I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 306 p. In the midst of the space race and nuclear age, Soviet Realist artists were producing figurative oil paintings. Why? How was art produced to control and co-opt the peripheries of the Soviet Union, particularly Central Asia? Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 306 p. In the midst of the space race and nuclear age, Soviet Realist artists were producing figurative oil paintings. Why? How was art produced to control and co-opt the peripheries of the Soviet Union, particularly Central Asia? Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 409 p. — (BAR International Series 2422). The development of settlement in the region between Chiusi and Volterra (northern Etruria, corresponding to the modern territory of Siena), from the Iron Age to the end of the Romanization period (9th-1st century BC), is a much-debated subject among Etruscan archaeologists. This comprehensive study attempts to...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. — 343 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G30). Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda,...
Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1983. — 186 p. — (CIIL Grammar Series 10). The Lotha Naga language belongs to the central group of Naga languages within the Tibeto-Burman language family. It is primarily spoken by the Lotha people, who reside mainly in the Wokha district of Nagaland. The text delves into the structure of this language, covering aspects such as phonology,...
Zaphon, 2018. — 383 S. — (Kasion 1). Heilige Orte sind vom alltäglichen Leben abgesonderte Stätten mit einer sakralen Bedeutung. Sie werden verbunden mit besonderen Symbolhandlungen ritueller Natur und sind insofern auch Kultorte, die der Konstituierung gemeinschaftlicher und individueller Identität dienen. Exemplarisch werden Orte der Antike aus archäologischer,...
Çanakkale Araştırmaları Türk Yıllığı. — 2015. — Sayı 19. — s. 93-122. Çanakkale'de, Osmanlı döneminde Yıldırım Bayezıd'dan itibaren bölgeyi, özellikle boğazı korumak ve İstanbul'a Akdeniz'den gelecek saldırılara engel olmak amacıyla kaleler yapılmıştır. Yıldırım Bayezıd'dan sonra kale inşasına XIX. yüzyılın ilk yarısına kadar devam edilmiştir. Mevcut bazı kaleler onarılmış ve...
University of Chicago Press, 1986. — 372 p. In this widely acclaimed work, James Ackerman considers in detail the buildings designed by Michelangelo in Florence and Rome—including the Medici Chapel, the Farnese Palace, the Basilica of St. Peter, and the Capitoline Hill. He then turns to an examination of the artists architectural drawings, theory, and practice. As Ackerman...
Viking Press, 1961. — 286 p. Michelangelo Buonarroti was principally a sculptor and always claimed that architecture was not his profession; but, with a sculptor's vision, he saw buildings as dynamic organisms - metaphors of the human body - and he designed some of the most impressive architecture in all history. Among his best-known buildings are the Medici Chapel and the...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 306 p. — (Bollingen series 35.34). In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 304 p. — (Bollingen series 35.34). In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le...
Facts On File, 2008. — 3756 p. The seven-volume Encyclopedia of World History is a comprehensive reference to the most important events, themes, and personalities in world history. The encyclopedia covers the entire range of human history in chronological order—from the prehistoric eras and early civilizations to our contemporary age—using six time periods that will be familiar...
Longanesi, 2014. — 363 p. Architetto che ha fatto una lunga esperienza di archeologo e che ama in maniera profonda il costruire degli antichi, Adam ha anche grandissime doti di intelligente divulgatore, come attesta, oltre a questo libro, anche un delicato documentario di analogo soggetto da lui girato in Italia pochi anni orsono. Per Adam la tecnica costruttiva antica nasce...
Routledge, 2005. — 368 p. With over 750 illustrations, Roman Buildings is a thorough and systematic examination of Roman architecture and building practice, looking at large-scale public buildings as well as more modest homes and shops. Placing emphasis on the technical aspects of the subject, the author follows the process of building through each stage -- from quarry to...
Harry N. Abrams, 1995. — 537 p. Nearly 50 years after the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich, the officially sanctioned art of his National Socialist regime remains largely unknown. Many were destroyed or stored away in inaccessible locations. Now a documentary film producer offers a thoroughly researched, engrossing examination of the art of National Socialist Germany.
Harry N. Abrams, 1991. — 344 p. In Classical Architecture Robert Adam traces the history of classical design to the present day and provides examples of virtually every one of its applications. He shows how the style of classical architecture has been echoed, adapted, and refined in subsequent schools, including those as diverse as Hellenistic, Romanesque, and Baroque. Adam...
British School at Athens, 1966. — 214 p. — (Supplementary Volume 3). When the technical methods by which the Greeks carved their statues were first discussed, no one doubted that the range of their tools and the way they used them were very similar to those customary at the time of such discussion.1 It was generally agreed that hammer, punch, saw, drill; pointed, flat, rounded,...
