 03, 2013 | ASIN: B00CWELN3A | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 3m | 246 MB
Author: Michael Erard | Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld
A "fascinating" (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is "part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation...an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time" (The New York Times Book Review).
We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy? In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages; Emil Krebs, a pugnacious German diplomat, who spoke sixty-eight languages; and Lomb Kat, a Hungarian who taught herself Russian by reading Russian romance novels.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   13 March 2024   |   comments: 0
Imperial Babel Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century
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English | ISBN: 0823263614 | 2014 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1070 KB
At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation's truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation's complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   13 March 2024   |   comments: 0
Before and after Babel Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
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English | December 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0197634664 | 358 pages | MOBI | 5.31 Mb
"The Lord confused the language of all the earth," so the Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible's book of Genesis tells us to explain why the world's people communicate in countless languages while previously they all spoke only one. This book argues that the biblical confusion really happened in the ancient Near East, not in speech, however, but in writing. It examines the millennia-long history of writing in the region and shows a radical change from the third and second millennia to the first millennium BC.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   30 January 2024   |   comments: 0
Tower of Babel
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English | ISBN: 0890517150 | 2013 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 11 MB
The Tower of Babel: The Cultural History of Our Ancestors reveals our shared ancestry as never before! Many are familiar with the Biblical account of Babel, but after the dispersal, there was a void beyond Biblical history until empires like Rome and Greece arose. Now, discover the truth of these people groups and their civilizations that spread across the earth and trace their roots back to Babel as well as to the sons and grandsons of Noah.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   10 January 2024   |   comments: 0
The Babel Message A Love Letter to Language
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English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1785787373, 1785788957 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 9.2 MB
A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   02 January 2024   |   comments: 0
Babel Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy
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English | ISBN: 1506480675 | 2023 | 325 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   29 December 2023   |   comments: 0
Beyond Babel Religion and Linguistic Pluralism
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031421264 | 349 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This volume is the first attempt to explicitly investigate how the multiplicity of religions and forms of spirituality interconnect with the multiplicities of language, such as digital lingo and the language of science. This book analyzes how religious and linguistic multiplicities become a pluralism, that is, how they enter into polyphonic relations, as well as how they interconnect, grow together, and why they often clash. The contributors are renown international scholars working in interreligious dialogue, philosophy and sociology of religion, history of religious arts, and the crossroads of religion and science.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   11 July 2023   |   comments: 0
Science After Babel
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English | ISBN: 1637120265 | 2023 | 298 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Polymath and raconteur David Berlinski is at it again, challenging the shibboleths of contemporary science with his inimitable blend of deep learning, close reasoning, and rapier wit. In Science After Babel he reflects on everything from Newton, Einstein, and Gödel to catastrophe theory, information theory, and the morass that is modern Darwinism. The scientific enterprise is unarguably impressive, but it shows no sign of reaching the empyrean heights it seemed to promise a century ago. "It resembles Bruegel's Tower of Babel," Berlinski says, "and if it suggests anything at all, it suggests that its original plans have somehow been lost." Science endures. Scientism, it would seem, is guttering out.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   09 July 2023   |   comments: 0
If Babel Had a Form Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth–Century Transpacific
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English | ISBN: 1531500188 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
"The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences," writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, "renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy." If Babel Had a Form asks not if his claim may be true, but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do. In twentieth-century intersections of China and Asia with the United States, translations did more than communicate meaning across politicized and racializing differences of language and nation. Transpacific translation breached the regulative protocols that created those very differences of human value and cultural meaning. The result, Tze-Yin Teo argues, saw translators cleaving to the sounds and shapes of poetry to imagine a translingual "likeness of form" but not of meaning or kind.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   03 March 2023   |   comments: 0
From Babel to Pentecost The Poetry of Pierre Emmanuel
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2012 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0773540288 | PDF | 1 MB
The most prolific and versatile French poet of the mid-twentieth century, Pierre Emmanuel's oeuvre spans five decades and an astonishing array of forms, from epics and love sonnets to patriotic works and prayers. The first full-length study of his works in English, From Babel to Pentecost brings Emmanuel's works to a new generation and a new readership. Mary Anne O'Neil's meticulous study of Emmanuel's complete works traces the poet's development as a thinker and artist while surveying both French and English scholarship on Emmanuel from the 1940s to the present. Employing close readings of poems as well as intertextual and psychoanalytic approaches, O'Neil draws connections between Emmanuel's influences, vocabulary, imagery, and meters, while translations allow English-language readers to engage directly with the texts. O'Neil's insightful commentary sheds light on the poet's relationship to movements in European poetry, to poets of Classical Greece, the Latin Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, and to sacred Hebrew, Hindu, and Buddhist verse. Keenly attuned to the changing world around him, Pierre Emmanuel exemplifies a poet's power to clarify the human condition, to move, and to teach. From Babel to Pentecost enables readers to rediscover the enduring richness and relevance of his work.

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