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Offers critical and practical essays with insights applicable across the language-teaching spectrum. This work examines foreign language education from general requirements through advanced literature and film courses to study abroad, showing how to enable the success of students with disabilities at every step of the way.

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This dictionary is specially designed to help students understand, appreciate and remember Chinese characters. It has the following features: Each character entry includes a brief etymology explaining the character's composition according to traditional Chinese research.Genealogical charts highlight the connections between characters, showing the creation of more than 4,000 characters from less than 200 simple pictographs and ideographs. Based on computerized referencing of the classic dictionary written nearly 2,000 years ago, these charts generalize and systematize the radical system by allowing a character to be found by any component, whether phonetic or semantic. For continuity, a traditional radical index is also included.Mandarin standards in China and Taiwan are distinguished.Simplified forms for each character are given.Character entries list all words which use the character in any position, allowing a word to be found even if the first character is unknown.English definitions are referenced in an English-Chinese index.A word pronunciation index allows students to directly search for an overheard word without having to guess the word's initial character.A stroke count index and a traditional radical index are included.

A survey of the historical roots of Judaism and Christianity. The book defines the main components, influences and transformations of the ancient Hebrew beliefs and then considers those of Christianity. It shows how Christianity arose out of the Judaic heritage.

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), known as the founder of the phenomenological movement, was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. This book traces the development of Husserl's thought from his earliest investigations in philosophy - informed by his work as a mathematician - to his publication of "Ideas" in 1913.

This is a study of the experience of one of Germany's most important armaments manufacturers - and automotive companies - during the period of the Third Reich. The book examines how the opportunities offered by the Nazi rearmament in the 1930s led to rapid expansion and a surge in profits.

In this work the author disscusses the delusions we all experience as well as delusions associated with paranoia, perversions, being in love and identification with delusional parents.

In 1943, physicist Peter P. Wegener was assigned to work at Peenemunde, where the supersonic wind tunnels of the rocket laboratories of the German Army were situated, and where Wernher von Braun led a team that developed the V2. In this book, Wegener recounts his experiences during World War II.

Provides an account of Louis XVI's reign. This book divides his story into three periods: the first 12 years of Louis' reign reveals the secret workings of absolute monarchy; the second covers the period 1787-89; and the third, from 1789-93, focuses on the King's attitude toward the Revolution.