Download or read book Speaking the Earth s Languages written by Stuart Cooke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking the Earth’s Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple Languages, landscapes, and disciplines, and draws on a wide range of both oral and written poetries, in order to make strong claims about the importance of ‘a nomad poetics’ – not only for understanding Aboriginal or Mapuche writing practices but, more widely, for the problems confronting contemporary literature and politics in colonized landscapes. The book begins by critiquing canonical examples of non-indigenous postcolonial poetics. Incisive re-readings of two icons of Australian and Chilean poetry, Judith Wright (1915–2000) and Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), provide rich insights into non-indigenous responses to colonization in the wake of modernity. The second half of the book establishes compositional links between Aboriginal and Mapuche poetics, and between such oral and written poetics more generally. The book’s final part develops an ‘emerging synthesis’ of contemporary Aboriginal and Mapuche poetics, with reference to the work of two of the most important avant-garde Aboriginal and Mapuche poets of recent times, Lionel Fogarty (1958–) and Paulo Huirimilla (1973–). Speaking the Earth’s Languages uses these fascinating links between Aboriginal and Mapuche poetics as the basis of a deliberately nomadic, open-ended theory for an Australian–Chilean postcolonial poetics. “The central argument of this book,” the author writes, “is that a nomadic poetics is essential for a genuinely postcolonial form of habitation, or a habitation of colonized landscapes that doesn’t continue to replicate colonialist ideologies involving indigenous dispossession and environmental exploitation.”
Download or read book The Last Language on Earth written by Piers Kelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Eskayan language of Bohol in the southern Philippines has been an object of controversy ever since it came to light in the early 1980s. Written in an unusual script Eskayan bears no obvious similarity to any known language of the Philippines, a fact that has prompted speculation that it was either displaced from afar, fossilized from the deep past, or invented as an elaborate hoax. This book investigates the history of Eskayan through a systematic review of its writing system, grammar and lexicon, and carefully evaluates written and oral narratives provided by its contemporary speakers. The linguistic analysis largely supports the traditional view that Eskayan was the deliberate creation of a legendary ancestor by the name of Pinay. The study traces the identity of Pinay through the turbulent history of early 20th-century Bohol when the island suffered a series of catastrophes at the hands of the United States occupation. It was at this time that the ancestor Pinay was channelled by Mariano Datahan, a multilingual prophet who foretold that English and other languages would be abandoned and that Eskayan would one day be spoken by everyone in the world. To make sense of this situation, the book draws on theorizations of postcolonial resistance, language ideology, mimesis, and the utopian political dynamics of highland societies. In so doing, it offers a linguistic and ethnographic history of Eskayan and of the ideologies and historical circumstances that motivated its creation"--
Download or read book Language Interrupted written by John McWhorter and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book In the Land of Invented Languages written by Arika Okrent and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, Loglan (not to be confused with Lojban), and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. With intelligence and humor, Arika Okrent has written a truly original and enlightening book for all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.
Download or read book The Earth Speaks written by Steve Van Matre and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for nature lovers. One of the most popular nature anthologies ever published. "The Earth speaks" is a rich collection of images and impressions that includes many all-time favorite quotes and passages captured by those who have listened to the Earth with their hearts.
Download or read book Ecotheology written by David G. Hallman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and urgent item on the agenda of churches around the world is the theological and ethical dimensions of the ecological crisis. Highlighted by the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil, the issues covered in this volume raise unavoidable and fundamental questions of the life-style and Christian witness in the face of threats to the very survival of humankind and planet Earth. The groundbreaking essays by more than two-dozen contributors in this book are divided into five sections: biblical witness, theological challenges, insights from ecofeminism, insights from indigenous people, and ethical implications. Contributors include: JosŽ P. M. Cunanan, Philippines; Margot Kaessmann, Germany; Renthy Keitzar, India; K. C. Abraham, India; Tony Brun, Costa Rica; Milton B. Efthimiou, United States; Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, World Council of Churches; Kwok Pui-lan, Hong Kong; Larry Rasmussen, United States; Samuel Rayan, India; M. Adebisi Sowunmi, Nigeria; Tsehai Berhane-Selassie, Ethiopia; Chung Hyun Kyung, South Korea; Aruna Gnanadason, India; Anne Primavesi, United Kingdom; Rosemary Radford Ruether, United States; Rob Cooper, New Zealand; Stan McKay, Canada; George Tinker, United States; Edward Antonio, Zimbabwe; Leonardo Boff, Brazil; M. L. Daneel, South Africa; David G. Hallman, Canada; Dieter T. Hessel, United States Catherine Keller, United States.