Routledge, 2009. — 303 p. In 1905, John Garstang held a concession to dig at Hierakonpolis on behalf of the Liverpool University Excavations Committee. He published a brief report, which described further excavations within the temple and town enclosure of Nekhen, following those of Quibell and Green (1900 and 1902). During his first season the ground had been too hard to...
American Oriental Society, 1988. — 215 p. — (American oriental series 71). Though provided with an excellent descriptive grammar in Krause and Thomas’ Tocharisches Elementarbuch and a substantial etymological dictionary in the first volume of Van Windekens’ Le tokharien confronté avec les autres langues indo-européennes, the student of the Tocharian languages lacks a handy...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 725 p. This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2018. — 448 р. Now thoroughly revised and updated throughout, featuring extended discussions of Mannerism and the expanding role of women in the visual arts and significant illustration program enhancements, Italian Renaissance Art is a readable, student-friendly, lavishly-illustrated introduction to one of the greatest periods of artistic genius in...
Zaphon, 2022. — 326 p. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 109). The present volume brings together 14 papers of a workshop organized by the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and the Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem. The objective of the workshop was to confront scholarly interpretations of the various transitional phases across the late 4th–3rd Millennium...
Pennsylvania State University, 2003. — 141 p. The title xntj-S occurs from the Old Kingdom down into the 18th Dynasty. The title has enjoyed a few short treatises on its meaning. However, no one has yet brought all the evidence for these individuals together in one study. Moreover, previous studies have all used a restricted size of sample in their analyses. Compiled here is a...
The University of Chicago Press, 1965. — 252 p. This volume presents the results of archaeological field reconnaissance conducted by Robert McC. Adams in the Diyala region of Iraq between 1957 and 1958. It seeks to identify some of the converging natural and human forces that shaped successive phases of advance and decline within this small and somewhat marginal part of the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1981. — 384 p. Adams describes the Mesopotamian environment, his surface survey, and its results in this pivitol study on the settlement patterns in Mesopotamia and the Diyala region. Adams' book describes settlements and traces some of the ancient canals and river courses from the Ubaid Period up through the Late Islamic Periods. However, only...
Abrams, 2017. — 257 p. The Designer’s Dictionary of Color provides an in-depth look at 30 colors key to art and graphic design. Organized by spectrum, in color-by-color sections for easy navigation, this book documents each hue with charts showing color range and palette variations. Chapters detail each color’s creative history and cultural associations, with examples of color...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 217 p. — (BAR International Series 2241/Sudan Archaeological Research Society 18). In 1998 and 1999 volumes II and III of the reports on the University of Kentucky excavations at Kulubnarti were published by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society as numbers 2 and 4 in its monograph series. Kulubnarti III was also available through British...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 309 p. — (BAR International Series 2000(I)/Sudan archaeological research society 17). This is a study of the churches of Nobadia – the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its territory has now been flooded by the successive Aswan dams, and much of the remainder has been surveyed by archaeologists, there is...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 213 p. — (BAR International Series 2000(II)/Sudan archaeological research society 17). This is a study of the churches of Nobadia – the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its territory has now been flooded by the successive Aswan dams, and much of the remainder has been surveyed by archaeologists, there is...
Open Book Publishers, 2020. — 506 p. — (Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 4). Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled unearths forgotten texts that once belonged to the library of the Karaite community in Cairo. Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in...
University of California Press, 1990. — 272 p. The Art of Light and Space is the first major overview of one of the most independent and accomplished artists of our time. For the benefit of art historians, artists, and the general reader, Craig Adcock examines, with the support of many illustrations, the full range of James Turrell's life and art. He gives special attention to...
Phaidon, 2015. — 640 p. From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — 552 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 601). This book brings together new work on Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history to honour Robert Blust. The memoirs in Part 1 reflect on Blust's groundbreaking contributions to these fields over the last 40 years. The remaining 26 chapters...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 430 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 30). Siraya is a Formosan language once spoken around Tainan City in southwest Taiwan. This comprehensive study is based on an analysis of the language of the Siraya Gospel of St. Matthew, which was translated from the Dutch in 1661. It contains a grammar, lexicon and extensive text with interlinear...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 228 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 529). This is a commemorative volume for the late David John (Jack) Prentice (1942-1995). Jack Prentice was a linguist who published on Timugon Murut (Sabah, Borneo ) and on various forms of Malay and Indonesian. This book contains papers on the grammatical...
The Australian National University, 1992. — 265 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 119). A reconstruction of Proto-Malayic phonology, lexicon and morphology based on the systematic comparison of six ‘Malayic’ varieties: Standard Malay, Minangkabau, Banjar Malay, Middle Malay (Sumatra), Iban (Sarawak), and Jakarta Malay.
