Painstakingly restored from Tolkien`s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of Gondolin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Balrogs, Dragons and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien`s Middle-earth.In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar.Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves...

ISBN: 9780008302801
Дата выхода: январь 2022

Filled with useful definitions, First Children`s Dictionary is an ideal first reference book for children eager to expand their vocabulary.With over 3,000 entries of updated, curriculum-linked content, First Children`s Dictionary is an ideal starting place for young children wanting to describe the world around them. From using a dictionary to word histories that help develop an understanding of where words come from, this dictionary for kids is an essential first reference book.Perfect for homework, First Children`s Dictionary is the ideal starting place for children aged 6 and up intrigued about where words come from.

ISBN: 9780241228272
Дата выхода: январь 2023

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Luthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth.The tale of Beren and Luthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Luthien: for Beren was a...

ISBN: 9780008214197
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume.J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron.It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works...

ISBN: 9780008537838
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023

During the past 16 years, acclaimed author and documentary-maker, Laurence Rees has met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into the Nazi psyche and the Second World War have received enormous praise. Following the success of Rees`s bestselling "Auschwitz", this substantially revised and updated edition of "The Nazis - A Warning from History" tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. At the heart of the book lie compelling eyewitness accounts of life under Adolf Hitler, spoken through the words of those who experienced the Nazi regime at every level of society. An extensive new section on the Nazi/Soviet war (previously published in Rees`s "War of the Century")...

ISBN: 978-0-563-49333-4
Дата выхода: июль 2012

`I Have a Dream` is an anthology of history`s most inspiring words and thoughts from history`s greatest leaders from all ages and nations. Each of the 370 quotations is accompanied by an extended annotation that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation. Includes: `Heroes have the whole earth for their tomb` - Pericles (431 BCE); `I am confident in the justice of my cause` - Socrates (399 BCE); `I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen` - Martin Luther (1520); `I have the heart of a king, and a king of England, too` - Queen Elizabeth I (1588); `Give me liberty or give me death!` - Patrick Henry (1775); `We hold these truths to be self-evident` - Gen John Nixon (1776); `This...

ISBN: 978-0-85738-620-5
Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

An unusual and authoritative `natural history of languages` that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet, the history of the world`s great languages has rarely been examined. Empires of the Word is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations - in education, culture and diplomacy - devised by speakers in the Middle East; the uncanny resilience of Chinese throughout twenty centuries of...

ISBN: 978-0-00-711871-7
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8750-9771-3

English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic invaders from various parts of what is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands. Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England. One of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate. The original Old English language was then influenced by two further waves of invasion: the first by speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic language family, who conquered and colonized parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries; the second by the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English...

ISBN: 978-6-1307-1703-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8762-1986-2

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии.

ISBN: 978-5-8791-2950-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1888 года (издательство "New York, Chicago [etc.] Belford, Clarke & co").

ISBN: 978-5-8811-1105-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1899 года (издательство "New York, Akron, Ohio, [etc.] The Werner co.").

ISBN: 978-5-8822-9213-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию

Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1899 года (издательство "[n.p.]").

ISBN: 978-5-8823-3503-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The word "chocolate" entered the English language from Spanish. How the word came into Spanish is less certain, and there are multiple competing explanations. Perhaps the most cited explanation is that "chocolate" comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, from the word "chocolatl", which many sources derived from the Nahuatl word "xocolatl" made up from the words "xococ" meaning sour or bitter, and "atl" meaning water or drink. However, as William Bright noted the word "chocolatl" doesn't occur in central Mexican colonial sources making this an unlikely derivation. Santamaria gives a derivation from the Yucatec Maya word "chokol" meaning hot, and the Nahuatl "atl" meaning water. More...

ISBN: 978-6-1308-4333-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City is a 2005 book charting the history of popular music, by the acclaimed music journalist and cultural commentator Paul Morley. Its style is highly idiosyncratic, and it takes the form of a robotic Kylie Minogue traveling, with Morley, in a cyber-car towards a city of "sound and ideas." The starting point for this highly unusual, yet scholarly history of popular music are Morley's favourite pieces at the time of writing: Minogue's electro-pop song "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" and Alvin Lucier's experimental "I am sitting in a room". From these seemingly unrelated musical compositions Morley reflects on the meanings of music in its many...

