The Ancestor's Tale

The Ancestor's Tale
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780618619160

A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.

The World Through Picture Books

The World Through Picture Books
Author: IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release:
Genre: Collection development (Libraries)
ISBN: 9789077897805

"The World Through Picture Books (WTPB) is a programme of the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section in collaboration with IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Children's Librarians all over the world understand how important picture books in both traditional and digital formats are for children, for their development, cultural identity and as a springboard into learning to read for themselves. The idea behind the World Through Picture Books was to create a selection of picture books from around the world that have been recommended by librarians, as a way of celebrating and promoting the languages, cultures and quality of children's book publishing globally. The 3rd edition highlights 530 picture books, from 57 countries and featuring 37 languages. It is fully digital and the catalogue as well as a poster and bookmark can be downloaded free of charge." --

Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians
Author: Woislav M. Petrovitch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1914
Genre: Folk literature, Serbian
ISBN:

A collection of Serbian folk tales preceded by background to the history and cultural traditions of the Slavic people, including short essays on good and evil spirits, vampires, superstition, Christmas Eve, wedding rites, etc.

Links in the Chain of Life

Links in the Chain of Life
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This book tells how Baroness Orczy creates the fictitious character of the Scarlet Pimpernel. In this book, Baroness Orczy explores how she creates the character of Scarlet Pimpernel, the other characters, and the story world. The author, in this book, links the creation of the character of the Pimpernel to her love for Britain.

Trigger Happy

Trigger Happy
Author: Steven Poole
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781559705981

Examines the history and phenomenal success of video games, and argues that the popular games are on the way to becoming a legitimate art form, much in the same way movies did a century earlier.

Elements of Structural Syntax

Elements of Structural Syntax
Author: Lucien Tesnière
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269998

This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages, an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern study of syntax and grammar. This stream is known today as dependency grammar (DG). Drawing examples from dozens of languages, many of which he was proficient in, Tesnière presents insightful analyses of numerous phenomena of syntax. Among the highlights are the concepts of valency and head-initial vs. head-final languages. These concepts are now taken for granted by most modern theories of syntax, even by phrase structure grammars, which represent, in a sense, the opposite sort of approach to syntax from what Tesnière was advocating. Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.

Children’s Literature in Translation

Children’s Literature in Translation
Author: Jan Van Coillie
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9462702225

For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated: what contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.

Our Little Norman Cousin of Long Ago (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Our Little Norman Cousin of Long Ago (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Author: Evaleen Stein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781409916949

Evaleen Stein (1863-1923) was an American poet and author of books for children at the beginning of the twentieth-century. Her works include: Gabriel and the Hour Book (1906), Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago (1913), The Christmas Porringer (1914), Our Little Norman Cousin of Long Ago (1915), Our Little Frankish Cousin of Long Ago (1917), Child Songs of Cheer (1918), Our Little Crusader Cousin of Long Ago (1921) and Pepin (1924).