Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition (Yildiz Yasemin)(Paperback)

Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition (Yildiz Yasemin)(Paperback)

Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned 'mother tongue' about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual constellation within one language (Theodor W. Adorno); producing

Tongues: Beyond the Upper Room (Hagin Kenneth E.)(Paperback)

Beyond the Human Condition (Griffith Jeremy)(Paperback)

Griffith's second book that gives a detailed account of the biology underpinning his explanation of the human condition. Charles Darwin connected humans with nature but there biology has been stalled, unable to explain the dilemma of the human condition. Griffith's answer defends and dignifies

Mother Tongue (Forde Patricia)(Paperback / softback)

The sequel to the award-winning post-apocalypic novel The Wordsmith. There's a new new leader of Ark and the battle to save language, art and music is far from

Mother Tongue - The Story of the English Language (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, this book covers curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn

PERFUME OF MEMORY (SCHOLASTIC)(Paperback)

Concocting special perfumes to keep the memory of her long-departed mother alive, Yasmin must keep her knowledge of scents hidden because only boys can study this art, until the Queen smells a perfume from an enemy that causes her to lose her memory, and only Yasmin can save

Through the Language Glass - Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages (Deutscher Guy)(Paperback / softback)

Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is -

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (Gordon Linda)(Paperback)

We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos--the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl--but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using

Teethmarks on My Tongue (Battersby Eileen)(Paperback / softback)

Helen Stockton DeFoe's world disintegrates after her mother is gunned down on the streets of Richmond. An unusual coming-of-age debut novel, narrated by a troubled teenage

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Bryson Bill)(Paperback)

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson

Free: The End of the Human Condition (Griffith Jeremy)(Paperback)

Griffith's first book that introduces the reader to the issue of the human condition and his biological explanation of it. It describes how the anger and selfishness felt by humans is the result of a conflict between two factions within ourselves -- the gene-based instinctive self struggling

Summer Queen - A loving mother. A betrayed wife. A queen beyond compare. (Chadwick Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

The epic first novel in a magnificent trilogy unveiling the fascinating and misunderstood young queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine - history's most powerful

Yasmin the Builder (Faruqi Saadia)(Paperback / softback)

Everyone seems to have a great idea for the makerspace project, everyone except for Yasmin! All the good ideas are taken. Luckily, recess solves everything! Inspiration strikes and Yasmin creates something that brings the whole class

An Analysis of Hannah Arendt's the Human Condition (Saeidnia Sahar Aurore)(Paperback)

Hannah Arendt's 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt's interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display

Yasmin the Scientist (Faruqi Saadia)(Paperback / softback)

Yasmin the Writer (Faruqi Saadia)(Paperback / softback)

Yasmin the Gardener (Faruqi Saadia)(Paperback / softback)

Yasmin the Recycler (Faruqi Saadia)(Paperback / softback)

Freedom - The End of the Human Condition (Griffith Mr Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Yasmin the Superhero (Faruqi Saadia)(Paperback / softback)

Superhero Yasmin! She's got the cape. She's got the mask. Now she just needs a villain to defeat! While she's looking for one, she meets lots of friends and neighbours who need her help, but no villains. Then Yasmin discovers that she might not need a villain to wield her super

Government of the Tongue (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance

Yasmin the Football Star (Faruqi Saadia)(Paperback / softback)

Deliverance of the Tongue (Olukoya D. K.)(Paperback)

God has given Man a lot of powers, and one of such powers is that of the tongue. The Tongue can either produce life or death so when it becomes uncontrollable, it can be a very dangerous destroyer. How to put this powerful organ of the body to a profitable use and repair what has been damaged are

Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother (Fennelly Beth Ann)(Paperback)

Beth Ann Fennelly, writing to a newly pregnant friend, goes beyond the nuts and bolts or sentimentality of other parenting literature, in letters that range in tone from serious to sisterly, from lighthearted to downright funny. Some answer specific questions; others muse about the identity shift a