Oxford University Press, 1999. — 371 p. Dieter Arnold (b. 1936) is a renowned German archaeologist and Egyptologist, a member of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (conducted important excavations in Dahshur and Deir el Bahri), a professor at the University of Vienna, curator of the Egyptian collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. A well-known connoisseur...
Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, 1989. — 310 p. The papers in this volume were originally presented in abbreviated and, often, in preliminary form at the Fifth International Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the USSR, held at the University of Chicago in May, 1987. There are a number of people who have helped greatly in the processes leading to the...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. — 283 p. Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid...
Hippocrene Books, 2022. — 714 p. Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is an official language. It is spoken by over 40 million people worldwide. The government of Myanmar designates it as the Myanmar language, but most English speakers continue to refer to the language as Burmese, after Burma, the former name of Myanmar. The Burmese alphabet is derived...
Hippocrene Books, 1999. — 196 p. Igbo, also known as ibo, is one of the major languages of Nigeria. This guide contains an introduction to basic grammar, two-way dictionary, and helpful phrases arranged in 34 sections, each of which deals with aspects of everyday life. Also includes cultural information and a brief history of the Igbo people.
Gorgias Press, 2010. — 249 p. — (Abrohom Nuro Library 9). This is a thorough academic tutorial of the Syriac language beginning with its history and ending with the learning of the language itself.
University of California Press, 1968. — 548 p. The Egyptian Alexander Badawi (1913-1986) was one of the few sons of the country of the pyramids who not only managed to devote himself to the study of the past of his homeland, but also left a noticeable mark on the development of Western Egyptology. For many years he was the head of the department at the University of California,...
Pubjabi University, 2003. — 129 p. This introductory text in Punjabi (also spelled Panjabi) is intended primarily for those whose mother tongue is not Punjabi but are native speakers of other Indian languages. Some familiarity with the Punjabi cultural items is presupposed. The non-Indian may, however, also be able to use this text with profit since the lessons are graded. The...
Aris & Phillips, 1983. — 160 p. — (An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Egyptian Language 2). A collection of commentaries on various aspects of the Late Egyptian language (c. 1350-700 BC).
UTET Università, 2008. — 215 p. — (Le Lingue di Babele). Spesso si è indicato come anello mancante fra ricerca teorica e azione in classe una riflessione scientificamente fondata, ma altrettanto pragmaticamente orientata, sulle tecniche didattiche che realizzano l'educazione linguistica. "Fare educazione linguistica" è il trait d'union di queste due dimensioni: quella della...
Thames and Hudson, 1970. — 442 p. The volume deals with Roman art in the center of power, that is, in Rome itself. All Roman art arises from an intellectualistic encounter with Greek art on a new social basis and not as an expression of a deep sentiment rooted in the spirit of determined social groups. Therefore his character was immediately eclectic, and he could immediately...
Hazan, 2005. — 384 p. Bien que relevant encore du Moyen Age, le XIVe siècle connaît une première affirmation de l'artiste de cour, tels Jean Pucelle, Claus Sluter, Simone Martini, comme de l'artiste des cités florissantes d'Allemagne ou d'Italie, alors soucieuses d'embellissements, comme Giotto, Ambrogio Lorenzetti ou Andrea Pisano. Installés à l'intérieur des cités, les...
Blackwell Publishing, 2007. — 437 p. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt is a comprehensive overview of Egyptian archaeology skillfully organized to guide the reader from Egypt’s prehistoric past through the pharaonic dynasties and the Greco-Roman Period. Provides an unprecedented introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt and its culture, monuments, and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 240 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 95). This study describes the language called Kristang or Malacca Creole Portuguese, spoken in Malacca, West Malaysia. It focuses on the main structures of the grammar of Kristang as spoken by con servative speakers and includes an outline of the...
Parkstone International, 2014. — 200 p. For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 CE until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that is only beginning to be rediscovered. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern, and Christian cultures, Byzantine artists developed an architectural and pictorial tradition, marked by...
Eisenbrauns, 2000. — 514 p. The Hebrew language comes down to us in several dialects, each ethnic community having its own unique tradition of pronunciation. The author examines whether the Samaritans carefully maintained their language heritage, as they did their observance of tradition, preserving it from the time when they spoke Hebrew. This work presents a detailed analysis...
University of California Press, 2003. — 376 p. Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 340 p. — (Oxford history of art). This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such...