Download or read book LEARN HOW to SPEAK the ANUNNAKI LANGUAGE Vol 3 written by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEARN HOW TO SPEAK THE ANUNNAKI LANGUAGE. Vol. 3 Dictionary, Vocabulary, Conversation. Comparison with Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, Chaldean, Hittite, Ugaritic, Babylonian. A WORLD PREMIERE EVENT. For the first time in philology's history, and chronicles of civilizations of the ancient world, Maximillien de Lafayette, a world renowned expert linguist (Ancient Languages) provides us with the first lexicon/thesaurus/dictionary of the Anunnaki and Ulemite languages. This book is a treasure. And YES you will be able to speak their terrestrial and extraterrestrials languages as spoken on Earth and their planet.
Download or read book A Rhyming Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language in which written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Rhyming Spelling and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language in Which I The Whole Laguage is Arranged According to Its Terminations II Every Word is Explained and Divided Into Syllables Exactly as Pronounced to which is Added an Index of Allowable Rhymes with Authorities for Their Usage from Our Best Poets written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hot Equations written by Jesse S. Cohn and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political “realism” that continue to suppress the radical imagination. Alluding both to the ongoing climate catastrophe and to Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”—that famous touchstone of “hard science fiction”—Hot Equations reads the crises of our "post-normal" moment via works that increasingly subvert genre containment and spill out into the public sphere. Drawing on archives and contemporary theory, author Jesse S. Cohn argues that these imaginative works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror strike at the very foundations of modernity, calling its basic assumptions into question. They threaten the modern order with a simultaneously terrible and promising anarchy, pointing to ways beyond the present medical, ecological, and political crises of pandemic, climate change, and rising global fascism. Examining books ranging from well-known titles like The Hunger Games and The Caves of Steel to newer works such as Under the Pendulum Sun and The Stone Sky, Cohn investigates the ways in which science fiction, fantasy, and horror address contemporary politics, social issues, and more. The “cold equations” that established normal life in the modern world may be in shambles, Cohn suggests, but a New Black Fantastic makes it possible for the radical imagination to glimpse viable possibilities on the other side of crisis.
