Author: David Burnley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131788339X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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This second edition of The History of the English Language- A Sourcebook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the origins and development of the English language. First published in 1992, the book contains over fifty illustrative passages, drawn from the oldest English to the twentieth century. The passages are contextualised by individual introductions and grouped into the traditional periods of Old English, Early Middle English, Later Middle English, Early Modern English and Modern English. These periods are connected by brief essays explaining the major linguistic developments associated with each period, to produce a continuous outline history. For this new edition Professor Burnley has expanded the outline of linguistic features at each of the main chronological divisions and included more selections and illustrations. A new section has also been included to illustrate the language of advertising from the 18th century to the present. The book will be of general interest to all those interested in the origins and development of the English language, and in particular to students and teachers of the history of the English language at A-level and university.
Author: Logan Clendening
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486206211
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
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One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine
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Category : Kievan Rus
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Author: A. M. Nagler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486315541
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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An annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed passages includes views by observers from ancient Greece to modern times on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, props, much more.
Author: Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Author: Guy Carleton Lee
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027237538
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "all the bibliographical items in this book ... along with self-installing software necessary to process the databases and tha annotations on a personal computer." -- p. [535].
Author: Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Author: Harlow Shapley
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The phenomenal growth of modern astronomy, including the invention of the coronagraph and major developments in telescope design and photographic technique, is unparalleled in many centuries. Theories of relativity, the concept and measurement of the expanding universe, the location of sun and planets far from the center of the Milky Way, the exploration of the interiors of stars, the pulsation theory of Cepheid variation, and investigations of interstellar space have profoundly altered the astronomer's approach. These fundamental discoveries are reported in papers by such eminent scientists as Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur S. Eddington, Henry Norris Russell, Sir James Jeans, Meghnad Saha, Otto Struve, Fred L. Whipple, Bernard Lyot, Jan H. Oort, and George Ellery Hale. The Source Book's 69 contributions represent all fields of astronomy. For example, there are reports on the equivalence of mass and energy (E = mc ) of the special theory of relativity; building the 200-inch Palomar telescope; the scattering of galaxies suggesting a rapidly expanding universe; stellar evolution; and the Big Bang and Steady State theories of the universe's origin.
Author: William Francis Magie
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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