Universidad de Zaragoza, 2006. — 387 p. — (Monografías de filología griega 18). Este libro pretende ser un instrumento de trabajo para el aprendizaje del griego micénico al tiempo que una herramienta para la consulta de textos en lineal B. Trata de llenar un vacío en la bibliografía actual sobre el tema, ofreciendo un libro básico para introducirse en la cuestión a estudiantes...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2007. — 249 p. This textbook is a compilation of the authors more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to the Bronze Age art objects and architecture that...
Phaidon Press, 1969. — 104 p. No work of art can be completely understood unless we know how it was created. Hence an unfinished painting or sculpture often shows revealing features which are lost in the finished work. Antique statues are almost incomprehensible to us in their technique because the greatest effects are here achieved by the smallest means. The present text...
University of South Africa, 1995 . — 480 p. The dissertation from the University of South Africa in Pretoria is a systematic study of the ancient Egyptian language during the XIX dynasty - the era of the Ramesses. During this period, gradual but historically rapid and irreversible changes took place in the structure of language: both syntax and semantics. The classical ancient...
Penguin, 1957. — 536 p. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the palace of Versailles, the paintings of Poussin and Claude. and the sculpture of Coysevox, which echo the political and cultural importance of France and the "Sun King". Anthony Blunt presents major artists...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — 852 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 602). This is the first single-authored book that attempts to describe the Austronesian language family in its entirety. It includes chapters or chapter sections on: the physical and cultural background in which these languages are embedded, official and...
Thames & Hudson, 1998. — 287 p. — (World of Art). This book completes John Boardman's study of Greek vase painting in the World of Art. The author demonstrates that all the components of Greek art that were to culminate in the Classical styles of the fifth century can be traced in the development of vase painting in early Greece, from the eleventh to the sixth centuries B.C....
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 870 p. This edition contains many corrections and updates. New material and references have been added to take into consideration the latest scholarship, and new sections have been added to several chapters as well. Chapter 7, A Sketch of Proto-Afrasian Phonology, has been reformatted and greatly expanded. I have added one new etymology, and...
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 634 p. In comparing the lexical material from the various Nostratic daughter languages, I have tried to be very careful about the issue of semantic plausibility. Where there is either a one-to-one or an extremely close semantic correspondence, there is, of course, no problem. Unfortunately, things are not always this straightforward. Quite...
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 635 p. In comparing the lexical material from the various Nostratic daughter languages, I have tried to be very careful about the issue of semantic plausibility. Where there is either a one-to-one or an extremely close semantic correspondence, there is, of course, no problem. Unfortunately, things are not always this straightforward. Quite...
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 979 p. In comparing the lexical material from the various Nostratic daughter languages, I have tried to be very careful about the issue of semantic plausibility. Where there is either a one-to-one or an extremely close semantic correspondence, there is, of course, no problem. Unfortunately, things are not always this straightforward. Quite...
5th edition. — Florence, SC, 2023. — 337 p. This Nostratic Etymological Index contains all of the Proto-Nostratic roots and their derived verbal and nominal forms cited in the second and third volumes (Part Three: Comparative Vocabulary) of the fifth revised, corrected, and expanded edition of my book A Comprehensive Introduction to Nostratic Comparative Linguistics (published...
Hippocrene Books, 2001. — 188 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series). This popular introduction to the Hungarian language was developed by Eurolingua, with a practical approach to language learning that is designed to meet the needs of tourists, students, and business-persons. Basic language skills are gradually developed through ten lessons that treat everyday situations such as...
Hippocrene Books, 2007. — 148 p. If you're traveling to Hawaii and the only Hawaiian word you know is Aloha, this is the book for you! Hawaiians are enormously proud of their heritage, and Hawaiian shares official-language status with English. This book provides all the language you need to get by in Hawaiian, and is the ideal companion for vacationers and others interested in...
Gorgias Press, 2015. — 491 p. — (Gorgias Handbooks). As the first two-way Syriac-English/English-Syriac dictionary, the Concise Dictionary is both a convenient academic resource and a door into the world of Modern Literary Syriac. With 13,000 entries drawn from the major existing works, the Syriac-English section is a practical tool for all but the most specialized Classical...
Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, Bereich Sprachwissenschaft, 2018. — 389 S. Die Arbeit gliedert sich in zwei Teile. Im ersten Teil, der historischen Laut- und Formenlehre, werden die sicheren Erkenntnisse über die Entstehung der altpersischen Laute und Formen aus dem Urindogermanischen dargestellt. Ausserdem werden die Probleme der altpersischen...
