Archive For The “Encyclopedias” Category
By Peter Behnstedt
ISBN-10: 9004325697
ISBN-13: 9789004325692
Because the author's book of Die nordjemenitischen Dialekte. Teil 1: Atlas in 1985, loads of new box paintings has been performed in North Yemen and adjoining parts with new facts in particular from the extraordinary north of Yemen and neighbouring components in Saudi Arabia. those are thought of to be the main archaic Arabic dialect parts. The e-book of a brand new atlas of the sector in English accordingly instructed itself. The atlas includes 192 absolutely colored maps with 30 phonetical and phonological maps, a hundred morphological and 60 lexical ones. counting on the topic the maps are observed through shorter or longer commentaries and paradigms. The booklet is of curiosity to Arabists, Semitists and dialectologists.
By Bonnie Zimmerman
ISBN-10: 0203487885
ISBN-13: 9780203487884
ISBN-10: 0203796128
ISBN-13: 9780203796122
ISBN-10: 0815319207
ISBN-13: 9780815319207
ISBN-10: 0815333544
ISBN-13: 9780815333548
A wealthy historical past that should be documented starting in 1869, whilst the research of homosexuality could be stated to have began with the institution of sexology, this encyclopedia bargains money owed of an important foreign advancements in a space that now occupies a serious position in lots of fields of educational endeavours. It covers an extended background and a dynamic and ever altering current, whereas establishing up the educational occupation to new scholarship and new methods of pondering. A groundbreaking new method whereas gays and lesbians have shared many points of lifestyles, their histories and cultures constructed in profoundly other ways. to mirror this significant truth, the encyclopedia has been ready in separate volumes assuring that either histories obtain complete, impartial realization and wide diversity of human event is roofed. Written for and by means of quite a lot of humans meant as a reference for college kids and students in all fields, in addition to for most people, the encyclopedia is written in trouble-free language. whilst it continues a excessive point of scholarship that includes either ardour and objectivity. it's written by way of probably the most recognized names within the box, in addition to new students, whose examine keeps to boost gender reviews into the longer term
By Angel Comas
ISBN-10: 8495602105
ISBN-13: 9788495602107
By Abby Day
ISBN-10: 0566088150
ISBN-13: 9780566088155
ISBN-10: 0754688941
ISBN-13: 9780754688945
Now in its moment variation, this foreign best-selling ebook has been revised and up-to-date. It specializes in assisting humans conquer one of the most universal stumbling blocks to winning booklet. loss of time? An subconscious worry of rejection? Conflicting priorities? during this ebook Abby Day explains tips on how to conquer those stumbling blocks and create publishable papers for journals probably to submit them.
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By Brian W. Shaffer, Patrick O'Donnell, David W. Madden, Justus Nieland, John Clement Ball
ISBN-10: 1405192445
ISBN-13: 9781405192446
This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference consultant to twentieth-century fiction within the English-language. With approximately 500 participants and over 1 million phrases, it's the such a lot entire and authoritative reference advisor to twentieth-century fiction within the English language.Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 phrases written in lucid, jargon-free prose, through a world forged of major scholarsArranged in three volumes protecting British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and global Fiction, with every one quantity edited through a number one pupil within the fieldEntries disguise significant writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ng?g? Wa Thiong’o) and their key worksCovers the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English around the 20th century (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avante garde novel) in addition to the foremost events, debates, and rubrics in the box (censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the movie undefined, and the fiction of migration, Diaspora, and exile)
By Alan Barnard, Jonathan Spencer
ISBN-10: 0415409780
ISBN-13: 9780415409780
Written through top students within the box, this entire and readable source provides anthropology scholars a special advisor to the information, arguments and background of the self-discipline. The totally revised and accelerated moment version displays significant adjustments in anthropology long ago decade.
By Barry Keith Grant
ISBN-10: 0028657942
ISBN-13: 9780028657943
This reference offers a finished and available creation to movie and picture stories, protecting such facets as construction, nationwide traditions, studios, genres, severe idea and movie historical past. nearly two hundred entries hide particular issues, together with performing, censorship, enhancing, lights and others. additionally incorporated are greater than 230 profession profiles, putting person achievements within the context of particular themes (for instance, Robert Altman is featured within the article on "Sound"). extra positive factors comprise a accomplished index; a listing of extra analyzing resources; 350 black-and-white and one hundred fifty complete colour photos; and extra.
By Penny Smith
ISBN-10: 0756609976
ISBN-13: 9780756609979
ISBN-10: 1405308486
ISBN-13: 9781405308489
Ever questioned how your physique manages to stick upright or what occurs in your nutrients upon getting eaten? good, ask yourself not more - the DK Human physique Encyclopedia has the entire solutions and extra. study all approximately what is going on inside of your physique - from the pumping energy of your center, to the outstanding skill of the mind. you are going to by no means examine your self within the similar approach back!
