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William J. Watson (1865-1948) was one of the most important figures in the study of Scottish place-names and Gaelic historical linguistics and literature. Best known for Place-names of Ross and Cromarty (1904) and Celtic Place-names of Scotland (1926), his work laid the foundations for...

"Gregg Shorthand Phrase Book" is a comprehensive reference guide designed to enhance the speed and efficiency of stenographers using the world-renowned Gregg system. Developed to streamline the transcription process, this work provides a vast collection of shorthand signs for common phrases and professional terminology....

ISBN-10: 0194155056ISBN-13: 9780194155052Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2025Format: OtherWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 10.84h x 8.64w x 0.29dNot available to be shipped via Media Mail

poetry from the other side of understanding. poetry from the other side of understanding. poetry from the other side of understanding. poetry from the other side of understanding. poetry from the other side of understanding. Author: Penelope PlumISBN-13: 9798218842253Publisher: Self-PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2025Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight:...

ISBN-10: 0194184943ISBN-13: 9780194184946Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2026Format: OtherWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 10.86h x 8.33w x 0.16dNot available to be shipped via Media Mail

"Russian Grammar," translated, enlarged, and arranged by Walter E. Gowan, is a comprehensive resource tailored for English-speaking students of the Russian language. Originally published in 1884, this edition aims to provide a structured and accessible approach to mastering Russian grammar. This book offers detailed...

Stories are all around us, from the ones we tell our friends to the ones we see and play on screens. Whether you're a storyteller yourself or just a fan of the art of storytelling, "Narrative in Action" is for you. Looking at the...

Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees of the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for...

This study provides a close reading and a critical analysis of four novels by contemporary Canadian women writing in English: Joy Kogawa's Obasan (1983), Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe (1990), Kristjana Gunnars's The Prowler (1989), and Aritha van Herk's No Fixed Address (1987). The...

This book sets out to provide a comprehensive description of inversions of word order in Milton's English poetry, together with statistics and commentary on this rhetorical technique. The author concludes that the most frequent type of inversion is that of Object-Subject-Verb, which he ascribes...

Wolfgang Borcherts berühmtes Drama Drau en vor der Tür von 1946 wird zumeist im Kontext seiner Entstehungszeit betrachtet. Diese Untersuchung analysiert das Stück unter expressionistischen und existentialistischen Aspekten und stellt die zeitunabhängigen Inhalte heraus. Jenseits der vorherrschenden Rezeptionsrichtung, die von der Biographie des Autors...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1+ (15 Punkte), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institut für Anglistik), course: Nature and Literature - From Romanticism to Ecocriticism, language: English, abstract: Bereits Goethe implizierte in seinem Sprichwort, wie...

This is a study about the cultural importation process of popular genres into a literature on the periphery of the European literary polysystem, the case of science fiction and fantasy in Hungary between 1989 and 1995. This book deals with science fiction and translation,...

This book brings together the voices of leading English Education researchers who work to offer views into the changing landscape of English as a result of the use of digital media in classrooms, out of school settings, universities and other contexts in which readers...

Based on Zola's 1867 novel, and dramatized by the author in 1873, this play is almost a French version of the Russian novel, Crime and Punishment. Thérèse and her lover, Laurent, decide to kill her likable but sickly husband, Camille (also her husband), and...

Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonISBN-10: 1425576729ISBN-13: 9781425576721Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2011Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d

Author: University of Pennsylvania Babylonian E.ISBN-10: 1425572138ISBN-13: 9781425572136Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2006Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Empower's unique mix of engaging classroom materials and reliable assessment, with personalised online practice, enables learners to make consistent and measurable progress.Author: Adrian Doff,Craig Thaine,Herbert PuchtaISBN-10: 1108914802ISBN-13: 9781108914802Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2020Pages: 176Format: Paperback

Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment. Included in Combo A is the first half of the Student's Book and the print Workbook (with...

This book was first published in 2010. The study of Romance languages can tell us a great deal about sentence structure and its variation in general. Focusing on the dialects of Italy - including the islands of Sardinia and Sicily - the authors explore...

Over the past twenty years, the annual meetings of the Semiotic Society of America have tracked the growth and development of modern sign theory in American scholarship. Since 1981, the published proceedings of SSA meetings have included representative semiotic work from a wide range...

Lectures Against Sociolinguistics exposes the very serious limitations of sociolinguistics as we know it. Its twelve lectures critically examine the standard sociolinguistic ways of exploring several intersections of human linguisticality and sociality (variability, inter-ethnic and cross-sex communication, language-contact, and 'native'/'non-native' speech, etc.). In addition,...

Reconceptualizing Literacy Methods Instruction: To Build a House That Remembers Its Forest is a personal narrative that recounts the author's uneasy beginnings as a college teacher. It is also a research text, an interpretive study of her teaching mentor's literacy education classroom, organized around...

