The Traveler's Vade Mecum
Author : Abraham Chittenden Baldwin
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Cipher and telegraph codes
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Author : Abraham Chittenden Baldwin
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Cipher and telegraph codes
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Author : Abraham Chittenden Baldwin
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Abraham Chittenden Baldwin
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780371546666
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : Sandra Beasley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393243214
“Beasley uses humor and surprise like a scythe, cutting to the root of a matter.”—Washington Post In Count the Waves, Sandra Beasley turns her eclectic imagination to the heart's pursuits. A man and a woman sit at the same dinner table, an ocean of worry separating them. An iceberg sets out to dance. A sword swallower ponders his dating prospects. "The vessel is simple, a rowboat among yachts," the poet observes in "Ukulele." "No one hides a Tommy gun in its case. / No bluesman runs over his uke in a whiskey rage." Beasley's voice is pithy and playful, with a ferocious intelligence that invites comparison to both Sylvia Plath and Dorothy Parker. In one of six signature sestinas, she warns, "You must not use a house to build a home, / and never look for poetry in poems." The collection’s centerpiece is a haunting sequence that engages The Traveler's Vade Mecum, an 1853 compendium of phrases for use by mail, telegraph, or the enigmatic “Instantaneous Letter Writer." Assembled over ten years and thousands of miles, these poems illuminate how intimacy is lost and gained during our travels. Decisive, funny, and as compassionate as she is merciless, Beasley is a reckoning force on the page.
Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0735214727
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
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Page : 742 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Nicolas Trübner
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Page : 738 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1859
Category : American literature
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Author : Nicolas Trübner
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Page : 744 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Nicolas Trübner
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Page : 748 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Nicolas Trübner
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Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 1859
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