3rd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2016. — 295 p. The third edition of the best-selling Oxford Picture Dictionary provides unparalleled support for vocabulary teaching to meet the needs of today's English language learners. -4,000 English words and phrases with meaningful, real-life contexts presented within 12 thematic units, including Everyday Language, People, Housing,...
Helmut Buske, 2017. — 384 S. In 24 Haupt- und 111 Unterkapiteln wird der Wortschatz des modernen Lebens nach Wortfamilien sortiert sowie umfassend und benutzerfreundlich präsentiert. Die rund 9.000 Wörter und Wendungen bzw. Anwendungsbeispiele sind nach einer Auswertung aller deutschsprachigen Schwedischlehrwerke zusammengestellt worden; zudem wurde der in den...
Electa, 2000. — 110 p. Hadrian. The architectural plan of the villa. The rediscovery of the villa. The buildings of the hadrian's Villa. Pecile. The hundred chambers. The baths with Heliocaminus. The philosopher's chamber. The maritime theatre. Library courtyard. With bibliography. The Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana in Italian) is a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli,...
Electa, 2000. — 110 p. A practical, complete guide for those wishing to explore the monumental complex built by the Emperor Hadrian in 118 AC as a government palace and vacation residence. After a short historical profile of the Roman emperor, the volume examines the spaces and buildings of the residence, built over an earlier Republican-era villa from the 2nd century BC and...
Electa, 2000. — 117 p. Una guida per chi desidera avventurarsi nel monumentale complesso voluto dall’imperatore Adriano nel 118 d.C. come palazzo governativo e insieme sede di villeggiatura. Dopo un breve profilo storico della figura dell’imperatore romano, il volume presenta gli ambienti e gli edifici in cui si sviluppava la residenza, sorta su una precedente villa...
Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 2004. — 196 S. — (Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien 7). Bei der Pannonischen Glanztonware (PGW) handelt es sich um Keramikgattung, die vom Ende des 1. bis ins fortgeschrittene 3. Jh. n. Chr. in ganz Pannonien verbreitet gewesen ist. Sie ist ein Produkt lokaler Töpferwerkstätten,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. — 423 p. — (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 48). The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and...
Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 1997. — 318 p. Leidinyje, remiantis lietuvių ir užsienio mokslininkų paskelbta bei gausia archyvine medžiaga, išlikusiais architektūros paminklais, muziejų rinkiniais, glaustai nušviečiama lietuvių dailės ir architektūros.
Mokslas, 1987. — 367 p. Leidinyje, remiantis lietuvių ir užsienio mokslininkų paskelbta bei gausia archyvine medžiaga, išlikusiais architektūros paminklais, muziejų rinkiniais, glaustai nušviečiama lietuvių dailės ir architektūros raida ikifeodaliniu ir feodalizmo ( iki 1775 m.) laikotarpiu.
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, 1989. — 316 p. Esta obra, es fruto de un proyecto llevado a cabo por el Consejo Super ior de Investigaciones Científicas en el año 1962 para redactar, en un ión de un grupo de colaboradores, un Diccionario Griego Español (DGE) que superara en amplitud a los diccionarios existentes y tuviera en cu enta el estado actual de nuestros...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, 1989. — 305 p. Esta obra, es fruto de un proyecto llevado a cabo por el Consejo Super ior de Investigaciones Científicas en el año 1962 para redactar, en un ión de un grupo de colaboradores, un Diccionario Griego Español (DGE) que superara en amplitud a los diccionarios existentes y tuviera en cu enta el estado actual de nuestros...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, 1995. — 318 p. Esta obra, es fruto de un proyecto llevado a cabo por el Consejo Super ior de Investigaciones Científicas en el año 1962 para redactar, en un ión de un grupo de colaboradores, un Diccionario Griego Español (DGE) que superara en amplitud a los diccionarios existentes y tuviera en cu enta el estado actual de nuestros...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, 1995. — 303 p. Esta obra, es fruto de un proyecto llevado a cabo por el Consejo Super ior de Investigaciones Científicas en el año 1962 para redactar, en un ión de un grupo de colaboradores, un Diccionario Griego Español (DGE) que superara en amplitud a los diccionarios existentes y tuviera en cu enta el estado actual de nuestros...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, 1991. — 410 p. Esta obra, es fruto de un proyecto llevado a cabo por el Consejo Super ior de Investigaciones Científicas en el año 1962 para redactar, en un ión de un grupo de colaboradores, un Diccionario Griego Español (DGE) que superara en amplitud a los diccionarios existentes y tuviera en cu enta el estado actual de nuestros...