Phaidon, 2015. — 640 p. From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily...
Gredos, 1975. — 600 p. — (Biblioteca románica hispánica: Tratados y monografías 15). Acaso extrañe que estos dos nutridos tomos sean considerados por su autor como un «manual». Es que —agregamos nosotros— se trata de un manual como debían serlo todos, o sea, de una síntesis original, y en él se recoge no sólo el estado actual de las investigaciones sobre el indo- europeo, sino...
Gredos, 1975. — 574 p. — (Biblioteca románica hispánica: Tratados y monografías 15). Acaso extrañe que estos dos nutridos tomos sean considerados por su autor como un «manual». Es que —agregamos nosotros— se trata de un manual como debían serlo todos, o sea, de una síntesis original, y en él se recoge no sólo el estado actual de las investigaciones sobre el indo- europeo, sino...
Gorgias Press, 2019. — 398 p. — (Gorgias Handbooks 43). The Syriac language is one of the classical tongues of early Christian thought, and, as such, garners a lot of interest particularly from theologians, historians, and culturologists. As an Aramaic dialect, it is also of considerable interest to scholars of Semitic languages. This manual is conceived as an academic one and...
Carocci, 2011. — 318 p. Rinnovato e ampliato in ogni sua parte, questo strumento per lo studio del greco antico ha tre destinatari preferenziali. Innanzitutto studenti che si avvicinano per la prima volta al greco nel corso degli studi universitari, e necessitano di apprenderne in modo rapido i fondamenti. In secondo luogo, studenti già in possesso di una conoscenza scolastica...
Hippocrene Books, 1994. — 322 p. This completely modern, up-to-date Kurdish-English\English-Kurdish dictionary provides a quick reference to the Northern dialect of Kurdish and English. Useful for travelers, business people, and students, the dictionary includes over 8,000 entries for both languages in a concise, easy-to-use format. Every entry provides a clear pronunciation...
2., völlig neu bearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage — Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 994 S. Die Standardsprache in Österreich, der Schweiz, Deutschland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Ostbelgien und Südtirol sowie Rumänien, Namibia und Mennonitensiedlungen Diese vollständig neu bearbeitete, erweiterte und aktualisierte zweite Auflage des Variantenwörterbuchs des Deutschen ist das Ergebnis...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. — 344 p. — (Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen 7). A decisive role played by the Dravidian component in the linguistic history of South Asia, makes the historical study of the Dravidian languages one of the primary tasks of modern South Asian linguistics. Information on the Dravidian language structure at the earliest...
Gorgias Press, 2007. — 474 p. — (Gorgias Historical Grammars 2.2). Arayathinal’s grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike.
Gorgias Press, 2007. — 163 p. — (Gorgias Historical Grammars 2.3). Arayathinal’s grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike.
Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, 1992. — 300 p. Howard I. Aronson - On the marking of O 3 in Georgian John Colarusso - Phyletic links between proto-Indo-European and proto-Northwest Caucasian Bernard Comrie - Focus in Yukaghir (Tundra dialect) Bill J. Darden - On the syntax of Lithuanian participles Michael Dobrovolsky - Towards a lexical phonology of Chuvash:...
Hippocrene Books, 1999. — 195 p. Igbo, also known as Ibo, is one of the major languages of Nigeria. This dictionary and phrasebook contains an introduction to basic grammar, over 5,000 vocabulary entries and helpful phrases, arranged in 34 sections, each of which deals with aspects of everyday life.
Penguin Books, 1988. — 412 p. — (The Pelican History of Art). The appreciation of early Christian and Byzantine Art as a sublime expression of religious thought and feeling is a comparatively modern phenomenon. Byzantine art is both static and dynamic: static in the sense that once an image was established it was felt that no improvement was necessary; dynamic in the sense that...
H. Aschehoug & co., 1946. — 327 p. Knut Bergsland (7. mars 1914 – 9. juli 1998) var ein norsk språkforskar og var professor i fennougristikk ved Universitetet i Oslo frå 1947 til 1981. Avhandlinga hans, Røroslappisk grammatikk (1946), ein studie i glossematikk med sørsamisk som eksempelspråk, er framleis referansegrammatikken over sørsamisk. Bergsland sjølv deltok heller ikkje...
Abbeville Press, 1996. — 251 p. A complete handbook revealing the secrets of the hieroglyphic writing of the Nile Valley, which provides a still-vivid snapshot of the gods, the people, and the everyday life of the Ancient Egyptians. Both literal and highly lyrical, hieroglyphics bring alive a distant world, with descriptions of the natural environment, the art, the society, the...
