In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the ""holy experiment."" Their belief in hidden yet persistent links between human language and the word of God impelled their vision of a common spiritual idiom. Translation became the search for underlying correspondences between diverse human expressions of the divine and served as a model for reconciliation and inclusiveness. Drawing on German and English archival sources, Erben examines iconic translations that engendered community in colonial Pennsylvania, including William Penn's translingual promotional literature, Francis Daniel Pastorius's multilingual poetics, Ephrata's ""angelic"" singing and transcendent calligraphy, the Moravians' polyglot missions, and the common language of suffering for peace among Quakers, Pietists, and Mennonites. By revealing a mystical quest for unity, Erben presents a compelling counternarrative to monolingualism and Enlightenment empiricism in eighteenth-century America.

I m Bilingual-Yo Soy Bilingue(r) As the world becomes more globalized, we and our children have an increasing need to communicate in more than one language. As a multilingual speaker, educator, and author of I m Bilingual-Yo Soy Bilingue, (r) Fred Loewenthal has recognized the need of becoming increasingly compelled to communicate in more than one language. Neither solely a dictionary nor a conventional textbook, this bilingual English-Spanish learning and reference book has been crafted to help English & Spanish speakers learn a second language to meet the increasing personal and professional need for multilanguage communications. I m Bilingual-Yo Soy Bilingue(r) is a practical, concise and comprehensive book that helps readers and students learn grammatical terms, glossaries, idiomatic expressions and every day expressions in both English and Spanish in an intuitive, person-to-person style regardless of which language is your native tongue. English glossaries include Human Anatomy, Basic Computer & Internet Terms, Main Fruits & Vegetables, Seafood & Fresh Water Fish, Vegetables, Aviation & Maritime Terms, Transportation, Retail Industry, Tourism & Entertainment, Sports and more. A medida que el mundo se globaliza, nosotros y nuestros hijos estamos obligados en comunicarnos en mas de un solo idioma. I m Bilingual-Yo Soy Bilingue es un libro practico, conciso y comprensivo que ayuda al usuario a aprender los terminos gramaticales, glosarios, expresiones idiomaticas y expresiones diarias en Ingles y en espanol de una manera intuitiva de persona-persona. El libro incluye extensos glosarios incluyendo anatomia humana, terminos basicos de computacion e internet, frutas y vegetales, peces de agua dulce y de mar, terminologia maritima y aerea, deportes, turismo, transportacion, conversiones liquida, volumen, peso, distancia y mas."

This book is a story of how symbols and the alphabet are used in mathematics and science. It covers a span of 4000+ years and is suitable for children of all ages. The book explores the evolution of written communications and explains how an evolving relationship between a boy and his grandfather is represented in symbols.