"A Reflection of Reality" is an anthology of modern Chinese short stories designed as an advanced-level textbook for students who have completed at least three years of college-level Chinese. While many advanced-level Chinese language textbooks stress only practical communication, this textbook uses stories from well-known Chinese authors not only to enhance students' language proficiency, but also to expose students to the literature, history, and evolution of modern Chinese society.

The twelve stories selected for this textbook are written by such contemporary authors as Yu Hua, Wang Anyi, and Gao Xingjian, and have appeared in various newspapers and magazines in China. Each story is filled with useful sentence structures, vocabulary, and cultural information, and is followed by an extensive vocabulary list, numerous sentence structure examples, grammar exercises, and discussion questions. The textbook also includes a comprehensive pinyin index. "A Reflection of Reality "will effectively improve students' Chinese language skills and their understanding of today's China.Advanced-level Chinese language textbook Selected short stories reflect contemporary Chinese society and cultureExtensive vocabulary lists, sentence structure examples, grammar exercises, and discussion questionsComprehensive pinyin index

Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical author, ranking in popularity and importance with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. And for students and teachers of Latin, Daniel H. Garrison's "The Student's Catullus" is a definitive introductory text. This fourth edition, thoroughly revised, makes Catullus' famous poems more accessible than ever.
A comprehensive reference, "The Student's Catullus" includes the following features:
- A brief overview of Catullus's life and artistic persona
- A fresh recension of all 113 poems
- A commentary in English on each poem, explaining difficult points of Latin and salient aspects of Catullus' artistry
- A Who's Who of the people in Catullus' poems
- An explanation of Catullan meters
- A glossary of literary terms used in the commentary
- A complete Latin-English Catullan vocabulary
- Six reference maps
New to this fourth edition are dozens of additional notes to aid comprehension, more nuanced definitions in the vocabulary list, and amplified information in the appendices. In addition, Garrison has expanded his introduction to include tips for students and teachers. Drawing on years of classroom experience, Garrison urges readers to avoid rote translation and instead engage thoroughly with the poet's delightful language, syntax, structure, and rhythm.

Die Ausgabe des 'Iwein'-Romans Hartmanns von Aue stellt neben den mittelhochdeutschen Text nach der Ausgabe von Ludwig Wolff eine zeilengetreue UEbersetzung ins Neuhochdeutsche. Ein ausfuhrliches Nachwort behandelt die Informationen zu Autor und Werk und zu den Problemen seiner Interpretation.

First published in 1913, this book contains an adaptation of Ein Schloss in den Ardennen by the German author Friedrich Wilhelm von Hacklander (1816-77). Aimed at school pupils, the text is presented in German with phonetic transcriptions of difficult words at the foot of each page. A short biography of the author, questions on the narrative and grammatical exercises are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in German literature and the history of education.

Saaq al-Bambuu (The Bamboo Stalk) by Kuwaiti novelist Saud al-Sanousi provides students at the intermediate-advanced Arabic language level the opportunity to engage with an award-winning work of contemporary fiction. This abridged version has been approved by the author, authenticating the richness of a text that offers students the means to develop vocabulary and reading fluency while sensitizing them to the stylistics of the language. The novel is a coming-of-age story of a half-Filippino, half-Kuwaiti teen who returns to his father's Kuwait. There, he explores his own identity as a poor Filipino in a culture he does not know well and receives a mixed welcome from his own wealthy relatives. Universal concepts of identity, faith, belonging, poverty/wealth, and otherness are explored through a poetic narrative and engaging plot that will keep students captivated from the first line to the very last page. Included within the book are chapter exercises that develop linguistic and cultural competencies, a short biography of the author, and glossaries of literary terms and devices. As with Laila Familiar's Sayyidi wa Habibi, this authorized version of the abridged text by a contemporary Arabic author will be warmly embraced by college and university students of Arabic as well as by independent learners.

Lyotrope FlA1/4ssigkristalle stellen den Altesten Typ des vierten Zustandes der Materie dar, welcher die Eigenschaften kristalliner FestkArper und normaler FlA1/4ssigkeiten in sich vereint und deshalb Mesophase genannt wird. Trotz vielfAltiger AnwendungsmAglichkeiten in Medizin, Pharmazie und Kosmetik fA1/4hren sie im Vergleich zu den konkurrierenden thermotropen Mesophasen immer noch ein Schattendasein. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, den Chemikern, Physikern und Pharmazeuten sowie Studenten hAherer Semester die Grundlagen lyotroper FlA1/4ssigkristalle nahezubringen, ihre Verwandtschaft sowie Unterschiede zu thermotropen FlA1/4ssigkristallen herauszuarbeiten und die vielfAltigen MAglichkeiten ihrer Anwendung aufzuzeigen.

Originally published in 1944, this book contains a selection of passages intended to help a beginner in Persian 'with sufficient reading matter for an intensive course to qualify him for attacking successfully the ordinary newspaper and magazine', as well as for informal conversation. Arberry also intends the book as a brief overview of Persian literature and culture, and supplies notes and vocabulary to go with the sample texts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of education and Persian language learning in Britain.