Foreign Language Books

Die Urspr??nge mathematischen Denkens, d.h. die Bildung abstrakter Begriffe und die Herstellung von Beziehungen zwischen ihnen, liegen nach heutigem Wissen in den Hochkulturen Mesopotamiens und ??gyptens im 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Hier beginnt der Autor seine Zeitreise durch die Mathematik und verfolgt ihre Geschichte bis in ausgehende 20. Jahrhundert. Mathematische Ideen, Methoden und Ergebnisse sowie die sie tragenden Menschen werden ebenso pr??gnant und lebendig geschildert, wie die Kulturen und das Umfeld, in denen Mathematik entstand und sich in Wechselwirkung mit der Gesellschaft entwickelte. Ein spannendes Lesevergn??gen f??r Mathematiker und alle an Mathematik und seiner Geschichte als Teil unserer Kultur Interessierte Der erste Band umfasst die Zeit von den Urspr??ngen bis Zeit der wissenschaftlichen Revolution des 17. Jahrhunderts. more...

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From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of key texts by Dickens and Balzac. more...

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El presente estudio pretende aplicar el nuevo paradigma teórico que nos brinda la lingüística cognitiva al análisis del uso de la formación perifrástica en español, en concreto a las perífrasis incoativas (inceptivas) y la conceptualización de "fase inicial", proponiendo un análisis a la vez explicativo y útil para la adquisición del español como lengua extranjera. El foco de la atención se pone en la dimensión semántico-conceptual de la formación perifrástica. El concepto de "esquema dinámico-topológico" es una de las nociones clave en que se apoya el análisis. Lene Fogsgaard (1941) es doctora y catedrática de filología hispánica de la Universidad de Aarhus, Dinamarca, y miembro del grupo de investigación del Centro de Investigación Semiótica, en Aarhus, además de autora de Esquemas copulativos de SER y ESTAR. Ensayo de semiolingüística. more...

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Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been an ample amount of critical inquiry on Depression-era photographs, the bulk of scholarship treats them as isolated art objects. And yet they were often joined together with evocative writing in a genre that flourished amid the period, the documentary book. American Modernism and Depression Documentary looks at the tradition of the hybrid, verbal-visual texts that flourished during a time when U.S. citizens were becoming increasingly conscious of the life of a larger nation. Jeff Allred draws on a range of seminal works to illustrate the convergence of modernism and documentary, two forms often regarded as unrelated. Whereas critics routinely look to James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men as the sole instance of the modernist documentary book, Allred turns to such works as Richard Wright's scathing 12 Million Black Voices, and the oft-neglected You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White to open up the critical playing field. And rather than focusing on the ethos of Progressivism and/or the politics and aesthetics of the New Deal, Allred emphasizes the centrality of Life magazine to the consolidation of a novel cultural form. more...

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Para cultivar un negocio se requiere un plan reciente y efectivo. Es la clave de empezar, mantener y dirigir su negocio. Los dueños hispanos tendrán la información para planear para su negocio, donde conseguir capital y donde buscar inversionistas. El libro está lleno de recursos, muestras, ejemplos y dos planes actuales. Este guía le ayuda crear un plan exitoso fácilmente. A Spanish translation of the bestselling Anatomy of a Business Plan , this book will help non-English-speaking Hispanic and bilingual Hispanic business owners. In Spanish more...

Price: $17.00