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The Immortal Peaches: A Story in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin, 600 Word Vocabulary
Mr. Jeff Pepper · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
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Sun Wukong, the Handsome Monkey King, is one of most famous characters in Chinese literature and culture. His legendary bravery, his foolish mistakes, his sharp-tongued commentary and his yearning for immortality and spiritual knowledge have inspired hundreds of books, television shows,... |
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Keith Haring: Posters
JURGEN DORING · Prestel
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
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Bursting with color and featuring Keith Haring's powerful messages, this collection of posters includes insightful commentary and dazzling reproductions. Whether Keith Haring was raising awareness of the AIDS epidemic and apartheid or celebrating life, music, and dance, his signature... |
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Chinese Script: History, Characters, Calligraphy
Thomas O Ho?llmann · Columbia University Press
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
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In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Hollmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers... |
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Extraordinary Records
Alessandro Benedetti · TASCHEN
Pages: 599
Format: Hardcover
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The visual of vinyls The most daring of record designs Now available as part of TASCHEN's Bibliotheca Universalis series, this dazzling catalog of vinyl brings new meaning to the "album art." Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, it brings together over 500 remarkable... |
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Modern Korean Grammar: A Practical Guide
Andrew Sangpil Byon · Routledge
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover
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Routledge's Modern Grammar series is an innovative reference guide combining traditional and function-focused grammar in a single volume, with an accompanying workbook. The aim of the Modern Korean Grammar is to provide an overview of the structures and functions of the Korean language.... |
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Korean Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Korean Terms and Phrases
Mike Ellis · Gibbs Smith
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
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The newest volume in Mike Ellis's best-selling Slanguage series will help you learn the basics of the Korean language. Just in time for the 2018 Olympics, Korean Slanguage provides translations and pronunciation guides for approximately 300 English words and phrases. Just use the pronunciation... |
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Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets
Melissa Castillo-Garsow · Arte Publico Pr
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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"We defy translation," Sandra Maria Esteves writes. "Nameless/we are a whole culture/once removed." She is half Dominican, half Puerto Rican, with indigenous and African blood, born in the Bronx. Like so many of the contributors, she is a blend of cultures, histories... |
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Cherokee Narratives: A Linguistic Study
Durbin Feeling · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
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The stories of the Cherokee people presented here capture in written form tales of history, myth, and legend for readers, speakers, and scholars of the Cherokee language. Assembled by noted authorities on Cherokee, this volume marks an unparalleled contribution to the linguistic analysis,... |
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Essential Korean Phrasebook & Dictionary: Speak Korean with Confidence!
Soyeung Koh · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Essential Korean Phrasebook & Dictionary teaches you the practical phrases and expressions needed for common, everyday interactions in Korea in a way that's clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable. Key features of this Korean phrasebook and dictionary include: Over 2,000 practical... |
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English U.S.A. Every Day: With Downloadable Audio
Gilda Martinez-Alba · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A wonderful guide to colloquial "Americanisms" and cultural practicesThis completely new book helps familiarize immigrants and ESL learners with American culture and language in a fun, lighthearted way. Readers will learn about everything from finding a job and locating an organic... |
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Man Ray
Man Ray · TASCHEN
Pages: 251
Format: Paperback
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Rays of Light Man Ray, multitalented master of modernist imagery Man Ray (1890-1976) was a polymath modernist, working in painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, and poetry. But it was his work in photography, with nude studies, fashion work, and portraiture that saw him pioneering a new chapter... |
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Polish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
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Polish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary makes language-learning accessible by using photographs to put the everyday vocabulary of the modern world into context.A thematic organization of more than 10,000 fully illustrated terms labeled in both Polish and English, and comprehensive two-way... |
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Telugu-English/English-Telugu Dictionary & Phrasebook
Lavanya Collooru · Hippocrene Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Telugu (from the Dravidian language family) is a native language of over 80 million people, predominantly in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and also in Yanam of India. An additional 20 million Telugu speakers spread over other parts of South India, the U.S., Australia and the rest... |
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Khmer-English/English-Khmer
Rosanich Sou · Hippocrene Books
Pages: 566
Format: Paperback
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Khmer is the language of Cambodia, often referred to colloquially as Cambodian. It is the second most spoken Austroasiatic language after Vietnamese, with 16 million native speakers and an estimated additional million second language speakers. Ideal for businesspeople, travelers, and students,... |
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The Language of Aikido: A Practitioner's Guide to Japanese Characters and Terminology
Michael Hacker · Talking Budo
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
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Researched and written by a professional linguist with decades of experience as a student of Japanese language, culture, and martial arts--including living and training in Japan for 10 years--"The Languageof Aikido: A Practitioner's Guide to Japanese Characters and Terminology"... |
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