Springer, 1976. — 637 p. Thirteen of the chapters that comprise the contents of this first volume of Native Languages of the A mericas were originally commissioned by the undersigned in his capacity as Editor of the fourteen volume series (1963-1976), Current Trends in Linguistics. All appeared, in 1973, under Part Three of the quadripartite Vol. 10, subtitled Linguistics in...
Springer, 1977. — 540 p. The publishing history of the eleven chapters that comprise the contents of this second volume of Native Languages of the Americas is rather different from that of the thirteen that appeared in Volume I of this twin set late last year. Original ver sions of five articles, respectively, by Barthel, Grimes, Longacre, Mayers, and Suarez, were first...
Academy Editions, 1992. — 156p. Art Nouveau's evocative appeal is in many ways as fresh today as when it dominated the European art scene at the turn of the 20th century. In this work, photographer and architecture critic Junichi Shimomura explores his premise that some of the most striking forms of Art Nouveau were realized in residential architecture. Antonio Gaudi's Casa...
Pindar Press, 1987. — 530 p. Civilizations of great diversity have succeeded each other or co-existed in Eastern Turkey, and most of them have left monuments of high quality. Hittite, Urartian, Hellenistic, Roman, Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Arab, Seljuk and Ottoman, their remains are all represented in the region. These include some of the most important sites in Near Eastern...
Pindar Press, 1989. — 578 p. This second volume continues with a description of the fine Georgian monuments of the Tao region, including Ihan, Ök Vank, and Haho. The Pontus region comes next, the centre of the medieval Greek empire of Trebizond. The many Byzantine churches of Trabzon itself are covered, including Aya Sofya and the nearby monasteries of Sumela and Vazelon. The...
DK, 2021. — 401 p. Encompassing 3,000 years and 31 Egyptian dynasties, from the time of Narmer to Cleopatra, this fresh appraisal of ancient treasures helps you navigate the political intrigues and cultural achievements of the Ancient Egyptians, from the Pyramids and the Sphinx of Giza to the Great Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria. You'll meet pharaohs such as King...
Independently published, 2019. — 148 p. Learn Bulgarian Vocabulary the Fun Way with Word Search Puzzles! Learn Bulgarian with Word Search Puzzles is a HUGE collection of 130 bilingual English-Bulgarian word search puzzles that will challenge you with dozens of interesting categories. Learning a new language can be both challenging and rewarding. This book provides puzzle based...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 287 p. This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD. John Stamper analyzes the temples' formal qualities, the public spaces in which they were located and, most importantly, the authority of precedent in...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. — 234 S. — (SILO - Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis 4.1). Mit Grammatik und Chrestomathie des Sabaischen (SILO 4,1 und 4,2) legt Peter Stein ein Lehrwerk dieser altsüdarabischen Sprache vor, das nicht nur die Grammatik auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand prasentiert, sondern mit einer sorgfältigen Auswahl sabäischer Inschriften zugleich...
L'Harmattan, 2007. — 209 p. Le romanche, parlé dans le canton helvétique des Grisons, est aujourd'hui la quatrième langue officielle de la Suisse. En 1982 a été créé par le Prof. Dr Heinrich Schmid, de l'université de Zurich, le "romanche grison (rumantsch grischun), forme suprarégionale issue des cinq parlers existants. Cette forme est devenue aujourd'hui langue "officielle"....
Annamalai University, 1983. — 501 p. — (Annamalai University Publication: Department of Linguistics 74). Dr. P.S. Subrahmanyam’s book Dravidian Comparative Phonology is a welcome addition to our ever increasing scienti- fic literature on Comparative Dravidian. Since Zvelebil’s Comparative Dravidian Phonology (1970), there have appeared a large number of publications bearing on...
University of California Press, 2018. — 353 p. Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related topics, but as a continuous story. With updated attributions and dating...
Lincom Europa, 2003. — 281 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 92). Dargwa is a language (or a cluster of closely related languages) belonging to the Nakh-Daghestanian language group. Most of its speakers live in the Republic of Daghestan in the North Caucasus (Russian Federation). Icari is the variety of Dargwa spoken by the people of the village of Icari and by its former...
