The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Rac……続きを見る
Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essenti……続きを見る
Calvinism is named after 16th century Reformer, John Calvin whose overall theology is contained in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559). Calvin's theology and ecclesiology provided the fo……続きを見る
著者:James R. Hines
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2011年04月22日
Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 19……続きを見る
From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the……続きを見る
With about one billion members, the Catholic Church is one of the world’s largest religious bodies, and its history is crucially linked to global events. In the Historical Dictionary of Catholicism,……続きを見る
著者:Bertil van Boer
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年04月05日
When we speak of “classical music” it often refers rather loosely to serious “art” music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take. Th……続きを見る
Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov,……続きを見る
In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel updates her work on operas written specifically to an English text, including not only works originally……続きを見る
著者:Mr. Nigel West
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年02月18日
British Intelligence is the oldest, most experienced organization of its kind in the world, the unseen hand behind so many world events, and glamorized by James Bond. Despite the change in role, fro……続きを見る
著者:Miller, William
出版社: Delmarva Publications, Inc.
発売日: 2015年06月16日
This is a Church Dictionary, especially one not as expensive as the more costly works, and at the same time something more complete and satisfactory than a mere glossary of terms. What seems to be n……続きを見る
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The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy includes a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries o……続きを見る
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The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictiona……続きを見る
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出版社: Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump
発売日: 2024年02月12日
Serbisch erscheint durch die scheinbar völlige Abwesenheit von Vokalen in vielen Wörtern als schwer zu erlernende Sprache. Doch wie Autor Markus Bingel sagt: Serbisch beißt nicht! Sein Kauderwelsch-……続きを見る
The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China sch……続きを見る
The US Supreme Court is an institution that operates almost totally behind closed doors. This book opens those doors by providing a comprehensive look at the justices, procedures, cases, and issues ……続きを見る
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Leider ist Italienisch alles andere als eine leicht zu erlernende Sprache.
Die beste Methode, um Italienisch zu meistern, ist deshalb, die beliebt……続きを見る
著者:Linda Milton
出版社: Linda Milton
発売日: 2015年07月20日
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Extrait : "Les généralités qui suivent se rapportent aux principes, aux méthodes, à la classification, à l'enseignement et à l'histoire des Mathématiques. Nous les avons puisées à bonne source, dans……続きを見る
著者:David Grambs
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2015年08月12日
"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."ーPatricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle
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著者:Jens Sobisch
出版社: Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump
発売日: 2015年05月28日
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著者:Alois Wiesler
出版社: Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump
発売日: 2018年09月21日
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著者:Lars Kabel
出版社: Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump
発売日: 2024年07月15日
In Irland stoßen Reisende neben Englisch ständig auf eine fremd klingende und fremd aussehende Sprache – das Irische, auch Gälisch bzw. Gaeilge oder Gaolainn genannt. Einst auf der ganzen Insel gesp……続きを見る
著者:John Nolan
出版社: Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump
発売日: 2019年10月07日
Die Sprache ist ein wesentlicher Teil der Kultur eines Volkes, d. h. sie ist der Schlüssel zu Wertvorstellungen, Normen, Gefühlen und einigem mehr. Slowakisch ist zwar keine einfache Sprache, doch o……続きを見る
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar is a straightforward and accessible A-Z guide to the diverse and often complex terminology of English grammar. It contains over 1,600 entries with clear and ……続きを見る
As the world’s only English-language historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), this book offers a comprehensive coverage of major historical figures, events, political te……続きを見る
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligence works and how its operations have impacted Russia……続きを見る
Situated in the breathtaking Caucasus Mountains between the Black and the Caspian Seas, the country of Georgia sits at the crossroads between Europe and Asia; it has gone through more turbulence and……続きを見る