The second edition of A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE continues to examine the structure of language. The textbook discusses three important issues: languages and language change are systematic; the inner history of a language is profoundly affected by its outer history of political and culural events; and the English of the past has everywhere left its traces on present-day English. By uncovering the language's past, one can better communicate with it.
Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk released on May 1, 2007. The book became a national bestseller in May 2008 and remained on the list for 6 weeks.
Satyajit Ray's films include the "Apu" trilogy, "The Music Room", "Charulata", "Days and Nights in the Forest", "The Chess Players" and "The Stranger". He also made comedies, musicals, detective films and documentaries. Beginning with the classic "Pather Panchali" in 1955, Ray was an exceptionally versatile artist who won almost every major prize in cinema, including the Oscar for lifetime achievement just before his death in 1992.
A brilliant biography of a facinating figure from French history.
A reasonably short and easy listen biography of Catherine De Medici, the Italian daughter of the banking (non-aristo) family that became Queen of France during the start of the religious reformation and attempted to steer France through a turbulent accommodation between established Catholic institutions and the new protestant philosophies.