Aarhus University Press, 1992. — 352 S. — (Acta Jutlandica LXVIII: Humanistische Reihe 67). Text in German and Albanian. The Slavonic immigration to the Balkans in the sixth to eighth century meant that the entire Northern Peninsula became Slavonic speaking. Since World War II the work of Albanian scholars has made it possible to trace hitherto unobserved Slavonic loan words in...
Clarendon Press, 1981. — 248 p. This dictionary was undertaken at the request of the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, who, feeling the want of an abridgement of the large Anglo-Saxon dictionary (BT) still in progress, applied to me. From a variety of reasons I felt myself obliged to undertake the work. As the book was wanted as soon as possible, with a view to forestalling...
University of Texas Press, 1993. — 765 p. The Alabama language, a member of the Muskogean language family, is spoken today by the several hundred inhabitants of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Polk County, Texas. This dictionary of Alabama was begun over fifty years ago by tribe member Cora Sylestine. She was aided after 1980 by linguists Heather K. Hardy and...
Clarendon Press, 1996. — 388 p. This work was conceived by the publishers as an introduction to comparative Indo-European linguistics, and the author has carried out their intention to the best of his ability. The introductory chapters 1-3 are of a more general nature, but the main part provides a comparative phonology and morphology of the Indo-European languages. In the...
Hippocrene Books, 1999. — 388 p. — (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary). Perfect for students or travelers, this dictionary has over 10,000 entries in a concise and easy-to-use format. Gender of Icelandic nouns are given and lists of English irregular plurals and verbs are provided.
Hippocrene Books, 1997. — 324 p. — (Hippocrene Compact Dictionary). This Bulgarian-English English-Bulgarian Dictionary is addressed to business people, travelers and students. It contains over 8,000 entries in Bulgarian and English.
Hippocrene Books, 2011. — 316 p. — (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary). Bengali, the official language of Bangladesh and India's West Bengal, is the sixth most-spoken language in the world. With current vocabulary and usage, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive two-way Bengali dictionary available. It contains more than 13,000 total entries, each with transliteration,...
Cornell University Press, 1973. — 436 p. — (Aspects of Greek and Roman life 3). Animals in Roman Life and Art explores animals in Roman iconography, Roman knowledgeboth factual and fancifulabout various fauna, and Roman use of animals for food, clothing, transport, war, entertainment, religious ceremony, and companionship. Arranged by species, J. M. C. Toynbee's magisterial...
Zaphon, 2020. — 276 S. Das vorliegende „Lehrbuch der ugaritischen Sprache“ (LUS) bietet eine vollständige Grammatik, kommentierte Übungstexte und ein Glossar. Es beruht in seinen Grundzügen auf J. Tropper, „Ugaritisch. Kurzgefasste Grammatik mit Übungen und Glossar“ (2002). Zugleich unterscheidet es sich von diesem in vielen Punkten: Hinzugefügt worden ist eine neue Einleitung,...
Rizzoli, 2017. — 295 p. One of the most important and authoritative books to celebrate mosque architecture and Islamic design, featuring many exquisite newly commissioned photographs. This visually striking volume illustrates over sixty of the most venerated mosques from historic monuments such as the Great Mosque of Córdoba and Istanbul’s Süleymaniye Mosque to today’s most...
Hippocrene Books, 2009. — 396 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series). Beginner's Serbian is designed for both classroom use and self-study. Each of the 15 lessons includes a dialogue about an everyday topic, vocabulary lists, explanations of grammar, and exercises. It a brief introduction to Serbian history and culture; fifteen practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and...
Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1988. — 324 s. Eski Türkçe'nin Grameri ( Alttürkische Grammatik) ilk defa 1941 yılında yayımlanmıştı. Bu tercüme, onun 1974'te yayımlanan üçüncü baskısından yapıldı. Aradan uzun yıllar geçmiş olmasına rağmen eser hâlâ başvuru kitabı niteliğini korumaktadır. Tercümenin, eserin aslına ulaşamayanlar ve Almanca bilmeyenlere faydalı olacağını umuyorum....
