This series uses the integration of films to develop linguistic competencies through progressive acquisition of vocabulary and grammar structures. A variety of activities target the four communicative goals: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. While continuing to stress the basic importance of the traditional usages, such as the regular characters to be found in all materials published before the adoption of the simplified forms in 1956 and still in use in some areas, the present revision goes further in contrasting variant usages and in providing additional material relevant to the PRC. Closely related with the author's Beginning Chinese and its companion volume, Character Text for Beginning Chinese, this text is based on a new approach which not only takes into account the advantages of the oral-aural method but gets the student more quickly into material that he is likely to encounter in actual written Chinese. Unique features are the emphasis on compounds and their extensive use in various types of exercises. The 1,200 combinations are based on 400 characters; in all, the book contains 120,000 characters of running text. All compounds appear in illustrative sentences accompanied by English translations, in dialogues as a means of audio-lingual reinforcement, and in narrative or expository form. Additional exercises include maps, booksellers' book lists, correspondence, poems, table of contents, and brief passages from the works of outstanding writers such as Sun Yatsen, Hu Shih, Mao Tse-tung, and Lu Hsun. Supplementary lessons present reading material using the simplified characters adopted in mainland China. To suit the needs of the beginner, characters are introduced in large size, and tables indicate the sequence of strokes used in their formation. In addition to a pinyin index, there are three summary charts in which the characters are arranged by lesson, by number of strokes, and by radical. A fourth chart contrasts regular and simplified characters; a fifth chart presents variant forms of the same character. Because of the large characters and extensive material, the book is issued in two volumes, Part I and Part II. This work was supported by a contract with the United States Office of Education.

This is the instructor's manual to accompany Cine-Module 2: Manon des Sources.

Jean Cocteau resume en su fertil actividad creadora todos los aciertos y contradicciones de la primera mitad del siglo xx. Su obra nos trasmite la vitalidad de una existencia hecha para la imagen y la alquimia a partir de la fantasia y el ensueno. Los ninos terribles plantea el imposible acuerdo entre realidad e imaginacion, placer y deber, orden y aventura, Eros y Thanatos. Su doble estructura, lineal y circular a la vez, recrea las claves de la antigua tragedia en la levedad de unos ninos que se niegan a ser adultos.

Beginning students of the French language and readers looking for a bilingual collection of their favourite stories will welcome this affordable anthology. It comprises works by Voltaire, de Maupassant, Colette, Balzac, Flaubert, and other major authors in the original French, with English translations on the facing pages.

This popular reader-a standard since its first edition in 1876-helps students acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a rich variety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a wide range of dialects and genres, from an early Northumbrian form of Caedmon's Hymn and ninth-century Kentish charters to the complete texts of The Dream of the Rood and Wulfstan's Address to the English, with ample literary and historical notes.

While in a major library, Daniel Torres discovers that a book he had not written is listed under his name. In search of the real author, he travels to frozen lands where his past lies hidden.

Students of Spanish language and culture can now benefit from a text that provides them with an understanding of contemporary Spanish history and society while refining their knowledge of the language and expanding their vocabulary. "La Espana que sobrevive" (originally published in Madrid in 1987) explores the aftermath of the Franco era in Spain. It presents an objective and nonpartisan, yet humorous and affectionate, view of the important aspects of contemporary Spanish history and society. Topics include the transition to democracy; regionalism and nationalism; key players in current affairs; important institutions such as the monarchy, military, and the church; sexual mores; culture; the media; and, politicized approaches to Spanish history. For this edition, William W. Cressey has edited Fernando Diaz-Plaja's text to make it accessible to English-speaking students at an advanced level of Spanish reading skills. Cressey has also added study aids to the book - vocabulary and footnotes, glosses on proper names, questions for discussion, notes on grammar and rhetoric, and exercises. The study aids are gradually phased out, so that the final chapter is presented as stand-alone reading without any supplementary materials. Cressey's adaptation of Diaz-Plaja's highly respected work provides an alternative to literary sources for foreign language instruction - a new resource for teaching foreign languages across the curriculum and instruction through content. Bridging the gap between the fairly simple intermediate readers and texts written for adult native speakers, this book can serve as either a supplementary or main text in the advanced study of language or history, or in preparation for study abroad. "La Espana que sobrevive" is a practical tool for teaching not only the language but also the many facets of modern Spanish culture.

Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book Two, Third Edition presents the Odyssey's Books 6 and 12 in their entirety. Each lesson is a passage consisting of ten to twenty-five lines of text and includes a memorization list of frequently found words, thematic commentary in shaded boxes, and expanded and revised grammatical notes. The text also includes a Greek-English vocabulary list, an appendix of a summary of grammar, and an appendix on reading Homer rhythmically. This text is a continuation of A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book One, Third Edition.

Eine verstandliche und vollstandige Einfuhrung in die Mengentheoretische Topologie, die als Begleittext zu einer Vorlesung, aber auch zum Selbststudium fur Studenten ab dem 3. Semester bestens geeignet ist. Zahlreiche Aufgaben ermoglichen ein systematisches Erlernen des Stoffes, wobei Losungshinweise bzw. Musterlosungen zu ausgewahlten Aufgaben bereitgestellt werden.
In den ersten 10 Kapiteln werden die wichtigen Begriffe und Ergebnisse der Mengentheoretischen Topologie abgehandelt. Daran schliesst sich die Untersuchung uniformer Strukturen in Kapitel 11-12 an. Zur Vertiefung werden Funktionenraume, Vervollstandigungen und Kompaktifizierungen in Kapitel 13-15 behandelt. Fur die Neuauflage wurden funf zusatzliche Kapitel uber topologische Strukturen in topologischen Gruppen sowie ein Abschnitt uber die historischen Entwicklungen der Mengentheoretischen Topologie und der topologischen Gruppen zugefugt."

La gestione della qualita in pneumologia rappresenta l'argomento del volume che fornisce una panoramica sull'evoluzione del concetto di qualita in ambito sanitario, con particolare attenzione all'accreditamento e alla certificazione. Vengono descritte alcune modalita di sviluppo di un Sistema di Gestione per la Qualita in pneumologia e sono riportati alcuni esempi applicativi del modello ISO 9001:2000. Il volume si propone come un primo riferimento didattico-informativo su queste tematiche e si puo trarre una visione d'insieme sulla gestione della qualita in pneumologia, perseguibile e raggiungibile grazie ai contributi sinergici delle Unita Operative Specialistiche, delle Istituzioni Sanitarie, degli esperti di applicazioni di modelli organizzativi in ambito sanitario e delle Societa Scientifiche."

Ces notes sont consacrees aux inegalites et aux theoremes limites classiques pour les suites de variables aleatoires absolument regulieres ou fortement melangeantes au sens de Rosenblatt. Le but poursuivi est de donner des outils techniques pour l'etude des processus faiblement dependants aux statisticiens ou aux probabilistes travaillant sur ces processus.