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Languages are everywhere/ by Sims, Nandi,author; Malaski, Catherine,editor;

What is language and why is it important with how we communicate with each other? Learn about different languages, forms of language, and other ways people communicate with one another -- from publisherInterest Grade Level: K-2Rourke Guided Reading Level

Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Language and languages; Written communication; Sign language; Multilingual persons; Linguistics; Contrastive linguistics;

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Spanish in the United States/ by Sims, Nandi,author; Malaski, Catherine,editor;

What is the difference between English and Spanish in the United States? Learn how to compare and contrast these two important languages and how they originated. -- from publisherInterest Grade Level: K-2Rourke Guided Reading Level

Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Language and languages; Sociolinguistics; Language and history; Spanish language; Linguistics; Contrastive linguistics;

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Language varies/ by Sims, Nandi,author; Malaski, Catherine,editor;

What are the variations of the English language? Learn how regional dialects, different cultures, and other languages develop different forms of English -- from publisherInterest Grade Level: K-2Rourke Guided Reading Level

Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Language and languages; Sociolinguistics; Language and history; English language; English language; Linguistics; Contrastive linguistics; Individual differences;

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The semantics of Biblical language. by Barr, James,1924-2006.(CARDINAL)124823;

Includes bibliography.Importance of the problem -- Current contrast of Greek and Hebrew thought -- Problems of method -- Verbs, action and time -- Other arguments from morphological and syntactic phenomena -- Etymologies and related arguments -- 'Faith' and 'Truth'-- an examination of some linguistic arguments -- Some principles of Kittel's Theological Dictionary -- Language and the idea of 'Biblical Theology' -- Detached note on the non-use of certain words in the Greek Bible -- Languages and the Study of Theology -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Hebrew words -- Index of Greek words -- Index of persons and subjects.It is a main concern of both scholarship and theology that the Bible should be soundly and adequately interpreted. In recent years I have come to believe that one of the greatest dangers to such sound and adequate interpretation comes from the prevailing use of procedures which, while claiming to rest upon a knowledge of the Israelite and the Greek ways of thinking, constantly mishandle and distort the linguistic evidence of the Hebrew and Greek languages as they are used in the Bible. The fact that these procedures have never to my knowledge been collected, analyzed and criticized in detail was the chief stimulus to my undertaking of this task myself. - Preface.

Subjects: Bible;

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Atlas of Indian nations. by Treuer, Anton.(CARDINAL)707140;

Includes bibliographical references and index.[p. 5 caption for pic opposite and previous page 200-600 cws] -- Preceding pages: in the spring, the menominee and neighboring tribes speared fish by torchlight at night, harvesting 85 percent male fish with efficiency and sustainability. native nations developed numerous unique and vibrant cultures over centuries of life on the continent before european arrival. opposite: a menominee warrior with head roach, war paint, and feathers -- [p. 7 caption 200-600 cws] -- Opposite: north america was home to more than 500 distinct tribes, speaking more than 300 distinct languages from 29 different primary language families, as shown on this map. the linguistic diversity of north american tribes is astounding. european languages have three major classifications by contrast, broken into several families. the largest tribal language families in the united states and canada are na-den?, uto-aztecan, and algonquian (algic). in mexico, some tribal languages are quite vibrant. quechuan has 6-7 million speakers. but most indigenous languages of the americans are extremely endangered -- [p. 9 caption 185 cws[2]] -- Nature infuses indian art and culture. a depiction of the sun dominates this hopi kachina mask (above). an arikara man (opposite) poses with a tanned bear hide -- .

Subjects: Atlases.; Maps.; Indians of North America; Indians of North America;