Helmut Buske, 2005. — 364 S. Die Bantusprache Swahili oder Suaheli (Eigenbezeichnung Kiswahili) ist die bedeutendste Sprache Ostafrikas. In Tansania, Kenia, Uganda sowie in angrenzenden Gebieten der Nachbarstaaten wird sie von über 80 Millionen Menschen gesprochen. Für Lernende ohne Vorkenntnisse konzipiert, ermöglicht dieses Lehrbuch ein systematisches und praxisorientiertes...
Scottish Academic Press, 1981. — 168 p. Part I: General introduction and background to hieroglyphic writing in Egypt and to the principles of picture writing Part II: Grammar, exercises and vocabularies
The American University in Cairo Press, 2000. — 132 p. The result of twenty years of work, the Atlas of the Valley of the Kings provides the first detailed surveyed maps and plans ever produced of one of the most famous World Heritage sites. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the recently-discovered tomb of the sons of Ramesses II, all of the significant and accessible tombs in...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. — 354 S. — (Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 67). Nach der Beschreibung der Jenissej-Sprachen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts wendet sich der Verfasser nun den sechs belegten Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts zu, dem Arinischen, Assanischen, Jugischen, Ketischen, Kottischen und Pumpokolischen. Die im 18. Jahrhundert aufgezeichneten...
Rubicon Press, 1998. — 206 p. The first English language book to go beyond the identification and classification of ancient Egyptian plants to discuss the gardens and gardeners of ancient Egypt. The book focuses on garden design, as evidenced by archaeological remains, written documentation on stone and papyrus, and visualisation in models and paintings. It covers the entire...
Penguin Books, 1958. — 456 p. Chinese Art attempts to relate the traditional art-forms of China to the social, political, and technological conditions out of which they arose. Each art-form has a chapter of its own, where it is discussed in the context of a particular historical epoch during which, for one reason or another, it reached an especially characteristic stage of...
Taschen, 2000. — 243 p. When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaud? and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 490 p. — (Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten 72.1). The Luwian language belongs to the Anatolian group of the Indo-European language family and thus constitutes a close relative of Hittite. As a rule, the Luwian cuneiform passages represent incantations embedded in Hittite religious texts. Although their full corpus was published in the twentieth...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994. — 340 S. — (Historische Sprachforschung (Historical Linguistics); Ergänzungshefte 36). Die vorliegende Arbeit über die altirischen Ogaminschriften widmet sich einem Thema aus dem Gebiet der indogermanischen und keltischen Sprachwissenschaft, das bisher wenig beachtet und bearbeitet worden ist. Die Ogaminschriften sind die ältesten uns bekannten...
Peeters, 2010. — 396 p. Een praktische inleiding in de egyptische taal en het hiërogliefenschrift gebaseerd op een selectie van teksten. Deel I: Grammatica, oefeningen en selectie van teksten. Deel II: Hulpmiddelen (Selectieve tekenlijst, woordenlijsten, indexen, oplossingen van de oefeningen, transliteratie en vertaling van de tekstselectie). Dit handboek is een inleiding in...
Gaberoff, 1998. — 1184 с. Речникът включва около 90 000 думи, които представляват най-важната част от лексиката на съвременния български книжовен език , както и основните думи от различни специални области на науката и техниката, за което са използвани “Речник на чуждите думи в български” второ издание - 1997 г. от Иван Габеров, и “Съвременен тълковен речник на българския език”...
Наука и изкуство, 1965. — 755 с. Книгата обхваща творчеството на българските художници от средата на XVIII век до Освобождението на България и дава изчерпателна представа за нашето възрожденско изкуство и неговите създатели, живели и творили в този период. В книгата е проследена дейността на майсторите от Тревненската, Дебърската, Самоковската и Банската художествена школа,...
