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The completely revised and updated edition contains more than 8,000 terms relating to food ingredients, cooking styles, preparation techniques, utensils, and types of culinary service. Clear and concise definitions, word origins, and simple phonetic pronunciations make this an invaluable resource for food and beverage professionals.
From capsule descriptions/assessments of individual feature films
to extended essays on areas such as Irish animation, short film,
experimental film and documentary production along with discussion
of a wide range of key creative and administrative personnel, the
Dictionary combines a breath of existing scholarship with extensive
new information and research carried out especially for this
volume. It is the definitive guide to Irish cinema in the 21st
century. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Irish
Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced
entries on key Irish actors, directors, producers and other
personnel from over a century of Irish film history. This book is
an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting
to know more about Irish Cinema.
In 1991, Eritrea won a 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia,
and in 1993, it was recognized as Africa's newest nation after more
than a century of conquest and occupation by a succession of
external powers that included the Ottomans, Egypt, Italy, Great
Britain and Ethiopia. Each had left its mark, while fostering a
deep distrust of outsiders and a fierce commitment to Eritrea's
separate political identity. Eritrea and Ethiopia slipped into a
chronic state of no-peace-no-war that kept the entire Horn of
Africa off-balance for nearly two decades, the standoff ended in
2018 when a newly installed Ethiopian prime minister reached out to
Eritrea and set in motion a rapid-fire series of talks among the
states of the African Horn that broke down long-standing barriers
and raised hopes for a new era of regional peace and cooperation.
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Eritrea contains a
chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced
entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign
relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent
resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more
about Eritrea.
This book cover the history of journalism as an institutionalized
form of discourse from the acta diurna in ancient Rome to the news
aggregators of the 21st century. It traces how journalism gradually
distinguished itself from chronicles, history, and the novel in
conjunction with the evolution of news media from news pamphlets,
newsletters, and newspapers through radio, film, and television to
multimedia digital news platforms like Google News. Historical
Dictionary of Journalism, Second Edition covers 46 countries, it
contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography,
the dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries
on a wide array of topics such as African-American journalism, the
historiography of the field, the New Journalism, and women in
journalism. This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about journalism.
Featuring the most important and enduring works from Marx's
enormous corpus, this collection ranges from the Hegelian idealism
of his youth to the mature socialism of his later works. Organized
both topically and in rough chronological order, the selections
(many of them in the translations of Loyd D. Easton and Kurt H.
Guddat) include writings on historical materialism, excerpts from
Capital, and political works.
To capture the diversity within environmentalism, this dictionary
takes a global tack with a focus on ideas, events, institutions,
initiatives, and green movements since the 1960s. It strives to
avoid a common error in many histories of environmentalism: to
exaggerate the input of the wealthy countries of Europe and North
America and understate the influence of Africa, Asia, South and
Central America, and the Polar Regions. It aims as well for a more
comprehensive analysis than most histories of the modern
environmental movement, understanding environmentalism as emerging
not only from grassroots and formal nongovernmental associations,
but also from corporate, governmental, and intergovernmental
organizations and initiatives. This assumes the ideas and energy
infusing environmentalism with political purpose arise from
hundreds of thousands of sources: from corporate boardrooms to
bureaucratic policies to international negotiations to activists.
Thus, environmentalists are not only indigenous people blocking a
logging road, Greenpeace activists protesting a seal hunt, or green
candidates contesting an election; an equal or larger number of
environmentalists are working within the Japanese bureaucracy to
implement environmental policies, within the World Bank to assess
the environmental impacts of loans, within Wal-Mart to green its
purchasing practices, or within intergovernmental forums to
negotiate international environmental agreements. This second
edition of Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism contains a
chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on
important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping
the direction of environmentalism worldwide. This book is an
excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone
wanting to know more about environmentalism.
The founder of the Rosemary House, a Pennsylvania herb and spice
shop, provides readers will all the necessary information for
transforming an herb hobby into a successful herb business, and
shares her secrets for developing and designing herbal products and
packaging them effectively. Illustrations; resource list.
Know someone with an antwacky stem-winder? Heard the Band of Hope
Street? Ever been on a vinegar trip? Do you jangle? Ever met a
Cunard yank in the Dingle? Could you pay for a dodger with a joey?
Have you heard a maccyowler in a jigger? The Liverpool English
Dictionary records the rich vocabulary that has evolved over the
past century and a half, as part of the complex, stratified,
multi-faceted and changing culture of this singular city. With over
2,000 entries from 'Abbadabba' to 'Z-Cars', the roots/routes,
meanings and histories of the words of Liverpool are presented in a
concise, clear and accessible format. Born and bred in Liverpool,
Professor Tony Crowley has spent over thirty years compiling this
bold and innovative dictionary, investigating historical lexicons,
sociological studies, works of history, local newspapers, popular
cultural representations, and, most importantly, the extensive
'lost' literature of the city. Illuminating, often remarkable, and
always enjoyable, this book transforms our understanding of the
history of language in Liverpool.
