Language: reference and general

There are several eras in the history of Christianity radical forms of the tradition are obvious: the early church of the first five centuries, the medieval era, the age of reform, the early modern era, and the contemporary era.

When we speak of "e;classical music"e; it often refers rather loosely to serious "e;art"e; music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take.

Russian literature is most celebrated for its Romantic and modernist poetry and 19th-century novels.

The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868.

Although China's intelligence activities may not have been well documented, they can be traced back to the ancient writings of Sun Tzu, and espionage has been a characteristic of Chinese domestic politics and international relations ever since.

From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources.

Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays.

The overriding theme of this work is that women's struggles, human rights, myths, and literary expression are indispensable to an understanding of the modern culture and socio-political development of the Middle East region.

Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy.

The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war.

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 1908.

The foreign relations of the People's Republic of China have gone through dramatic change since 1949.

One of the world's poorest nations, Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.

Although the history of librarianship as an organized profession dates only as far back as the mid-nineteenth century, the history of libraries is much older, and people have been engaged in pursuits that we recognize as librarianship for many thousands of years.

In this reference, Buffery and Marcer cover all of the areas historically inhabited by the Catalan people.

Malawi, established as the British protectorate of Nyasaland in 1891, gained its independence in 1964 and moved immediately into three decades of one-party rule.

The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century.

In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncertain responsibilities, into a powerful institution that today has assumed center stage in the international monetary system.

The Lithuanian people have undergone historic changes quite different from those of other European nations.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important early modern thinkers.

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor.

As long as there have been wars, there have been peace processes to settle them.

For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of the earth's land surface and one-fifth of its population.

The US Supreme Court is an institution that operates almost totally behind closed doors.

Historical Dictionary of German Literature to 1945 covers a wide swath of literary analysis and achievement, from Old High German lays and ecclesiastical encomia to Middle High German epics, sagas, and love lyrics.

Witchcraft has proven an important, if difficult, historical subject to investigate and interpret over the last four decades or so.

In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise.

Ghana, the former British colony of the Gold Coast, is historically known for being the first country to the south of the Sahara to attain political independence from colonial rule.

The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law.

The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years.

The Reformation of the 16th century was a complex and multifaceted political, social, cultural, and religious process.

The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe.

Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764.

In the years immediately following World War II, information was disclosed about what has been termed the shadow war of the existence of hitherto secret agencies.

From the highly entertaining and global online phenomenon, Brother, comes a perfect how-to for millennial men everywhere.

Some find talking to others uncomfortable, difficult, or intimidating.

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general.

An essential guide for pre-service and in-service English language teachers.

Food for the Soul is a work of theology that sheds light on the history of Catholicism while discussing important issues facing the Church and our society today.

This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre.

Introducción a los estudios de traducción presenta nociones clave relativas a los estudios de traducción tales como autoría, intraducibilidad, cuestiones de género, paratextualidad o invisibilidad, así como el papel de la traducción en la colonización y formación de literaturas.

The process of probing beneath and even shaving or sanding away the language undergirding literary works that, word by word, line by line and page by page, sustains a narrative's arc, contributes to the perspective of writer as architect.

A comprehensive writers' guide to the terminology used across the creative writing industries and in the major literary movements.

This book is a practical guide to creative writing, providing advice on style and form, and help with developing work to be read or heard and how to get published.

Presidents and Their Pens: The Story of White House Speechwriters explores 23 presidencies through the detailed analysis of speeches including Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Teddy Roosevelt's "e;Big Stick"e; speech, Eisenhower's farewell to the nation, and Bill Clinton's compassionate words in the wake of tragedy.

This textbook provides concise information, classroom exercises, homework assignments, and speeches to enable college students to master public speaking.

Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula serves as a standard textbook in graduate and senior level undergraduate classes in colleges and universities to contribute to the existing mass communication and ICT literature.

Shows students how to make their writing effective and grammatically correct.

This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno's character "e;Cantinflas,"e; and in the esquirol of the 1960s Actos of the Teatro Campesino.

This first-year Vietnamese language textbook introduces college students to all aspects of the Vietnamese language and culture in twelve comprehensive chapters.