Author: James Russell LowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Hale, Edward Everett, 1863-1932
Author: James Russell LowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Author: Pointing Our Thoughts
Author: Neil L. RudenstinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
As president of Harvard University, Neil Rudenstine has enjoyed a unique perspective on the state of higher learning. This selection of Rudenstine's talks and writings illuminates many of the ideas and issues that animate higher education today, from the educational importance of diversity to the teaching potential of new technologies.
Writings on American History
Author: The Harvard University Catalogue
Author: Harvard UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Record of Current Educational Publications ... Jan. 1912-Jan./Mar. 1932
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
Author: Martin PuchnerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324005920
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Tracking an underground language and the outcasts who depended on it for their survival becomes "a deeply personal project, one that probes the meaning of language and family, inheritance and debt" (Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times Book Review). Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight—whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis. As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language from his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names buried in the archives of Harvard’s Widener Library, that his own grandfather had been a committed Nazi who despised this "language of thieves." Interweaving family memoir with an adventurous foray into the mysteries of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original narrative. In a language born of migration and survival, he discovers a witty and resourceful spirit of tolerance that remains essential in our volatile present.
Black Women Oral History Project
Author: Catalogue - Harvard University
Author: Harvard UniversityAnnual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description