Language History

الصوت جزءٌ لا يتجزّأ من تجربتنا الحياتية وتفاعلنا مع العالم من حولنا، سواء أكان ذلك في صورة ضجيج أم موسيقى؛ فالصوت يُشكِّل كيفية تعاملنا مع كل ما يحيط بنا، ومن ثم فلا غنى عن فهمه في العديد من المجالات المتنوّعة، مثل علم النفس واللغويات والعمارة والسلوك الحيواني والتطوّر وعلم المحيطات، وبالطبع الموسيقى. في هذا الكتاب، يأخذنا مايك جولدسميث في جولة سريعة نلقي فيها نظرة على علم الصوت ونستكشفه في سياقات متباينة، ما بين المسموع وغير المسموع، وما تحت الأرض وتحت الماء، وما هو إلكتروني وكهربائي، فضلاً عن نعمة السمع لدى الإنسان والحيوان. وعلى مدار الفصول الثمانية القصيرة لهذا الكتاب، يلقي جولدسميث الضوء على أهم الاكتشافات في تاريخ البشرية التي أثّرت على فهمنا للصوت واستخداماتنا المعاصرة له، كما يناقش مشكلة الصوت عندما يكون «في غير محله»، أي الضجيج، وكيف يمكننا الحدّ منه وحماية آذاننا وسط الأصوات التي لا نختار الاستماع إليها.

في هذه المقدِّمة الموجزة، يستكشف بيتر آدمسون تاريخَ الفلسفة لدى المسلمين واليهود والمسيحيين في الأراضي الإسلامية، من خلفيتها التاريخية إلى مفكري القرن العشرين. ومن خلال تقديـم الموضوعـات الفلســفية الرئيسية في العالم الإسلامي، يدمج آدمسون أفكاراً من الديانات الإسلامية والمسيحية واليهودية للنظر في الأسئلة الفلسفية الواسعة التي تستمرُّ في إثارة الجدل، مثل: ما العلاقة بين العقل والمعتقَد الديني؟ ما طبيعة المعرفة؟ كيف يمكن للفلسفة أن تؤثِّر على الأخلاق والسياسة؟ واعتماداً على أحدثِ الأبحاث في هذا المجال، يتحدَّى هذا الكتاب افتراضَ التدهور الثقافي للفلسفة والعلوم في العالم الإسلامي من خلال إظهار تراثهما الغني وتداخلهما مع الديانات والفلسفات الأخرى.

At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom. In 16th-century Europe, women's voices were suppressed and silenced. Even for a queen like Mary, her prime duty was to bear sons. In an age when textiles expressed power, Mary exploited them to emphasise her female agency.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the...

"With easygoing authority... [Fridland] offers context, and a welcoming spirit, to the many contentious realignments in our language."—The Wall Street Journal “Smart and funny—I loved it!" —Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for...

The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making is the guide you need. Backed by cognitive science and grounded in real-life examples, this hands-on workbook helps you outthink bias, avoid manipulation, and make better choices in every area of life.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fire change in the way we create, consume, define, and use words. Words are the currency of...

For the last 150 years, both popular and academic views have asserted that Jesus spoke Aramaic as his primary language of communication since supposedly Hebrew died out after the children of Israel were taken into Babylonian captivity. This view, however, is not based on the testimony of the Old Testament, the New Testament, historical sources, or Jesus' actual words. Just which language did Jesus and his disciples speak?

All effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's 3 basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric. In Poetics, Aristotle draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. This collection also includes Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic.

The French point of view: “La langue anglaise n’existe pas. C’est du français mal prononcé.” (“The English language doesn’t exist. It is badly pronounced French.”) Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister, 1917-1920.

In our ever-more-polarized society, there's at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all. Of course, we're not among them - are we? Scientist David Robert Grimes is on a mission to expose the logical fallacies and cognitive biases that drive our discourse on a dizzying array of topics - from vaccination to abortion, 9/11 conspiracy theories to dictatorial doublespeak, astrology to alternative medicine, and wrongful convictions to racism.

Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them. Here are 1001 terms everyone needs, whether it's the best kind of hug (CWTCH), the relief found in swearing (LALOCHEZIA), or the ability to endure till the end (PERTOLERANCE).

Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play and come away without fully understanding it? Or wished you had known the basis of the plot before seeing a play by Shakespeare? Are you studying Shakespeare? Would you like to increase your knowledge of the plays without reading the originals? Then these are the recordings for you!

In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care for our children. Journeying to the dawn of Homo sapiens, evolutionary biologist Madeleine...

Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.

This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it...

For more than twenty-five years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This newly revised and updated edition combines classic techniques in the art of...

“A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor.” ―Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington...

On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a treacherous Jewish philosophy. David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle - an influential group of brilliant thinkers led by Schlick.

For months, INSET has been investigating a local terrorist cell that is planning an attack on New Year's Day. INSET had an informant, Mohsin Dar, undercover inside the cell. But now, just weeks before the attack, Mohsin has been murdered at the group's training camp deep in the woods. INSET wants Khattak to give the appearance of investigating Mohsin's death and then to bury the lead. They can't risk exposing their operation or Mohsin's role in it.