Download or read book Carsi the Refugee Planet written by Hassen Dichari and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carsi: The Refugee Planet is the fi rst of the Carsian Trilogy by Hassen Dichari. The book will be based off of five major concepts; I have accumulated for seven years until completing in 2011 when I was 21 years old. Christianity, Lords the Rings book series, accomplishments of England and Spain, and my own personal battle with my eating disorder I briefl y went through in 2004- 2005, when this book fi rst came into surface in my mind, and Ufos that they are not extraterrestrials but Demons fl ying around in vehicles of deception and lies. There are fi ve races of creatures that live in Galaxy Dichri called the Gatekeepers, Glushers, Fisheon, Humans and Gulpers. The Gatekeepers speak Felish, Fisheon speak Fishi, Gulpers speak Gulpish, Glushers speak Glushi, and the Humans speak Human. According to Earths terms, Felish is similar to Spanish, Fishi to Arabic, Gulpish to Chinese, Glushi to Russian, and Human to Swahili. The books will be based off of many accomplishments, organizations and beliefs that exist on planet Earth today and over the past 2,000 years. Most of the books in the trilogy will be based on religion, with the Gatish race (called Gatekeepers) being the savior of the creatures of Galaxy Dichri. Sakim is the head fallen Gatekeeper and his followers, other fallen Gatekeepers, are called Mikplutons. Originally named Lucius, Sakim was the Emperor of Carsi 2,000 years ago. He was cast out of Carsi by the Creator itself, along with a third of the Gatish population for leaving the one and only faith of the Gatekeepers Moral Order. Since then, he has been preparing to release the ultimate lie to the four races of Galaxy Dichri (Glushers, Humans, Fisheon and Gulpers). The time has fi nally come for Sakim to return in physical form to deceive, devour and destroy Human, Fisheon, Glusher and Gulper lives and souls with the ultimate lie. The Creator so loves the Galaxy that it does not wish for its creation to suffer like this. So, from the beginning of time, a race of divine kind was created to spread the word of Moral Order after Lucius and a third of the Gatish population of Gatekeepers were cast out of Carsi. When the word of Moral Order would be heard in every country in Gateiniya and Sogyoni, there would be more evil than ever before. To bring an end to it, the Creator would give permission to Sakim to return in physical form. At the same time the Creator would allow the crucifi xion of the Gatekeepers to begin so that the other four races would one day live on Carsi, the Refugee Planet, after this historic event, instead of living in eternal damnation with Sakim on his spacecraft of doom.
Download or read book Bible Book for People of Color written by Deborah Thornton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book is intended to teach you who you are, where you come from, and where you are going. This book will also teach you how to love yourself and others regardless of race, religion, creed, or color. This book is not about racism, but about love. Let's obey God's law. Love if the law of God, and each of us is made in the image and likeness of our Heavenly Father. We are all his children. It is time for all of God's children to come together. Our future lies in the hands of our youth. Let's teach them how to love and get along with others. Believe it or not, there are a lot of ignorant people who believe that it is OK to hate someone based only on the color of their skin. Well it's not OK. Never judge anyone based on the color of their skin. Judge them by their personality. The Bible teaches us never to judge according to appearance. God created this world for all of us, not just for one race. We all need God, God doesn't need us. We are all a part of God's rainbow. We are all God's offspring.
Download or read book A New Method of Learning to Read Write and Speak a Language written by Charles Rudy and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Joseph Emerson Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nietzsche and the Earth written by Henk Manschot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) loved nature and his daily walks in the Swiss Mountains and by the Mediterranean Sea heavily influenced his writing, and particularly his most famous book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. By following the philosopher on these ramblings and reflecting on Zarathustra's (Nietzsche's alter ego) surprising interactions with the animals he meets on his way, Henk Manschot cleverly shows how all these experiences were reflected in the philosopher's thinking on the relationship between human beings and the Earth. Working at the intersection of philosophy and environmental studies, Manschot presents key Nietzschean concepts as the foundations of an ecological 'art of living' for the twenty-first century. In a unique contribution to the field, he also introduces the concept of 'terra-sophy', which combines the notions of terra (earth) and sophy (wisdom), to contend that humans should reimagine themselves as in a reciprocal relationship with the planet. For Manschot, Nietzsche's thought can inspire humanity to move from a human to an Earth-focused relationship to the world; a shift in thought that would considerably benefit a generation facing an unprecedented ecological crisis.
Download or read book Life and Language Beyond Earth written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could we communicate with lifeforms on exoplanets? This thought-provoking book explores the likelihood of life and language beyond Earth.
Download or read book Babel No More written by Michael Erard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review). In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day polyglot who knows dozens of languages and shows Erard the tricks of the trade to give him a dark glimpse into the life of obsessive language acquisition. With his ambitious examination of what language is, where it lives in the brain, and the cultural implications of polyglots’ pursuits, Erard explores the upper limits of our ability to learn and use languages and illuminates the intellectual potential in everyone. How do some people escape the curse of Babel—and what might the gods have demanded of them in return?
