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  • Essential German Grammar

    by Martin Durrell, Katrin Kohl, Claudia Kaiser ...
    Series series Essential Language Grammars
    Essential German Grammar is a student-friendly grammar and workbook designed to give learners a firm foundation on which to build a real understanding of both spoken and written German. The reference grammar section offers clear explanations of key grammar points while a separate exercise section gives students the opportunity to test themselves and put into practice what they have learned.This ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Modern Languages

    Why It Matters

    by Katrin Kohl ...
    Series series Why It Matters
    It might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornucopia of languages. Even monolingual people have different ways of speaking to their bosses or teachers, their intimate friends or their pets. And if you live in India or Nigeria, you might use five different languages during a typical day.Katrin Kohl ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto

    by Katrin Kohl, Rajinder Dudrah, Andrew Gosler, Suzanne Graham, Martin Maiden, Wen-chin Ouyang, Matthew Reynolds ...
    Multilingualism is integral to the human condition. Hinging on the concept of Creative Multilingualism – the idea that language diversity and creativity are mutually enriching – this timely and thought-provoking volume shows how the concept provides a matrix for experimentation with ideas, approaches and methods.The book presents four years of joint research on Creative Multilingualism conducted ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictionary of Contemporary Germany

    by Tristam Carrington-Windo, Katrin Kohl ...
    Series series Contemporary Country Dictionaries
    A series of dictionaries on the contemporary milieu of the world's most important countries. The Contemporary**Country Dictionary series are not tourist guides--though tourists with a serious interest in countries they are visiting will find them of great help in learning more about these societies.These alphabetical reference guides have been compiled to give up-to-date information on all aspects ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Weimar Republic

    Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936

    by Professor Anthony McElligott ...
    “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UKThis study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Africa’s Struggle for Its Art

    History of a Postcolonial Defeat

    by Bénédicte Savoy ...
    Translated by Susanne Meyer-Abich ...
    A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powersFor decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • The One and the Many

    Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

    by Grant H. Kester ...
    Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs, and Santiago Sierra, to the less ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • After the 'Socialist Spring'

    Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

    by George Last ...
    Series Book 26 - Monographs in German History
    Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority. However, developments were more complicated than the standard state/society dichotomy that has dominated the debate among GDR historians. Drawing on a broad range of archival material from state and SED party sources as well as Stasi files and individual farm records along ... Read more

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    A History from the Heart of Europe

    by Suzanne L. Marchand ...
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  • The Language Revolution

    by David Crystal ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages.In this book, David Crystal, one of the world’s authorities on language, brings together for the first time the three major trends which he argues have fundamentally altered the ... Read more

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  • Behind the Berlin Wall

    East Germany and the Frontiers of Power

    by Patrick Major ...
    Few historical changes occur literally overnight, but on 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. This new history rejects traditional, top-down approaches to Cold War politics, exploring instead how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to ... Read more

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