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The art of colour : the history of art in 39 pigments / by Grovier, Kelly,author.(CARDINAL)356987; Yale University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)332061;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-243) and index.Introduction: Artymology -- Red -- Colorful minds: Isaac Newton's Opticks (1704) -- Orange -- Colorful minds: Tobias Mayer's The Affinity of Colour Commentary (1775) -- Yellow -- Colorful minds: Mary Gartside's Essay on Light and Shade, on Colours, and on Composition in General (1805) -- Green -- Colorful minds: Goethe's Theory of Colours (1810) -- Blue -- Colorful minds: Philipp Otto Runge's Colour Sphere (1810) -- Purple -- Colorful minds: Michel Eug̈ne Chevreul's The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours (1839) -- Black -- Colorful minds: Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's Color Problems (1902) -- White -- Colorful minds: Albert Henry Munsell's Atlas of the Munsell Color System (1915) -- Brown -- Colorful minds: Johannes Itten's Utopia (1921) -- Precious metals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index Acknowledgments."A captivating new history of art told through the storied biographies of colors and pigments. In this refreshing approach to the history of color, Kelly Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing and unusual. In Grovier's telling, a color's connotations are never fixed but are endlessly evolving. Knowledge of a pigment and its history can unlock meaning in the works that feature it. Grovier employs the term "artymology" to suggest that color is a linguistic device, where pigments stand in for syllables in art's language. Color is the site of invigorating conflict--a battleground where past and present, influence and originality, and superstition and science merge into meanings that complicate and intensify our appreciation of a given work. How might it change our understanding of a well-known masterpiece like Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night to know that the intense yellow moon in that painting was sculpted from clumps of dehydrated urine from cows that were fed nothing but mango leaves? Or that the cobalt blue pigment in Van Gogh's sky shares a material bloodline with the glaze of Ming Dynasty porcelain? Consisting of ten chapters, each presenting a biography of a family of colors, this volume mines a rich vein of pigmentation from prehistoric cave painting to art of the present day. The book also includes beautifully designed features exploring important milestones in the history of color theory from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century."--Publisher's website.

Subjects: Color in art; Colors; Pigments;

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The democratic civilization. by Lipson, Leslie,1912-2000.(CARDINAL)132498;