Наука и изкуство, 1965. — 755 с. Книгата обхваща творчеството на българските художници от средата на XVIII век до Освобождението на България и дава изчерпателна представа за нашето възрожденско изкуство и неговите създатели, живели и творили в този период. В книгата е проследена дейността на майсторите от Тревненската, Дебърската, Самоковската и Банската художествена школа,...
М.: Искусство, 1985. — 262 с. Первая часть этой книги написана известным советским искусствоведом, профессором Московского государственного университета имени М. В. Ломоносова Всеволодом Владимировичем Павловым. В. Β. Павлов – автор многих книг по истории искусства Древнего Египта. Всю свою жизнь В. В. Павлов посвятил изучению и публикации памятников собрания Государственного...
Новосибирск, 2022. — 502 с. — (Египетские тексты 18). Данный том посвящен источникам по истории египетского государства в эллинистический период, в первую очередь постановлениям фараонов и решениям собраний жрецов, напрямую связанным с происходившими в стране событиями. Последний тип документов существовал только при династии Птолемеев, в одной работе собраны все сохранившиеся...
Langenscheidt, 2008. — 256 S. Sprachenlernen mit System: Die vollständige Neubearbeitung des klassischen Langenscheidt-Sprachkurses für Selbstlerner führt zuverlässig zum Lernerfolg.
Helmut Buske, 2021. — 192 S. Dieser praktische Sprachreiseführer bietet allen, die vorhaben, Georgien zu besuchen oder sich dort länger aufzuhalten, die Möglichkeit, sich während ihres Aufenthaltes auch ohne profunde Sprachkenntnisse verständigen zu können und die Besonderheiten des Landes von Beginn an zu verstehen. Der Fokus liegt auf der Kommunikation mit Einheimischen und...
Helmut Buske, 2017. — 384 S. In 24 Haupt- und 111 Unterkapiteln wird der Wortschatz des modernen Lebens nach Wortfamilien sortiert sowie umfassend und benutzerfreundlich präsentiert. Die rund 9.000 Wörter und Wendungen bzw. Anwendungsbeispiele sind nach einer Auswertung aller deutschsprachigen Schwedischlehrwerke zusammengestellt worden; zudem wurde der in den...
Carta Jerusalem, 2002. — 232 p. This fourth edition of the best-selling The Macmillan Bible Atlas brings the latest findings of biblical, historical, and archaeological research to its sweeping cartographic portrayal of biblical history. settlement and mass migrations of populations skirmishes, battles, and conquests described in the Bible economic developments, trade routes,...
L'Harmattan, 2010. — 296 p. Dans le souci de perpétuer et de transmettre la culture et la langue fang aux générations futures, cet ouvrage est une modeste contribution de sa grammaire, son vocabulaire et ses expressions courantes. Il ne prétend aucunement faire la synthèse de tout le vocabulaire fang, néanmoins, il peut se prévaloir d'être un manuel pratique et utile à...
Crown Publishers, 1968. — 266 p. Particular aspects of the problem of the relation between early Greek art and the civilizations of the ancient Near East have engaged the attention of many scholars over a period of several generations. But only two monographs exist that treat the problem as a whole. The first general survey came from the pen of the Danish scholar Frederik...
Brill, 2019. — 167 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 98). This is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Safaitic inscriptions, comprising more than 1400 lemmata and 1500 lexical items. The dictionary includes a lengthy introduction to the inscriptions as well an outline of various aspects of the Safaitic writing tradition.
MHGA, 2019. — 119 p. I first compiled this manual in 2014 to teach the Historical Grammar of Arabic at the Leiden Linguistics Summer School. I have since continued to update it with new material and insights, and have used various iterations to teach my classes at Leiden University and again at the Leiden Linguistics Summer School, the second time with Dr. Marijn van Putten....
Yale University Press, 1996. — 198 p. Tiepolo is a brilliant example of the specifically pictorial intelligence. This book is both a study of his art and an argument for fuller recognition of the peculiarities of the painter's representational medium. Alpers and Baxandall locate distinctive modes of Tiepolo's representation of the world and human action; follow his process of...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1990. — 743 p. The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. The present book, fourth in the popular series, chronicles...