Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town, Cheney Allen
Автор: Seyfarth Robert M., Cheney Dorothy L. Название: The Social Origins of Language ISBN: 0691177236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691177236 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
How human language evolved from the need for social communication
The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language--in its modern form--remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution.
In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language.
Seyfarth and Cheney's argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Christopher I. Petkov and Benjamin Wilson, and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.
Автор: Beard Название: Dick Cheney Code ISBN: 0743270029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743270021 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Vice president Dick Cheney is at the receiving end of Beard`s barbs in this hilarious send-up of Dan Brown`s bestseller.
Автор: De Girolami Cheney, Liana Название: Giorgio vasari`s prefaces ISBN: 1433107996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433107993 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 53990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Giorgio Vasari`s Prefaces
A story of mercy, miracles, and melody--and above all else: love.
During the Great Depression, Fred Allen is born poor and hungry in the shadow of rural Georgia's infamous cotton mills. By the time Fred is three years old, he can play hymns on the piano without missing a note. In kindergarten, he amazes adults with Chopin. Terrified that Fred's genius is proof of a curse, his parents lock away the piano.
Cut off from his only source of joy, little Fred sinks into the chasms of neglect, depression, and hunger. Then Eleanor, a woman just released from prison for attempted murder, rents a room in his family's deteriorating home. Under her fierce eye, Fred is protected, fed, and loved. "You gotta find a way to get out," Eleanor says. "You were born for so much more than this."
Fred undertakes an arduous but miraculous journey through the Juilliard School in New York City, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, and eventually the professional music scene. With the help of a few miracles, he climbs the ladder of success, marries, becomes a father and a scholar, and establishes an enviable reputation as a Grammy-nominated music producer.
Then in heartbreaking speed, Fred's past catches up with him, and his family becomes divided. He must choose either to pursue his dreams of fame and success or love.
But miracles aren't just for those with big-city dreams. In Thomasville, Georgia, amid the wreckage of his history, Fred and his resilient wife, Winnie, reassemble the pieces of their lives and encounter what just might be the greatest miracle yet--not just for them but for the entire town.
This inspiring story is sure to encourage anyone who has ever hoped their creative abilities might touch the lives of others.
Автор: Cheney-Coker Syl Название: Sacred River ISBN: 0821421379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821421376 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "The novel fits easily into the post-independence disillusionment novel canon along with Achebe's A Man of the People, Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, and wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow." —African Studies Quarterly The reincarnation of a legendary nineteenth-century Caribbean emperor as a contemporary African leader is at the heart of this novel. Sacred River deals with the extraordinary lives, hopes, powerful myths, stories, and tragedies of the people of a modern West African nation. It is also the compelling love story of an idealistic philosophy professor and an ex-courtesan of incomparable beauty. Two hundred years after his death, the great Haitian emperor Henri Christophe miraculously appears in a dream to Tankor Satani, president of the fictional West African country of Kissi, with instructions for Tankor to continue Henri Christophe's rule, which had been interrupted by "that damned Napoleon." Ambitious in scope, Sacred River is a diaspora-inspired novel, in which Cheney-Coker has tackled the major themes of politics, social strife, crime and punishment, and human frailty and redemption in Malagueta, the fictional, magical town and its surroundings first created by the author in The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, for which he was awarded the coveted Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Sacred River is equally about love and politics, and marks the return to fiction of one of Africa's major writers.
Автор: Cheney Harriet Vaughan Название: The Rivals of Acadia ISBN: 3734023955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783734023958 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 63110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Reproduction of the original: The Rivals of Acadia by Harriet Vaughan Cheney
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