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28 produkter
Conspirituality
How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
Av Derek Beres, Julian Walker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
311 kr
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Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia—peddling vaccine misinformation, tales of child trafficking, and wild conspiracy theories. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a …
Discovering Words in the Kitchen
E-bok, 2013
87 kr
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Throughout history the English language has reflected social changes, trade routes, and waves of fashion. This book examines the histories of the names of foods, ingredients, utensils, drinks, cooking methods, and dishes to show how the vocabulary of English has reflected the ways speakers of the …
Team Talk
Sporting Words and Their Origins
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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Have you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang? It was during the nineteenth century that hitherto local games with relaxed and varying rules were formalized. During this process terminologies developed to refer to these new …
Discovering Words
E-bok, 2013
88 kr
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For centuries English has assimilated words from other languages. Julian Walker offers a treasury of word histories, showing the variety of ways in which the words we use have evolved. The book is arranged into subjects, within which a selection of words are traced back through the stages by which …
Discovering Words in the Kitchen
E-bok, 2013
88 kr
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Throughout history the English language has reflected social changes, trade routes, and waves of fashion. This book examines the histories of the names of foods, ingredients, utensils, drinks, cooking methods, and dishes to show how the vocabulary of English has reflected the ways speakers of the …
Team Talk
Sporting Words and Their Origins
E-bok, 2013
129 kr
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Have you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang? It was during the nineteenth century that hitherto local games with relaxed and varying rules were formalized. During this process terminologies developed to refer to these new …
Discovering Words
E-bok, 2013
88 kr
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For centuries English has assimilated words from other languages. Julian Walker offers a treasury of word histories, showing the variety of ways in which the words we use have evolved. The book is arranged into subjects, within which a selection of words are traced back through the stages by which …
Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Av Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
485 kr
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Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Av Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
542 kr
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Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War
Av Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq
Inbunden, 2016
1465 kr
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This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War. With contributions from international academics, the chapters cover all aspects of communicating in a transnational war including languages at the front; interpretation, translation and parallels between languages; …
Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War
Av Christophe Declercq, Julian Walker
E-bok, 2016
1953 kr
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This book examines language change and documentation during the First World War. With contributions from international academics, the chapters cover all aspects of communicating in a transnational war including languages at the front; interpretation, translation and parallels between languages; …
Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory
Av Christophe Declercq, Julian Walker
Inbunden, 2016
568 kr
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With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language change and documentation during …
Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory
Av Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq
E-bok, 2016
803 kr
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With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language change and documentation during …
Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory
Av Christophe Declercq, Julian Walker
Häftad, 2017
567 kr
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With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language change and documentation during …
Words and the First World War
Language, Memory, Vocabulary
Häftad, 2017
314 kr
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"An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The SpectatorFirst World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the …
Words and the First World War
Language, Memory, Vocabulary
Inbunden, 2017
1029 kr
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"An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The SpectatorFirst World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the …
Words and the First World War
Language, Memory, Vocabulary
E-bok, 2017
330 kr
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"An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The Spectator First World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the …
Words and the First World War
Language, Memory, Vocabulary
E-bok, 2017
337 kr
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"An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The Spectator First World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the …
Multilingual Environments in the Great War
Av Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq
Inbunden, 2021
1759 kr
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This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to reveal less expected areas of …
Multilingual Environments in the Great War
Av Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq
E-bok, 2021
482 kr
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This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to reveal less expected areas of …
Multilingual Environments in the Great War
Av Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq
E-bok, 2021
468 kr
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This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to reveal less expected areas of …
Multilingual Environments in the Great War
Av Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq
Häftad, 2023
445 kr
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This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to reveal less expected areas of …
Reading's Buses 2010-2019
A Decade of Colour and Change
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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The period 2010–2019 was one of change and colour in Reading’s bus services. Many routes and liveries were altered, not just for Reading Buses but also other operators that ran longer-distance services into the town. There was expansion as Reading Buses took on the services of other operators in …
Tommy French
How British First World War Soldiers Turned French into Slang
Inbunden, 2021
225 kr
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'Napoo', 'compray', 'san fairy ann', 'toot sweet' are anglicized French phrases that came into use on the Western Front during the First World War as British troops struggled to communicate in French. Over four years of war they created an extraordinary slang which reflects the period and brings …
Tommy French
How British First World War Soldiers Turned French into Slang
E-bok, 2021
294 kr
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''Napoo'', ''compray'', ''san fairy ann'', ''toot sweet'' are anglicized French phrases that came into use on the Western Front during the First World War as British troops struggled to communicate in French. Over four years of war they created an extraordinary slang which reflects the period and …
Cape Crusaders
Driving a Red Dennis Fire Engine from the Tip of Europe to the Bottom of Africa
Häftad, 2013
239 kr
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In 1987, seven people embarked on a three month charity expedition to drive an old red Dennis fire engine from the northern tip of Europe to the southernmost point of Africa. After almost five months, 37,000km, 21 countries, and a journey through rainforest, bush veldt, deserts and urban …
Book of Cringe - A Collection of Reasonably Clean but Silly Schoolboy Jokes
Häftad, 2015
162 kr
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Around 2,000 jokes, puns and poems of cringe-worthy silliness - and one piece of advice: *If at first you don't succeed ...forget skydiving. Dad jokes at their very worst - dive in, cringe and, above all, be amused. But if you have wondered about these questions: *What would happen if there were no …
Urban Claims and the Right to the City
Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador Da Bahia and London
Av Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
694 kr
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Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how the rights of city dwellers are understood and interpreted in Brazil and the UK.