ISBN: 978-6-1333-9808-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The present Yearbook (which is the sixth in the series) is subtitled Economy, Demography, Culture, and Cosmic Civilizations. To some extent it reveals the extraordinary potential of scientific research. The common feature of all our Yearbooks, including the present volume, is the usage of formal methods and social studies methods in their synthesis to analyze different phenomena. In other words, if to borrow Alexander Pushkin`s words, `to verify the algebra with harmony`. One should note that publishing in a single collection the articles that apply mathematical methods to the study of various epochs and scales - from deep historical reconstruction to the pressing problems of the modern world - reflects our approach to the selection of...

ISBN: 9785705752478
Издательство: Учитель
Дата выхода: январь 2019

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of sentence spacing is the evolution of sentence spacing conventions from the introduction of movable type in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg to the present day. Typesetting in all European languages enjoys a long tradition of using spaces of varying widths for the express purpose of enhancing readability. American, English, French, and other European typesetters' style guides—also known as printers' rules—specified spacing rules which were all essentially identical from the 18th century onwards. Early English language guides by Jacobi in the UK and MacKellar, Harpel, Bishop, and De Vinne in the USA specified that sentences would be separated by a single space, but one larger than...

ISBN: 978-6-1327-7286-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of chiropractic dates from 1895, when Daniel David Palmer of Iowa performed the first chiropractic adjustment on a partially deaf janitor, Harvey Lillard, who then mentioned a few days later to Palmer that his hearing seemed better. This led to Palmer opening a school of chiropractic two years later. The word "chiropractic" was coined from Greek root words by Reverend Samel Weed.

ISBN: 978-5-5093-8041-9

How does language work? How do we learn to speak? Why do languages change? Why do they have so many quirks? What does language reveal about the mind? Steven Pinker explores the mysteries of language in this original and hugely entertaining book. Pinker uses a deceptively simple phenomenon - regular and irregular verbs - to illuminate an astonishing array of topics: the history of languages, what we can learn from children`s grammatical mistakes, the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of language, and some of the major themes in Western philosophy. The key idea - that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules - extends beyond language, offering insight into the nature of...

ISBN: 978-0-06-201190-9
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of writing records the development of expressing language by letters or other marks. In the history of how systems of representation of language through graphic means have evolved in different human civilizations, more complete writing systems were preceded by proto-writing, systems of ideographic and/or early mnemonic symbol. True writing, in which the entire content of a linguistic utterance is encoded so that another reader can reconstruct, with a fair degree of accuracy, the exact utterance written down, is a later development, and is distinguished from proto-writing which typically avoids encoding grammatical words and affixes, making it difficult or impossible to confidently...

ISBN: 978-5-5093-1614-2

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The history of Wallonia, from pre-historic times to the present day, is that of a territory which, since 1970, has approximately coincided with the territory of the Walloon Region, a federated component which includes the smaller German-speaking Community of Belgium (73,000 inhabitants). Wallonia is the name colloquially given to the Walloon Region . The French word Wallonie comes from the term Wallon, itself coming from Walh. Walh is a very old Germanic word used to refer to a speaker of Celtic or Latin.

ISBN: 978-5-5093-7333-6

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The History of Liverpool can be traced back to 1190 when the place was known as 'Liuerpul', possibly meaning a pool or creek with muddy water. Other origins of the name have been suggested, including 'elverpool', a reference to the large number of eels in the Mersey, but the definitive origin is open to debate and is probably lost to history. A likely derivation is connected with the Welsh word "Llif" meaning a flood, often used as the proper name for the Atlantic Ocean, whilst "pool" is in general in place names in England derived from the late British or Welsh "Pwll" meaing variously, a pool, an inlet or a pit. Although a small motte and bailey castle had earlier been built by the Normans at...

ISBN: 978-6-1326-8940-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The medicinal uses of heated water baths have an impressive lineage. This article attempts to provide a brief overview of the history of the spa. Spa comes from the Walloon word “espa” meaning spring fountain. This, in turn, came from the name of the Belgian town Spa, a famed site of healing hot springs, Spa has been frequented as a watering-place since as early as the 14th century. Though other sources of healing hot mineral springs have become famous throughout the world, it is the town of Spa which has become eponymous with any place having a natural water source that is believed to possess special health-giving properties, as a spa. The word spa is still used, although in some regions...

ISBN: 978-6-1327-7885-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The collection of essays is written from the vantage point of the global South. The author considers key issues in post-apartheid South Africa, with particular reference to the experiences of South African Indians, as expressed in their recent writings. The expansion of our sense of history by a spate of fictional and biographical writings has prompted reflections on memory-making, identities, community, and nation-building at the present juncture. The influence of Gandhi as well as profiles of other writers is included. The perennial and universal issue of the connection between art and politics is an important sub-text of this collection. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-7981-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011