LINCOM Europa, 2018. — 378 p. — (LINCOM Studies in Phonetics 26). The 60.000 items provided by the Shin-Meikai Nihongo Akusento Jiten are transliterated for the benefit of all learners, linguists and phoneticians, who are not (yet) fully at ease with Japanese ‘ideograms’, but are interested in this important language. However, the alphabetical order is not Latin, but the...
J-M Carpenter, 2017. — 165 p. This dictionary originally started in 2012 from entries compiled from Hisweloke's Sindarin-English dictionary, without whose original work this project would have taken a lot longer to complete and I am grateful to the creator. Words marked with a * have been deduced (attested only in compounds or other words). Words marked with a † have been...
Hippocrene Books, 1994. — 148 p. — (Beginner's Guides). The Beginner's Series was designed to meet the bilingual needs of the businessperson, tourist or student traveling in Eastern Europe.
Le Monnier università, 2016. — 501 p. Fin dalle più antiche attestazioni scritte il greco si presenta scisso in numerosi dialetti, talvolta assai diversi tra loro e resi graficamente con sistemi differenti (sillabari e alfabeti locali). Nelle varianti letterarie di alcuni di questi dialetti sono stati composti dei testi in poesia e in prosa che si possono annoverare tra i...
3rd Edition — Biblical Institute Press, 1984. — 703 p. — (Studia Pohl: Series maior 4). The book has been compiled in the following way. The first stage was to unite the various notebooks into one comprehensive picture, and, in addition, to transliterate the Egyptian and complete the translation of examples frequently left untranslated. The second step was to extend and...
University of California Press, 1991. — 459 p. In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints of the people who lived with them....
Star Publications, 1997. — 656 p. With over 9 000 total entries this concise easy to use dictionary features eastern Armenian dialect phonetic pronunciation for each language.
Hippocrene Books, 1994. — 328 p. — (Beginner's Guides). The Beginner's Series consists of basic foreign language instruction, which includes vocabulary, grammar, and common phrases. Review questions and exercises strengthen the student's knowledge and confidence. Cultural insights, historical background, and insight into everyday living is provided - driving, shopping, business...
Hippocrene Books, 2006. — 324 p. — (Hippocrene Beginner's Series). The Hippocrene Beginners Series offers basic language instruction, presenting grammar, vocabulary, and common phrases in clear, concise lessons. Review questions and exercises accompany each section, while historical and cultural material gives insight into customs and everyday situations. Books in the series...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. — 457 p. Comprehensive Articulatory Phonetics teaches how to recognize, record, and reproduce the sounds of any language. Phonetics is the study of sounds. Specifically, it is the study of human speech sounds. A person who only speaks one language may not realize that there are hundreds of different consonants and vowels spoken...
Royal Academy of Arts, 2008. — 494 p. In this magnificent book exploring the artistic and cultural riches of Byzantium, eminent scholars lead a thrilling visual tour of the history and cultural developments of more than a thousand years of Byzantine art, revealing Constantinople’s endless splendors. From icons, wall paintings, mosaics, and manuscripts to ivories, metalwork, and...
Rüdiger Köppe, 2005. — 420 S. — (Kuschitische Sprachstudien/Cushitic language studies 23). K’abeena is a Highland-East-Cushitic language spoken by some 35.000 speakers. The settling area of the people is located in and around the town of Wolkite, some 160 km south west of Addis Ababa. The closest related languages are Alaaba, Kambaata and T’imbaaro. The presented data were...
Zanichelli, 2019. — 332 p. Un testo aggiornato, completo e versatile che spazia organicamente dalla pittura e dal disegno all'architettura, dalla scultura agli oggetti d'arte, dall'arte del costume alla moda, ai giardini. Un'edizione rinnovata nei testi, nel formato, nella grafica e nelle immagini, arricchita dal prezioso corredo del Museo digitale di Itinerario nell'arte.
William Collins, 2015. — 500 p. Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores...
Leiden/Brill, 1952. — 236 S. The classic "Egyptische grammatica" by the great Dutch Egyptologist Adrian de Buck (1892-1959) translated into French. Il occupe la chaire d'égyptologie de l'université de Leyde en 1939 et en 1949. On lui doit les publications de Egyptische Grammatica en 1941, traduite en français en 1952 sous le titre Grammaire élémentaire du moyen égyptien. Il est...
Phaidon Press, 1994. — 276 p. Medieval manuscripts are counted among the greatest glories of Western civilization. With their gold and painted decoration and their charming miniatures, they have always had immense appeal, and images from them can be seen everywhere - from greeting cards and wrapping paper to expensive facsimiles. This entertaining and authoritative book is the...