A Piercing Cry, along with Artemisia, is a novel of female development. The question who am I?, posed in Anna Banti's first novel Itinerario di Paolina, comes full circle in this, her final testimonial work. The central dilemma faced by the protagonist is also...

This book reflects the multifaceted interests of Werner Enninger's personality as well as his professional career. All of the contributors to the volume have worked with him at some time in their own scholarly careers and their studies reflect a wide diversity of their...

There have been many interpretations of Cervantes' works over the centuries. In this 1986 book, John G. Weiger examines what he considers to be the 'substance' of Cervantes: the writer's attitude toward originality, his concern for the reader's visualization of the action and the...

This is the first comprehensive study in English of one of the most important bodies of verse in European literature. Seventeenth-century Spanish poetry represents the culmination of a rich Renaissance tradition, and Professor Terry sets out to make this accessible not only to Hispanists...

Teaching in Two Languages is an ethnographic study of linguistic and social practices in a bilingual Corsican school. Drawing on traditions of research in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistic studies of classroom discourse and power, the emphasis of this book is on the way the...

Author: Anthony ManningISBN-10: 0194247651ISBN-13: 9780194247658Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2010Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.35h x 5.81w x 0.17d

Author: N/AISBN-10: 0194247031ISBN-13: 9780194247030Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2010Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.07h x 5.91w x 0.14d

"Cassell's French-Edition English-French Dictionary" is an extensive and authoritative linguistic resource designed to serve as a bridge between the English and French languages. Compiled by various experts, this comprehensive reference work provides clear and precise translations across a wide spectrum of vocabulary, reflecting the...

Pulse is a miscellany of 29 poems, eclectic in subject matter and not overly constrained by reality's parameters. Expressed quite simply and intelligibly, the poems are largely narratives focussed on forms of a life force, the pulse that drives the body of the human...

The debate over consciousness has lasted decades and there is no end in sight. Or is there?In the field of human knowledge, the way forward has always necessitated a challenge to orthodoxy.Discovery is finding new ways. That is what this book attempts.The answers may...

A Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used word families in the language. This second edition provides expanded information, with notes on regional and internet variation and greater variety...

A Frequency Dictionary of French is an invaluable tool for all learners of French, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used word families in the language. This second edition provides expanded information, with notes on regional and internet variation and greater variety...

Chords in the Soundscapes is a full-length collection of nonfiction poetry about sounds and emotions.This collection is divided into two interrelated sections: 'The Science of Music', which focuses more on the technical side of music and sounds more generally, and 'Love Notes', which focuses...

"An Easy Grammar of the Italian Language" by John Christison, originally published in 1845, provides a comprehensive guide to understanding Italian grammar. This book is perfect for students and enthusiasts seeking a structured approach to learning the intricacies of the Italian language. Covering essential...

The R.A.C, E, Is On! is an engaging easy-to-follow book designed to help students master the art of writing clear, thoughtful responses using the R.A.C.E. method: Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain. Packed with colorful worksheets, fun prompts, and interactive activities, this book turns writing...

Repeating words and expanding sentences enhances language skills, and increases vocabulary. When listening, reading, with verbal play into sound out and, eventually, improving reading skills. In the early year, children's brain develops and matures. Young children's brain is able to absorb language easily. This...

A pocket reference guide including 101 Italian verbs, organized alphabetically and divided into sections based on irregular, impersonal, reflexive, and regular verb categories. You will see proper verb conjugations, past tenses, and gerund forms (think -ing words), as well as the associated pronouns for...

Imagine a speech that doesn't just inform or persuade, but moves people-deeply, emotionally, and memorably. A speech that feels less like a presentation and more like a symphony, where every word, pause, and tone is carefully orchestrated to resonate with the audience. This is...

In einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Ubersetzen abgespielt habe. Wie jede Selbstcharakteristik stimmt diese Feststellung sicher nur zum Teil. Wesentlich jedoch ist die daB es sich bei FRs Ubersetzungen...

In den Skizzen dieses Bands geht es um anfechtbare "Gottesbeweise", um Innovationen und deren Folgewirkungen, um Musik und Sprache, um das Sein und die Seienden sowie um "ungluckliches Bewusstsein". Streng genommen, kann man uber "Gott" und die "Welt" nicht schreiben. Fur Immanuel Kant sind...

Examination Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: The aim of this work is to explore the nature of elements of horror in literature for...

The book, to the best of the editor's knowledge, is the first text of its kind that presents both the traditional and the modern aspects of 'dialysis modeling and control' in a clear, insightful and highly comprehensive writing style. It provides an in-depth analysis...

Author: Volker Boehme-NeßlerISBN-10: 3642118887ISBN-13: 9783642118883Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2010Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Das Buch enthält einen Kurs für Anfänger, wobei die Texte auf Englisch und auf Deutsch nebeneinanderstehen. Die dabei verwendete Methode basiert auf der natürlichen menschlichen Gabe, sich Wörter zu merken, die immer wieder und systematisch im Text auftauchen. Sätze werden stets aus den in...