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Series
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
1420L
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of hieroglyphic script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as crptography, the continuing decipherment into modern times, and examines the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today.
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
3rd edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 14 cm.
Language
English
Description
Get more from your trip with easy-to-find phrases for every travel situation. Afrikaans. Amharic. Arabic. French. Hausa. Malagasy. Portuguese. Shona. Swahili. Wolof. Xhosa. Yoruba. Zulu. Use our carefully selected words and phrases to get around with ease. Never get stuck for words with our quick reference dictionary for each language. Get equipped with essential phrases in a range of African languages from Afrikaans to Zulu. Lonely Planet phrasebooks...
Author
Series
Urban language volume 9
Pub. Date
1974
Physical Desc
xv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"It has now been almost fifty years since linguistic experts began studying Black English as a legitimate speech variety, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound "black." In his first book devoted solely to the form, structure, and development of Black English, John McWhorter clearly explains its fundamentals...