Austin Macauley Publishers, 2014. — 282 p. Buddhism, which originated in India in the sixth century BC, faded into near oblivion by the thirteenth century. However, it spread to other countries in Asia, and along with it, Buddhist art. Like many other religions, Buddhism found expression in the art and architecture of the various cultures it touched. Tracing the Indian...
Thames and Hudson, 1997. — 252 p. Athenian black figure vases bear the work of consummate artists, like Exekias, who depicted on them scenes of myth and everyday life which deepen our knowledge and understanding of Greek antiquity. In this survey, Professor John Boardman enables the reader to study the many aspects of the vases, and to grasp the essential style of a painter or...
Thames and Hudson, 1978. — 252 p. For most people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancient art to break free from conceptual conventions for representing men and animals, and to explore consciously how art might imitate or even improve upon it. The first stages of this discovery, from the semi-abstract beginnings...
Routledge, 1997. — 424 p. Maltese, the national language of the island of Malta, is the only Semitic language of Europe, spoken by almost 400,000 people. Focusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remained undefined, especially syntax and intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese as the influence...
Rizzoli, 1988. — 400 p. Covers the turn-of-the-century Russian Art Nouveau movement, detailing its influences on the fine arts as well as on architecture, and includes biographies of fifty important Russian designers of the period.
Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, 2010. — 345 s. Słownik etymologiczny kaszubszczyzny jest słownikiem dyferencjalnym w stosunku do języka ogólnopolskiego. Zawiera więc przede wszystkim tak zwane kaszubizmy leksykalne, na które składają się liczne archaizmy (niejednokrotnie zresztą znane również staropolszczyźnie), równie liczne twory innowacyjne, a także wybrane zapożyczenia...
Phaidon Press, 1973. — 530 p. This book familiarizes the reader with all the aspects of prehistory and early history in the Aegean and Cyprus. It tells of shrines, domestic and defensive architecture, citadels, palaces, and private houses, of burial customs and of tombs; it includes implements and weapons of stone, clay, bone, horn, and metal. With its considerable variants,...
Dover Publications, 2012. — 593 p. Twenty Egyptian texts — dating from c. 2400 BC to 250 BC — on historical, religious, funereal, other topics printed in hieroglyphics together with transliterations and a complete vocabulary. Also included are full English translations of 8 of the texts. "The Tale of Two Brothers," "The Possessed Princess of Bekhten," many more.
World Wisdom, 2006. — 130 p. This illustrated work takes the reader on a pilgrimage through the history of Christian art, focusing upon its architecture, iconography, illumination, and the arts and crafts guilds, but always returning to the fundamental genius of Christianity, which gave meaning to the art.
Walter de Gruyter, 2007. — 578 S. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 28.2). Phraseology includes the whole area of more or less "fixed" combinations of words on up to formulaic sentences and texts. While systematic research on phraseology goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, broad-based international research only began to develop in the 70’s,...
Ernest Leroux, 1930. — 128 p. Il existe un nombre assez considérable d'inscriptions sur pierre, rédigées en langue araméenne, au moyen d'une écriture spéciale, d'aspect semi-cursif. On les appelle inscriptions nabatéennes, car la plupart d'entre elles sont l'oeuvre des Nabatéens, population d'origine arabe, constituée en royaume sur les confins de la Judée et de la Syrie, au...
Hippocrene Books, 2012. — 316 p. Cantonese is an official language of Hong Kong and Macau, and the dominant dialect of Chinese spoken in the province of Guangdong. Spoken by nearly 60 million people worldwide, it is understood by much of the Chinese diaspora population across the world and rivals Mandarin as the lingua franca of south China and ethnic Chinese living abroad....
Università di Firenze, 2012. — 250 p. — (Quaderni di semitistica 29). Grammatica della lingua di Ebla attestata nelle tavolette cuneiformi del XXIV sec. a.C., trovate a Tell Mardikh (Siria), con ampia e particolareggiata discussione del sillabario, della fonologia e della morfologia e con indice comprensivo di tutti i termini analizzati.
Parkstone International, 2012. — 200 p. Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that developed all across Europe for more than 200 years. Leaving Roman roundish forms behind, the architects started using flying buttress and pointed arches to open cathedrals to the daylight. Period of great...
Editions du Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique, 1988. — 327 p. — (Les Langues dans le monde ancien et moderne 3). A vee la publication de ce volume consacre aux langues chamito-semitiques se poursuit le programme inaugure par Ia parution en 1981 du volume relatif aux langues de I'Afrique subsaharienne et aux pidgins et creoles. L'entreprise qu'a assumee le C.N.R.S....
