Time Tamed

Time Tamed

Author: Nicholas Foulkes

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1471170659

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'Downright fascinating...indispensable reading' Daily Telegraph 'Nicholas Foulkes' excellent...book is beautifully illustrated. Captivating' Daily Mail For more than 25,000 years, humanity has sought to understand and measure the passing of time, in the process creating some of the most remarkable and beautiful timepieces. Now, in Nicholas Foulkes' lavishly illustrated book, the battle to tame time is brought vividly to life. From the baboon bone dating back to the palaeolithic era that marked the lunar cycle and on to the 3500-year-old water clock at Karnak, from our earliest days mankind has sought to track the passing of time. More recently, the struggles to measure longitude and to create a workable train timetable across the vast, open expanse of the United States have inspired new developments. In Time Tamed, Nicholas Foulkes reveals how we have done this by focusing on some of the most significant developments in timekeeping across the ages. He also highlights the most stunning and lavish clocks and watches in history - from Big Ben to Rolex - for telling the time has never been purely about function, but also about design. The book is filled with remarkable tales, from the 14th century monk in St Albans who created one of the first mechanical clocks to the Holy Roman Emperor who built a clock into an automated ship that fired a cannon to summon guests to dinner. More recently, there was the Surrey woman who used a Napoleonic era watch to 'deliver' the accurate time to London shopkeepers in the wartime era of Churchill, or the Swiss denture maker who solved a tricky problem for the Indian Raj's polo players. Time Tamed is a book you'll want to spend many hours enjoying.


A Mystical Key to the English Language

A Mystical Key to the English Language

Author: Robert M. Hoffstein

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 1992-08

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780892813094

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Robert Hoffstein explains that words are not arbitrarily chosen but constructed on ageless principles, an awareness of which allows us to communicate with more understanding and potency. With humor and insight, the author analyzes the esoteric meaning of words and letters we use every day, relating them to ancient alphabets and symbolic language.


Taming the TAME Systems

Taming the TAME Systems

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Publisher: Hotei Publishing

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9004292772

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This volume on TAME systems (Tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality) stems from the 10th Chronos conference that took place in Aston University (Birmingham, UK) on 18th-20th April 2011. The papers collated here are therefore a chosen selection from a stringent peer-review process. They also witness to the width and breadth of the interests pursued within the Chronos community. Besides the traditional Western European languages, this volume explores languages from Eastern Europe (Greek, Romanian, Russian) and much further afield such as Brazilian Portuguese, Korean or Mandarin Chinese. Little known languages from the Amazonian forest (Amondawa, Baure) or the Andes (Aymara) also come under scrutiny.


Motor and Sensory Processes of Language

Motor and Sensory Processes of Language

Author: Eric Keller

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1135059926

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Published in 1987, Motor and Sensory Processes of Language is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.


Taming Babel

Taming Babel

Author: Rachel Leow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1107148537

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Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects.


How To Master English as a Multilingual

How To Master English as a Multilingual

Author: Shai Dothan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-01-19

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1035306751

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Based on years of experience teaching English to non-native speakers, this insightful How To guide describes not only the particular challenges that multilinguals face compared to native English speakers but also the unique benefits of working in multiple languages.


Optimal Language Learning

Optimal Language Learning

Author: Noumane Rahouti

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1475833903

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Most language learners find learning a language stressful and frustrating. However, the problem may not be with the language, but the approach to it. Optimal Language Learning describes the effective, idiosyncratic approaches of five highly gifted language learners, discerns patterns among their stories of success, and describes implications for language learning for anyone who would like to master a new language.