Author: Jonathan Crowe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935238973
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Laura Wertz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisdom
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Guy Deutscher
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1466837837
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language "Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning? Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early "Me Tarzan" stage to such elaborate single-word constructions as the Turkish sehirlilestiremediklerimizdensiniz ("you are one of those whom we couldn't turn into a town dweller"). Arguing that destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined, Deutscher shows how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, new structures, and new meanings. As entertaining as it is erudite, The Unfolding of Language moves nimbly from ancient Babylonian to American idiom, from the central role of metaphor to the staggering triumph of design that is the Semitic verb, to tell the dramatic story and explain the genius behind a uniquely human faculty.

Author: Viktor E Frankl
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448177685
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

Author: Patty Crowe
Publisher: RicherResourcesPublications
ISBN: 0977626954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Zeus, Father of the Olympian Immortals, said, How simple the child. 3000 years later, B. C. Forbes of Forbes magazine fame made the statement, Upon our children - how they are taught - rests the fate - or fortune - of tomorrow s world. Both true, yet spans apart, it is perhaps the very width of this span which best defines the child. Small yet wide-eyed, innocent yet persistent, the source of both our greatest worries and our most passionate joys, They are who they are, could well be the best description yet. Compiled from the wisdom of 3000 years of recorded history, the one thing which seems certain is that childhood is a special time for the child as well as for the adult. Richer Resources Publications is pleased to add this most recent title to its Greatest Quotes Series of illustrated gift books. This wonderfully illustrated book gives reflection to the joys of childhood and of being a child. Every childhood is unique yet nearly all contain the same aspects of play, imagination and quiet solitude. With every quote, we are reminded of the joys of being a pirate one minute and falling asleep as a prince or princess the next. 48 pages of insightful, heartfelt and inspiring wisdom and illustrations.

Author: Susheel Ladwa
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781503385016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Great minds from past to present, politicians to pop stars have something to share with the world. This book is a collection of select quotes and sayings from famous personalities.

Author: Jonathan Crowe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935238980
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Thomas Berry
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307434192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, particularly the universities and other educational institutions whose role is to guide students into an appreciation rather than an exploitation of the world around them. Berry is the leading spokesperson for the Earth, and his profound ecological insight illuminates the path we need to take in the realms of ethics, politics, economics, and education if both we and the planet are to survive.

Author: Newton Thornburg
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1626817464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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“A thriller, and a whacking good thriller, too . . . shows how much can be done within a classic form by a writer who knows his business.”—The New York Times Alex Cutter is a scarred and crippled Vietnam veteran, obsessed with a murder he’s convinced his buddy, Richard Bone, witnessed. That it was committed by the powerful tycoon JJ Wolfe only makes Cutter even surer that Bone saw the unthinkable. Captivated by Cutter’s demented logic, Bone is prepared to cross the country with Cutter in search of proof of the murder. Their quest takes them into the Ozarks—home base of the Wolfe empire—where Bone discovers that Cutter is pursuing both a cold-blooded killer, but also an even bigger and more elusive enemy. “Tense, funny, and despairing . . . charged with a passion that makes even grotesques seem likeable and, more important, credible right up to the last, startling sentence.”—Time “May be the quintessential cult crime classic . . . continues to be cited by other writers as groundbreaking . . . The ending is pure Chinatown, with a dose of Easy Rider, and it leaves us reeling.”—Booklist (starred review) Praise for Newton Thornburg “A commanding writer of unusual delicacy and power.”—The New Yorker “A born storyteller.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “One of the truly great American writers of the 20th century.”—The Guardian

Author: Laura Wertz
Publisher: RicherResourcesPublications
ISBN: 0977626938
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Mankind has long sought answers to the questions of his own mortality. Time and again, this led inevitably to the broader questions of life itself, and therein lies the common denominator of man's wisdom on aging. Philosophers from Diogenes to Dylan each have their own statements on the matter but they seem to agree on one thing. Aging is a part of living. Aging doesn't mean getting old. All will age. We begin aging from the time we are born. But we only begin to get old when we no longer find beauty in living and reasons to live. These pages contain 2500 years of wisdom poignantly illustrated by an artist ho herself remained young all her life, right on up to the age of 87. Richer Resources Publications is pleased to add this latest title to their Greatest Quotes Series of books.