Alianza Editorial, 2001. — 247 p. Le intriga la escritura jeroglífica del antiguo Egipto? Ha deseado alguna vez poder entenderla? Ahora puede. Con la ayuda de esta práctica guía para autodidactas, podrá profundizar en el conocimiento de la lengua y la cultura del Egipto antiguo. Basándose en los textos que acompañan a una selección de inscripciones funerarias, sarcófagos y...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 236 p. These essays on abstract painting by eleven of its most incisive critics trace the development of such critical issues as hard-edge painting, deductive and serial structure, monochrome abstraction, the psychological analogy, regionalism, and the "death of painting" in Postmodernism. The introduction and commentary by Frances Colpitt...
Cornell University Press, 2003. — 265 p. From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl—across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used architecture to project unity, identity, and power. Church architecture has inspired national...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008. — xiii, 825 p. — (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7). — ISBN 978 90 04 16797 1. Latin is one of the major ancient Indo-European languages and one of the cornerstones of Indo-European studies. Since the last comprehensive etymological dictionary of Latin appeared in 1959, enormous progress has been made in the reconstruction of...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2019. — 807 p. Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 264 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 657). This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family:...
Benedikt Taschen, 1994. — 100 p. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi: éste era el nombre oficial del pintor Sandro Botticelli. El nombre de Alessandro se reduciría, con el tiempo, al diminutivo Sandro, mientras que "Botticelli" era el apodo de su hermano mayor, Giovanni, cuya obesidad hizo que se quedara con este mote de "tonelete". El nombre llegaría a adquirir tal carta...
Shuter & Shooter, 1995. — 538 p. An English-Zulu/Zulu-English dictionary intended for those who find more comprehensive dictionaries too cumbersome or too detailed for their needs.
Frederick Ungar, 1943. — 2592 p. Represents pictorially more than 10,250 different expressions (about 30,000 homonyms and synonyms), taken from the vocabularies of various callings and from the language of everyday life.
Rüdiger Köppe, 2012. — 229 p. — (Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung/Research in Khoisan studies 27). Sandawe is the first language of around 40,000 people who live in the Dodoma province of Tanzania. This language is notable for being one of three in East Africa with click consonants as part of their regular consonant inventory. Sandawe’s affiliation is not satisfyingly defined, but...
Ibadan University Press, 1987. — 263 p. The principal language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria with some 44 million speakers. Igbo is a tonal Niger-Congo language with two distinctive tones, high and low.
Oxford University Press, 1968. — 383 p. — (London oriental series 20). The grammatical studies here presented to the public, by contributing to the advancement of the knowledge of Khotanese, a language of the Sakas, add to what is known in the wider field of Indo-Iranian studies, of which Khotanese is an important but comparatively little-known part. Khotanese, especially the...
Akademie-Verlag, 1982. — 572 S. Das größte und am häufigsten zitierte Projekt zur Erstellung eines vollständigen Wörterbuchs der altägyptischen Sprache. Die Autoren sind die deutschen Ägyptologen Adolf Erman (1854-1937) und Hermann Grapow (1885-1967).
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 359 p. Palaces like the Aljafer a and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at C rdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the origin and development of Islamic palatial architecture, particularly in the Western Mediterranean region. This...
Ulrico Hoepli, 2021. — 272 p. La Grammatica d’uso della lingua portoghese A1-A2 è un manuale di facile utilizzo per l’apprendimento della lingua nella sua variante europea, pensato sia come supporto al libro di testo in aula sia come strumento per lo studio autonomo. Il testo, strutturato in 100 unità disposte in sequenza progressiva per affrontare le regole grammaticali di...
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1967. — 368 p. This book shows you how to see modern art. In straightforward, plain language, George A. Flanagan takes you through the fascinating history of modern art, beginning with Cezanne and Van Gogh. Mr. Flanagan clearly explains how the painters develop their intuitions on canvas, and why. When this is understood, the pictures themselves lose...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 266 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 667). Kopar is a very moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This is the only description of the language available. It also discusses areas where rapid language shift is affecting the structure of Kopar. Although the period of fieldwork was...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 408 p. "A grand tour of the world's great tattoos"--Atlas Obscura "This book--part global art historical tome, part coffee-table book of visual wonders--is a valuable corrective to many silly things that we assume about tattooing."--The New Republic A lavishly illustrated global exploration of the vast array of styles and most significant...