By Regina Scheyvens
ISBN-10: 0761948899
ISBN-13: 9780761948896
ISBN-10: 1412933382
ISBN-13: 9781412933384
`Every at times one stumbles throughout a breath of clean air and this useful learn advisor is unquestionably one in all them!.. it will likely be without doubt clean for these people who continue going to the sector and who might be have forgotten the human measurement of analysis. if you supervise scholars the e-book could be an invaluable resource of inspiration.... I shall definitely suggest the publication to any of my scholars' - improvement and alter `Development Fieldwork is a wonderful exam of and education for improvement learn and should be a useful consultant to all these getting into or contemplating fieldwork, anyplace that could be' - development in improvement stories `I could strongly suggest it as a box textbook throughout more than a few disciplines and themes. The tone is considerate, attractive and pragmatic, with the entire chapters contributing both to a truly prime quality book. it's the most sensible publication i've got learn on fieldwork for some time. it really is crucial for an individual considering 'development' established research, however it additionally incorporates a good deal of price and curiosity to geographers, sociologists and different scholars operating in and at the West' - Singapore magazine of Tropical Geography 'This is a phenomenal e-book, and person who we all engaged in fieldwork in "developing nations" may want to learn and probably re-read. considerate, appropriate and always well-written' - Professor Stuart Corbridge, London college of Economics and collage of Miami 'An very good assessment of the pitfalls and difficulties of fieldwork in distant places... dependent and relaxing, incisive and elegant... sturdy humoured and eminently sensible - the "Lonely Planet" advisor to the sphere' - Professor John Connell, Sydney college 'A very welcome and richly inviting assessment of the politics, ethics and practicalities of fieldwork, improvement Fieldwork merits analyzing in lots of 'fields'. this would definitely commute a long way' - James D Sidaway, nationwide collage of Singapore 'I warmly commend this advisor to an individual making plans or maybe brooding about fieldwork within the 3rd international. Postgraduates and teachers will locate it relatively sturdy, because it not just increases an abundance of sensible and logistical issues yet explores basic moral and epistemological issues to an strange measure, together with concerns no longer addressed in other places. The readability and a spotlight to element also are very welcome, as is the convenience with which the booklet should be navigated' - Janet Townsend, college of Durham `Developmental Fieldwork offers an invaluable advisor full of info on functional and private (and occasionally political) concerns. as with every strong `rough' courses, instead of solving thoughts and shutting matters, the authors make it some extent to indicate versatile itineraries around the terrain of the `field'. The e-book may still in time develop into a well-thumbed, dog-eared quantity, thrown into the haversack in addition to the computer (both sorts), tape recorder, mosquito repellent, sun shades and durable footwear' - Brenda S A Yeoh, nationwide collage of Singapore improvement Fieldwork presents an necessary new source and consultant for all scholars project improvement fieldwork within the 3rd international. available and energetic, the textual content: - introduces the fundamentals of analysis layout and method including assistance on determining the easiest study equipment; - presents `hands on' recommendation (practical, own and moral) to these getting ready to go into `the field'; - covers the preliminary making plans and coaching levels to finish writing up and advice for the profitable resumption of existence again domestic. The authors draw upon a wealthy and various set of fieldwork studies around the constructing global (rural and concrete) and make the most of case reports to demonstrate the various universal concerns and demanding situations that would face either new and skilled fieldwork researchers. it will likely be an important textual content and better half to all postgraduate and learn scholars around the social sciences.
By Jason König, Greg Woolf
ISBN-10: 1107038235
ISBN-13: 9781107038233
ISBN-10: 1107465125
ISBN-13: 9781107465121
ISBN-10: 1139814680
ISBN-13: 9781139814683
ISBN-10: 1461950635
ISBN-13: 9781461950639
There's a wealthy physique of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the 2 millennia ahead of the Enlightenment. This publication sheds new gentle on that fabric. It lines the improvement of traditions of information ordering which stretched again to Pliny and Varro and others within the classical global. it really works with a vast suggestion of encyclopaedism, resisting the concept that there has been any transparent pre-modern style of the 'encyclopaedia', and displaying in its place how the rhetoric and strategies of entire compilation left their mark on a shocking variety of texts. within the method it attracts awareness to either outstanding similarities and remarkable transformations among conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in numerous classes, with a spotlight totally on European/Mediterranean tradition. The booklet covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance tradition in flip, and combines chapters which survey complete classes with others centred heavily on person texts as case stories.