An original and profound reflection on the many uses of the language. For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted by the Humanists as the official language for schools and by the Catholic Church as the common liturgical language, it was the way in which millions of children were taught, people prayed to God, and scholars were educated. Francoise Waquet's history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries is a highly original and accessible exploration of the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted. It goes on to consider what this conferring of power and influence on Latin meant in practice. Among the questions Waquet investigates are: What privileges were, and are still, accorded to those who claim to have studied Latin? Can Latin as a subject for study be anything more than purely linguistic or does it reveal a far more complex heritage? Has Latin's deeply embedded cultural legacy already given way to a nostalgic exoticism? Latin: A Symbol's Empire is a valuable work of reference, but also an important piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire.

the only one-volume edition containing a full selection of poems, critical essays, political writing, letters

How language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn’t the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton s lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.

Schrijnende en onvergetelijke roman over Noord-Korea, die uw ogen zal openen, uw hart zal breken en het dan weer aaneensmeedt. 

Virtuoos familie-epos over de ondergang van de DDR

Vertaling van het 21e boek van "Ab urbe condita" van de Romeinse geschiedschrijver (59 v. Chr. - 17 n. Chr.)

This edition of the first book of Ovid's "Amores" was first published in 1973 by OUP. It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams' "Horace 'Odes' III", 1969) in which OUP pioneered a new kind of continuous running commentary particularly suited to short poems, one 'likely to be more illuminating than a series of disconnected notes on isolated problems, which may contribute little to the total understanding of the poem as the poet conceived it'. This approach was intended to promote in sixth-formers and undergraduates not just an understanding of the Latin but a critical appreciation of literary quality. In this aim, the edition has been a continued success.

Vierentwintig uur vol wederwaardigheden van twee gezinnen: de families van een parlementariër en van zijn beveiligingsagent.

Blauwe zomer' is het romandebuut van geboren verteller Leo Blokhuis, auteur van onder andere 'Grijsgedraaid' en 'Het Plaatjesboek' en presentator van de 'Top 2000 a gogo'. 00Eind jaren vijftig. Terwijl via Radio Luxemburg langzaam de rock-?n-roll ons land binnendruppelt, is Den Haag het centrum van feesten waar Indische jongeren op elektrische gitaren een mengeling van rock-?n-roll en traditionele krontjong spelen. Het is ook de plek waar twee achttienjarige jongens met totaal verschillende achtergronden voor een keuze komen te staan: een burgermansbestaan of het avontuur zoeken in de muziek.0De Nederlandse Johan wil het gelovige milieu van zijn ouders ontvluchten en vindt in zijn Indische vrienden en hun muziek een ongekende vrijheid. De in Indonesië geboren en naar Nederland gevluchte Chris wil het verleden van zich afschudden, maar botst tegen de harde, verzuilde Nederlandse mentaliteit.

Liedteksten met toelichtingen van de Nederlandse popzanger (1944- ).

Levensbeschrijvingen van de eerste twaalf Romeinse keizers door de Romeinse historicus (ca. 70-ca. 150).

Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context.

Een jonge Griekse vrouw trouwt met een oudere Duitse archeoloog die rond 1870 op onorthodoxe wijze opgravingen doet in Troje.

Zeven redevoeringen van de Oudgriekse redenaar (440-380 v. Chr.).

D. H. Lawrence, in full David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), was an English author of novels, poems, plays, short stories, essays and travel books. He is valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism, as well as one of the finest writers in English literature. His novels "Sons and Lovers" (1913), "The Rainbow" (1915), and "Women in Love" (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. Much is said of Lawrence's fiction, but many have forgotten about his remarkable travel writing. "Twilight in Italy" is a small book of travel essays, worth reading for the light they throw on the context of Lawrence's work. The novel takes us on a foot tour of the Alps all the way down into the Verdant Gardens and the sun-soaked plazas of Italy. Lawrence gives us small stories here and there that not only share a sense of place, but also relate the experience of a real traveler.

In 'Mijn moeders strijd' beschrijft Murat Isik de onvermoede emancipatiestrijd van zijn moeder Aynur, die geboren wordt in een conservatief dorp in Oost-Turkije en opgroeit in de kuststad Izmir. Ze verzet zich tegen haar achtergestelde positie als vrouw en probeert de regie over haar leven in eigen hand te nemen. Hoe moeilijk dat is, blijkt wanneer haar broer haar eerst zonder overleg tewerkstelt als huishoudelijke hulp en haar daarna tegen haar wil probeert uit te huwelijken. Aynur komt in opstand en trouwt een man met wie ze wél een toekomst voor zich ziet, maar het wordt een moeizaam huwelijk.0Begin jaren tachtig komt ze met haar gezin terecht in de Amsterdamse Bijlmer, waar ze sociaal geïsoleerd raakt. Tegen de verwachtingen in besluit Aynur zich te emanciperen, waardoor ze zich van de vrouwen in haar omgeving onder - scheidt. Waarom deed ze dat en welke obstakels moest ze daarbij overwinnen?0Uitgebreide editie.