Designed to meet the needs of both student and scholar, this
edition of Leviathan offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin
Curley, modernized spelling and punctuation of the text, and the
inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the
most significant variants between the English version of 1651 and
the Latin version of 1668. A glossary of seventeenth-century
English terms, and indexes of persons, subjects, and scriptural
passages help make this the most thoughtfully conceived edition of
Leviathan available.
This first-of-its kind dictionary contains: 30,000 entries;
Background notes on Pulaar; Introduction to Pulaar grammatical
categories; Pronunciation guide; Lists of ordinal and cardinal
numbers.
In a country the size of Colorado one can explore snow-capped
mountain peaks, tropical rainforests and coastal beaches. These
three continental regions also offer a variety of flora and fauna
that are a dream come true to the botanist, zoologist and
ornithologist. The famous Galapagos Islands provide an additional
living laboratory for the natural scientist. The ethnographer and
sociologist will be fascinated by the diversity of Ecuador's people
and one could spend a lifetime studying the plethora of distinct
ethnic, racial and linguistic groups. Students of economics will
find an interesting case study of a mono-cultural economy that uses
the U.S. dollar and avoids some of the pitfalls that other Latin
American countries suffer from. Ecuador's rich traditions in art,
music, literature and architecture are a draw to scholars
interested in culture. Ecuador has been described by one author as
a "country of contrasts." This is indeed an apt description of
Ecuador's geography and peoples. It also partially explains the
nation's traditional lack of political cohesion, which has plagued
its quest for stability and development. Historical Dictionary of
Ecuador contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced
entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign
relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent
resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more
about Ecuador.
This dictionary includes a wide range of terms that are in general
use in relation to the multi-disciplinary subject of hearing. It
covers the fields of acoustics, audiology, electronics, medicine,
phonetics, rehabilitation and social administration. The dictionary
has been compiled to meet the needs of the professional who is
non-specialist in some of the fields, of students taking courses
related to hearing, of the lay person and of those whose first
language is not English. The needs of the specialist are supported
by the availability of concise definitions of terms in common
usage.
Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips
Speak German - instantly!
Traveling to Germany but don't know German? Taking German at school
but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don't worry! This
handy little phrasebook will have you speaking German in no time.
Discover how to: Get directions, shop, and eat outTalk numbers,
dates, time, and moneyChat about family and workDiscuss sports and
the weatherDeal with problems and emergencies
The History of German film is diverse and multi-faceted. This
volume can only suggest the richness of a film tradition that
includes five distinct German governments [Wilhelmine Germany, the
Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic of Germany
(West Germany), and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany),
s well as a reunited Germany], two national industries (Germany and
Austria), and a myriad of styles and production methods.
Paradoxically, the political disruptions that have produced these
distinct film eras, as well as and the natural inclination of
artists to rebel and create new styles, allow for construction of a
narrative of German film. Disjuncture generates distinct points of
separation, and yet also highlights continuities between the
ruptures. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of German
Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an
extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200
cross-referenced entries on directors, actors, films,
cinematographers, composers, producers, and major historical events
that greatly affected the direction and development of German
cinema. This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about German cinema.
The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics.
The work is the only dictionary of synonyms for German idiomatic
expressions. The idioms are accessible in a twofold way, either via
a systematic section of semantic fields or an alphabetical record.
The alphabetical entries, in turn, refer to the semantic fields so
that the full contexts of meaning and synonymy are immediately
available. The dictionary is an essential reference work for
everyone who requires a versatile idiomatic style and an in-depth
knowledge of contemporary German (writers, journalists,
translators, foreign learners etc.). The new edition now includes a
comprehensive, all new scholarly introduction exploring the close
connection between idiomology and synonymy.
Even though Leo Fender never learned how to play a guitar, he was
the first to make the electric solidbody guitar a commercial
success. Despite his low-key style and conservative roots, his
radical designs for guitars and amplifiers altered popular music
forever. Much has been published about the Fender Electric
Instrument Co., but Leo always wanted its story to be told "just
the way it happened". Now, Forrest White, his friend and only
general manager, offers a behind-the-scenes look at this company.
In his down-to-earth style, White traces the company's entire
history, from Leo's beginnings as a radio repairman up to the
eventual sale of Fender to CBS and beyond. In between are stories
about the development of the Telecaster, Precision Bass and
Stratocaster, as well as insights into Leo Fender's unique
personality. Fender: The Inside Story is packed with more than 100
historic photos and illustrations; instrument diagrams and
specifications; and anecdotes about artists such as Merle Travis,
Bob Wills, Speedy West, and Tex Ritter. Here is the book that sets
the record straight and dispels the myths about the Fender Electric
Instrument Co., a company that forever changed the look, sound, and
personality of American music.
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