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A guide to conversational Arabic, the dictionary features both the Syrian and Egyptian dialect.

In the course of his forty-year career John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a Latinist poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to an epic poet obsessed with the intractability of sin. A master of almost every verse style -- from the pastoral, devotional, and tenderly lyrical to the supreme grandeur of his great epic, Paradise Lost, and his biblical "Greek tragedy, "...

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Hone biblical language skills while studying God's Word in a daily devotional format. Readings include a prayer, meditation, grammatical notes, and translation helps.

This study explores the dialectic of destruction and renewal in the work that Samuel Beckett regarded as his masterpiece: the trilogy of novels he wrote after World War II. It interprets the trilogy as presenting a subversive critique of the three idols: mother, father, and self to which humanity has looked for protection and guidance throughout history.

This volume represents a rereading of modernism and the modernist canon from a double distance: geographical and temporal. It is a revision not only from the periphery (Spain and Latin America), but from this new fin de si cle as well, a revisiting of modernity and its cultural artifacts from that same postmodernity. Modernism and Its Margins is an attempt at introducing different perspectives and examples in the theoretical debate, redefine d...

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Patronatserklärungen, im Englischen comfort letters genannt, nehmen in der internationalen Konzernfinanzierung eine bedeutende Rolle ein. Für den Verwender stellt sich dabei die Frage ihres Verpflichtungsgehalts. Die Arbeit stellt zunächst die rechtliche Behandlung von Patronatserklärungen im common law dar. Der Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei im englischen und australischen Recht. Dabei können erhebliche Unterschiede in der Bewertung einzelner Erkl...

Reading a series of prose texts by 20th century white women writers ranging from The Making of Americans to Civil Wars this study interrogates a correlation between authors' subject positions as white and their textual investments in American history. It displaces the diffuse acceptance of whiteness as a given property by foregrounding it as a shared, and unquestioned feature of the white reader's and the text's consciousness. To trace the lit...

While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising versatility and quality, featuring Raskolnikov, an expressionist adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, INRI, a monumental Bible epic, Orlac's Hands, a psychological thriller, and Der Rosenkavalier, an ambitious opera film. His last film, Ultimatum(1938), is a vehement ...

PCGs will plan their future and their goals around Primary Care Investment Plans - documents that seem to owe more to a background in business than they do to healthcare

Find strength for life by opening your mind and soul to God's whispering voice. Eloquent stories from the lives of ordinary people finding God in the midst of difficulty and loss will inspire you to rediscover a world filled with wonder, joy and beauty.

In The Promise of America, historian Odd S. Lovoll tells the story of the thousands of Norwegian immigrants who gambled on a fresh start in the United States. Now, Lovoll has carefully revised this successful book to reflect new understandings of the Norwegian-American past, updating the story to today. Changes include additional photos, expanded treatment of the causes of migration, extensive details about the urban Norwegian-American experie...

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Die Arbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, mit Theorien und Ansätzen der Gender-Forschung die Joseph-Romane Thomas Manns aus einer veränderten Werteperspektive zu betrachten. Mit Bezügen zum Transvestismus, zur Maskerade und zur Autoerotik werden in der Interpretation die geschlechtlichen Konstruktionen und im besonderen die Entwicklung der Joseph-Figur untersucht. Eine zentrale Voraussetzung hierfür ist das Hinterfragen des Konstruktes 'Androgynie', wel...

Die Fußballbundesligavereine sind seit ihrer Gründung in der Rechtsform des Idealvereins organisiert und als gemeinnützig anerkannt. Es erscheint allerdings zweifelhaft, ob die Rechtsform des Idealvereins noch zweckmäßig und vereinsrechtlich zulässig ist. Aus steuerlicher Sicht stellt sich die Frage, ob die Bundesligavereine tatsächlich gemeinnützige Ziele verfolgen. An diese Fragestellungen anknüpfend untersucht der Verfasser die Vor- und Nac...

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Written by a medical doctor, a naturopath, and a registered pharmacist, Smart Medicine for Healthier Living is a complete A-to-Z guide to the most common disorders and their treatments, using both alternative care and conventional medicine. Comprehensive and easy-to-follow, Smart Medicine for Healthier Living is divided into three parts. Part one explains the full spectrum of approaches used to effectively treat common health problems. It prov...

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