Author: Gert Wingårdh
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3034610572
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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The conditions in which present-day architecture is produced are partly local and singular and partly global and universal. Understanding contemporary architecture means understanding all of these aspects. What are the pivotal themes? Gert Wingårdh and Rasmus Wærn, Sweden’s most active architect and its best-known architecture critic, asked themselves this question and made a selection of approximately fifty terms and concepts, including Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, and Wheelchair. The result is a very special dictionary with humorous illustrations and original articles by interesting protagonists such as Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, and Wilfried Wang. A special highlight is the text by Nobel laureate Ohran Pamuk. Die Voraussetzungen, unter welchen heutige Architektur entsteht, sind teils lokal und einmalig bedingt, teils sind sie von globaler und allgemeingültiger Natur. Zeitgenössische Architektur verstehen heisst, all diese Aspekte verstehen. Welches sind dabei die entscheidenden Themen? Gert Wingårdh und Rasmus Wærn, Schwedens aktivster Architekt beziehungsweise bekanntester Architekturkritiker, haben sich diese Frage gestellt und eine kritische Auswahl von rund 50 Begriffen getroffen, etwa Branding, Collaborators, Corporate, Desire, Future, Everyday, Ornament, Wheelchair. Dadurch ist ein ganz spezielles, witzig illustriertes Begriffs-Wörterbuch entstanden, mit Originalbeiträgen von so interessanten Protagonisten wie etwa Denise Scott Brown, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Ibelings, Peter Blundell Jones, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Joseph Rykwert, Jaime Salazar, Axel Sowa, Wilfried Wang; ein besonderes Highlight ist der Text von Nobelpreisträger Orhan Pamuk.

Author: Gerhard Lohfink
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814668518
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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What Jesus taught through his preaching made an unforgettable impression upon his disciples. But it was the many succinctly formulated sayings of Jesus that stood out from the start because of their clear structure and vividness. In The Most Important Words of Jesus, renowned scholar Gerhard Lohfink focuses on the power, beauty, and seriousness of these seventy central sayings of the Lord. When the Church confesses that Jesus is not only truly human but also truly God, that means he is the perfect image of God, God’s definitive word. It rests on the majestic claim that revealed itself, modestly, discreetly, and yet clearly, in every one of the seventy “sayings” or logia of Jesus. In this book, Lohfink helps us to understand what Jesus is talking about in these sharply defined words.

Author: Len Woods
Publisher: Our Daily Bread Publishing
ISBN: 1640700358
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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There are Bibles in millions of homes across the country but even Christians can struggle to read through it. Reading Scripture can be simple when you unpack the richness of 101 important words of the Bible. Explore words like exile, beloved, and freedom as you increase your knowledge and reverence for the wisdom of the Lord and gain a new appreciation for the beauty He conveys through His Word. Includes book club and small group discussion questions.

Author: Cory Gann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475838298
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Key Words: Reclaiming Children’s Precious Vocabulary is about early and emergent literacy— it promotes the concept that each child possesses a key vocabulary of words that are special and magical. These words conjure emotions that can lead them into the enterprise of reading. Words such as mom or love or a sister’s name, a friend, or a beloved game – these expressions are read by the young child even before they have commenced formal decoding. They are sight words – but of a special kind, because they evoke an emotional response. They are called “key” and each child might well produce her or his own key ring of thirty or forty words. They become the stuff of writing, the personal and the meaningful, in accordance with all of the honored theory about nurturing young writers. This book is full of classroom stories that elaborate the process of a key word approach. The stories are humorous, engaging and inspiring. They are accompanied by specific, detailed guidelines for instituting a key word program in any early childhood classroom. Special attention is paid to students’ progression into writing curriculum as an outgrowth of doing words. The context of culturally relevant, equity and anti-bias education is established throughout every chapter.

Author: Philip Geer
Publisher: Barrons Educational Services
ISBN: 143801290X
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the Graduate Record Exam. GRE Essential Words presents 800 graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam. The book’s additional features include: a pre-test that helps to diagnose weaknesses a lengthy word list with extensive practice exercises a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots a post-test to assess progress answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the pre- and post-test

Author: Lin Lougheed
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1506273440
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 493

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TOEIC Essential Words focuses on 600 words commonly used on the TOEIC. Words are taught in 50 vocabulary-building lessons that focus on American English as it is used in today’s business, industry, communications, and cultural activities. This book includes: All activities formatted like the actual exam Examples of practical English usage Additional exercises to help expand vocabulary A quiz after every five lessons Online audio to help in pronunciation and listening comprehension. Each lesson uses: 12 target words with definitions Several uses in different contexts for the words Practice exercises after the lesson New to this edition is a practice TOEIC test based on the actual exam. Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

Author: Tiziana de Rogatis
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609455649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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“Tackles novelist Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet in terms of their ‘creative forms of [female] resistance’ . . . A richly layered study.” —Kirkus Reviews “I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent.” —Elena Ferrante, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng Huo Zhou Kan Ferrante’s four-volume novel cycle known in English as the Neapolitan quartet has become a global success, with over ten million readers in close to fifty countries. Her readers recount feeling “addicted” to the novels; they describe a pleasure in reading that is as rare as it is irresistible, a compulsion that leads them either to devour the books or to ration them so as to prolong the pleasure. De Rogatis here addresses that same transnational, diverse, transversal audience. Elena Ferrante’s Key Words is conceived as a lighted path made of luminous key words that synthesize the multiform aspects of Ferrante’s writing and guide us through the labyrinth of her global success. “An exceptional companion to the source material, particularly for the lit-crit crowd looking to affirm Ferrante’s reinvention of the future of the novel.” —Library Journal

Author: Reinder Bruinsma
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 0828023409
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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If you were asked to define the essence of Christianity, what would you say? Which words would you choose to describe the life-changing pursuit of something completely intangible? All too often, ¿Christian¿ words are used superficially, without comprehension of their truest meaning¿surface answers to humanity¿s most important questions. But these words influence your sole connection to eternal life.

Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195088360
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This work demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five lanuages, and using its own "natural semantic metalanguage" to provide an analytical framework, it shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.

Author: Pawel Lewicki
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 148325822X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Nonconscious Social Information Processing presents a research program concerned with the processing of social information. It cannot be considered a typical social psychological research program, however, because it is not aimed at explaining any specific social psychological phenomena, nor are the cognitive processes studied specific to the processing of social information. The program explores complex or ""high level"" processing of information that is not mediated by conscious awareness, and social cognition seems to be an appropriate area in which to investigate this kind of processing. The research program began with observations which suggest that nonconscious acquisition and processing of information play a major role in human development and adjustment. The first two chapters discuss these observations and present preliminary theoretical assumptions. The subsequent chapters contain reports of 34 experiments on nonconscious information processing. The book is addressed not only to personality and social psychologists, but also to cognitive psychologists concerned with information processing in general. The former may find this research relevant because most of the experiments describe some mechanisms of acquisition and utilization of social information—problems they are working on themselves. The latter may want to ignore the specific stimulus material (i.e., social information) employed in most of the experiments and focus on the general nature of the cognitive mechanisms studied.