Stories
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Language
Our bodies convey stories through an alphabet of shrugs and shoulder poems. If your shoulders could talk, what poems would they tell?
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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Writing the language of music
The earliest surviving attempts to notate music date from the 10th century, and became increasingly precise and complex over the following millennium. Discover the visual beauty of music manuscripts through the ages, and how they help musicians interpret composers’ intentions.
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The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
Catalogue
- Books
The specter of the face : reading physiognomy, power, and the artist-figure in modern German-language prose works : Lavater - Chamisso - Mörike - Stifter - Th. Mann / by John L. Plews.
Plews, John L.Date: 2001- Books
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Fielding Derrida : philosophy, literary criticism, history, and the work of deconstruction / Joshua Kates.
Kates, JoshuaDate: [2008], ©2008- Books
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The limits of language / Stephen David Ross.
Ross, Stephen DavidDate: 1996- Books
Language, thought, and falsehood in ancient Greek philosophy / Nicholas Denyer.
Denyer, Nicholas.Date: 1991- Books
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The rebellious no : variations on a secular theology of language / Noëlle Vahanian.
Vahanian, Noëlle, 1969-Date: 2014