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Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems

Gharīb Iskandar · Syracuse University Press
Pages: 103
Format: Print book

The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago,...
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600 Basic Japanese Verbs: The Essential Reference Guide

The Hiro Japanese Center (Compiler) · Tuttle Publishing; Bilingual edition

600 Basic Japanese Verbs is a handy, easy-to-use guide to one of the building blocks of Japanese grammar—verbs.This book will be an essential resource for students wishing to learn Japanese as it shows how to conjugate the 600 most common Japanese verbs quickly, and with very little...
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Beginning Biblical Hebrew: A Grammar and Illustrated Reader

John A Cook · Baker Academic
Pages: 90
Format: Paperback

This innovative textbook by two leading experts in Biblical Hebrew combines the best of traditional grammars, new insights into Hebrew linguistics, and a creative pedagogical approach. The material has been field tested and refined for more than a decade by the authors, who are actively...
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Latin Grammar

Raffaela Maidhoff · Barron's Educational Series; Bilingual edition
Format: Paperback

This brand-new textbook for students of classical literature presents a comprehensive summary of Latin grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Students are introduced to nouns in all genders and declensions, verbs in all conjugations and tenses, vocabulary, and bilingual passages that...
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Collins German Unabridged Dictionary, 8th Edition

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. · Collins Reference; 8 Blg Una edition
Format: Book

The richest resource for German studyComprehensive and authoritative, including the latest words and phrases from contemporary German and EnglishKey phrases, idioms, and set grammatical structures are highlighted to help you understand more complex entriesCulture boxes explain the origins...
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Gisela Erlacher - Skies of Concrete

Gisela Erlacher · Park Books
Pages: 104
Format: Print book

With Skies of Concrete, Austrian architectural photographer Gisela Erlacher explores a fascinating subject for urbanization - our ability to live, work, and play in what might seem like the most inhospitable of places. Erlacher had long been fascinated with the ways existing structures...
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Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Ann Patty · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An entertaining exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin language and literature, and an inspiring account of finding renewed purpose through learning something new and challenging After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved...
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