Author : Rachelle Beaudoin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780557197392
The Berlin Dictionary is a participatory dictionary written by over seventy contributors who submitted their favorite and most memorable 'Berlin Words.' With definitions ranging from the Arena to the Yoko and everything in between, the Berlin Dictionary is a must-have for current and former Berlin residents. Featuring over thirty illustrations.
Author : Ulrike Zitzlsperger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 153812422X
After World War II Berlin became one of the playgrounds of the Cold War; the Berlin Wall made the division between East and West, between ‘capitalism’ and ‘communism’ in 1961 highly visible, though it did remove Berlin from front-line politics. East and West Berlin had turned into shop-windows of ideologies – West Berlin representing the lure of a market economy, East Berlin the promise of socialism. It is, then, fitting that the fall of the Wall in 1989 awarded Berlin such a prominent role. It was here that the development after Reunification of East and West became a closely observed event – and, well beyond Germany, Berlin appeared to represent fundamental developments throughout Europe at the time. Today, Berlin is the capital of reunified Germany and therefore one of the key political players in the European Union (EU) and it’s now a desirable destination for young entrepreneurs. The Historical Dictionary of Berlin contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Berlin.
Author : Katherine Hollander
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781904130970
Poetry. MY GERMAN DICTIONARY, which was awarded the 14th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize by former USA Poet Laureate Charles Wright, is a guide to an idiosyncratic interior country, a map of the experience of absorbing and being absorbed by Central European language, culture, aesthetics, and history. It is a catalogue of small beloved things inflected by massive horrors. The poems are home to and haunted by Franz Marc's horses, ETA Hoffmann's tales, the Great War, Bertolt Brecht, Rosa Luxemburg, enchanted bears, Weimar Berlin, and vanished relatives, along with an entire alphabet of mishearings, mnemonics, and valentines for the German language. These are the poems of an historian wrestling with mastery of the unmasterable, the histories in miniature of a poet. "A book of startling, radiant images that ferry the poems to their destinations of discovery and illumination...[T]hese are wise and brave poems, from a wise and brave hand, A to Z. They go to the heart of the heart of the matter, whatever it is, and wherever it is. Like sharp little picks, they de-ice and reveal...[A] beautiful and--it seems to me--necessary book."--Charles Wright (from the Foreword) "Abundant imagination, as heartbreaking and wild as folk tales. Informed historical understanding. Melody in the sentences and lines. Each of these is a rare poetic gift, and all three combined animate Katherine Hollander's MY GERMAN DICTIONARY. These poems with their lexicon of grief confront the terrors of history in a way that is brooding, clear-eyed, and blessedly inventive."--Robert Pinsky
Author : Adele Berlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0199730040
"The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion has been the go-to resource for students, scholars, and researchers in Judaic Studies since its 1997 publication. Now, The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, Second Edition focuses on recent and changing rituals in the Jewish community that have come to the fore since the 1997 publication of the first edition, including the growing trend of baby-naming ceremonies and the founding of gay/lesbian synagogues. Under the editorship of Adele Berlin, nearly 200 internationally renowned scholars have created a new edition that incorporates updated bibliographies, biographies of 20th-century individuals who have shaped the recent thought and history of Judaism, and an index with alternate spellings of Hebrew terms. Entries from the previous edition have been be revised, new entries commissioned, and cross-references added, all to increase ease of navigation research." -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Jonathan Brindle
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 3944675916
This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed to provide an inventory of correspondence with English usage in a reversal index. The concepts used in the dictionary are explained in a grammar outline, which is of interest to specialists in Gur and Grusi linguistics, as well as any language researchers working in this part of the world.
Author : Hugo Riemann
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Michael Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199569924
Searchable database of over 1,900 terms used in the wide variety of visual media that makes up the art world.
Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136599010
This book includes some 200 complete entries from the award-winning Dictionary of Women Artists, as well as a selection of introductory essays from the main volume.
Author : Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave
Publisher :
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : Gérald Gaillard
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780415228251
This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists will prove indispensable for students of anthropology.