Bibliography: pages 595-598.1. Introduction -- New conditions and old notions -- What this book is about -- The democratic record -- The general nature of politics -- The social materials -- Creative government -- Ideal goals -- The use of comparisons -- Democracy as a civilizing force -- Part I The criteria of Democracy -- 2. The classical tradition -- The Athenian origins -- The historians' judgment: (1) Herodotus and the Persians -- (2) Thucydides and Pericles -- Decline of Athenian democracy -- The philosophers' analysis: (1) Plato's attack -- (2) Aristotle's summation -- The Greek verdict -- Some unsettled questions -- A premature experiment? -- Hardening of the literary tradition -- Democracy defined by Hobbes, Locke, and Montesquieu -- The direct democracy of Rousseau and Madison -- 3. The modern rebirth -- The authority of the individual -- Individualism in the theories of Hobbes and Locke -- The individual in Rousseau's community -- Ambiguity of the general will -- The democratic impetus of the nineteenth century -- Representation and the change of scale -- Tocqueville on American democracy -- John Stuart Mill on representative government -- The century of the common man.Three views of democracy: (1) Machinery and process -- (2) The values of democratic politics -- (3) Social democracy -- democracy and liberalism -- Nationalism an democracy -- These and variations -- Part II The democratic society -- 4. The spread and limits of democracy -- From revolution to evolution -- British gradualism and example -- Full democracy a recent phenomenon -- The link with imperialism -- Survey of democracies in 1939 -- A contemporary estimate -- The social environment of the political system -- 5. Race relations -- The politics of racial, religious and linguistic groupings -- Characteristics of a divided society -- How such divisions concern democracy -- Government in a racially mixed community -- Racial experience of the United States: (1) Slavery versus democracy -- (2) Democracy versus discrimination -- The struggle of American negroes for equality -- South Africa: The politics of fear -- Apartheid plus the police state -- Brazil's three races -- Equality of races, inequality of classes -- The Hawaiian melting-pot -- The spread of interracial tolerance.6. Language and religion -- Governing people who differ in speech and faith -- A comparison of Spain and Russia -- The rule of intolerance -- The multinational Austrian empire -- The democratic state in mixed communities -- Belgium's split personality -- The two cultures in Canada -- The observations of Lord Durham -- Diversity within a federal union -- The Swiss paradox -- Why the Swiss had to be tolerant -- The unity of the unlike -- Cleavages in modern Switzerland -- Toleration and neutrality -- Equality for dissimilars -- 7. Geopolitics -- Geographical influences on politics -- The physical foundations of states -- Political types in relation to power on land or sea -- Sea power and Athenian democracy -- Land power and the government of Sparta -- The Roman land empire and the loss of the republic -- Russia and Prussia -- Army and autocracy in Germany -- The British navy and domestic liberty -- Oceanic safeguards of the United States -- Generalization from these examples -- Some apparent exceptions: (1) The rise of American land power -- (2) The French army versus the democratic republics -- (3) The Swiss case which proves the rule -- Why navies did not threaten democracy -- Questions about air power and space -- The political cost of armaments -- Contemporary military regimes -- The primacy of politics over arms -- 8. The economic origins -- The political economy -- Economic prerequisites of democracy -- Challenges to feudalism -- The pre-industrial revolutions -- The second stage of revolution -- Industrial economics and maturing democracy -- Class relations in nineteenth-century Britain -- Diagnoses by Disraeli, Marx, and Mill.Agrarian roots of American democracy -- The merger of Jefferson and Hamilton -- Industrial expansion of the United States -- Big government for big business -- The experience of continental Europe -- The middle class in France and Italy -- Unifying the Germans: The liberals or Bismarck -- Weimar or Nazism -- Pivotal role of the middle class -- 9. Modern economic policies -- Economic factors connected with democracy -- Democracy under Agrarian conditions -- (1) The case of Denmark -- (2) The New Zealand parallel -- Is democracy the luxury of the rich? High living standards and democratic states -- A warning about casual inferences -- Capitalism, socialism, and democratic government -- The dilemma of liberalism -- The modern mixed economics -- Public ownership -- The social services -- Planning and regulation -- The American economy and state control -- Contrasts in the affluent society -- The prestige of the businessman -- Future responsibilities of government -- Part III The politics and government of democracy -- 10. The sovereign voters -- Political dynamics and democratic institutions -- Participation by the people -- Removal of obstacles to universal suffrage -- The use of the right to vote -- Reasons for voting and non-voting -- Effects of the electoral system -- Voting in New Zealand, a special case -- Influence on the vote of parties and campaigning -- Political implications of mass voting -- The education of the public -- The frequency of elections -- The popular initiative and referendum -- Distrust of the legislature.11. The two-party system -- The ancestors of parties -- Why parties are essential to democratic government -- The causes of the party system -- The classic two-party model: Great Britain -- Institutional explanations of British parties -- (1) The cabinet and the power to dissolve -- (2) The electoral system -- The social roots of British politics -- Dualism, religious and economic -- Response of the parties to industrialism -- The model exported to Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa -- Institutional patterns of the four countries -- Their social structures, from simple to complex -- Summary of experience in the older commonwealth -- The two party-systems of the United States -- Alignments in modern American politics -- 12. Politics with many parties -- Characteristics of multipartism -- Reasons for the Swiss party system -- Formation of the parties before World War I -- How the electoral system originally operated -- The switch to proportional representation -- Relative strength of Swiss parties since 1919 -- The radicals and the socialists -- The Catholic-conservatives and the smaller parties -- Stable multipartism in Scandinavia -- The case of the Norwegian Labor Party -- French politics in the third and fourth republics -- "Proving" an untruth -- Institutions molded by the party system -- What the electoral permutations reveal -- Disagreements about first principles -- Timing and sequence of French political events -- Toward an unscientific generalization -- 13. The constitutional order -- The rationale of constitutions -- Aristotle's analysis -- The social content of constitutional forms -- The Brazilian experience -- Requirements for a democratic constitution -- The British constitutional crisis of 1909-11 -- The lessons of those events -- The South African controversy of 1951-56 -- The two cases compared -- Political evolution of the American constitution -- France's perpetual revolution -- The control and transfer of power.14. Political leadership -- Leadership of the democratic style -- The ambivalence of leadership -- The Swiss type of collegial executive -- Party composition of the federal council -- The American presidency -- The quality of presidents -- The functions of a president -- The chief legislator -- The responsibility for foreign relations -- The British cabinet system -- Party influence on the cabinet -- The prime minister -- The premier's position in the ministry -- The choice of a new leader -- The American administration -- The growing resemblance of the presidency and premiership -- Comparison of the three systems -- Part IV The democratic values -- 16. Liberty and equality -- The purpose of a philosophy of democracy -- Contradictions among the traditional concepts -- Critique of Mill's analysis of liberty -- The case for absolute intellectual freedom -- The consequences of expressing opinions -- Ethical value and scientific truth -- Are there limits to tolerance? -- Equality: Identical or proportional -- Status, rewards, and quality -- Government as an equalizer -- Liberty multiplied by equality -- 17. Majority rule, minority rights, and the public good -- An ethical source for government power -- The virtue of consent -- Justifying majority rule -- The rightness of the larger numbers -- The rights of minorities -- Ideals in conflict -- The search for a synthesis -- (1) The natural rights theory -- (2) The quest for the general will -- The wisdom of the fallible -- Why democratic ideals are self-contradictory -- 18. Conclusions -- The social conditions of democracy -- The influences of philosophy -- The mediating role of politics -- The United States and Great Britain -- Switzerland, Denmark, Canada, and New Zealand -- Two categories of democracy -- What follows maturity? -- Fresh fields for democracy -- The negative summing-up -- The positive evaluation.

Subjects: Democracy.;

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