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Slavist, Linguist, Philanthropist

By: Jan Paul Hinrichs

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Slavist, Linguist, Philanthropist

By: Jan Paul Hinrichs

Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941) was the founder of Slavic studies in the Netherlands and one of the greatest Slavists in general. This book describes for the first time how a scholar of the Dutch language, whose etymological dictionary of the Dutch language is still considered the best of its kind, was appointed in 1913 to the newly created Chair in Slavic languages at Leiden University and built up a tremendous reputation for himself in Eastern Europe. Van Wijk's relations with his famous teacher, the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck, are followed attentively, as is his postgraduate apprenticeship in Leipzig (1902-1903), where he followed August Leskien's lectures in Slavic studies. Attention is also paid to the various aspects of Van Wijk's enormous oeuvre covering the whole field of Slavic studies and of phonology, of which he was one of the pioneers. Van Wijk did not, however, follow the lines approved for the social conduct of a Leiden professor and was at one time suspected by the police of communist activities. His commitment to materially helping all he could from an Eastern Europe torn apart by the First World War and its aftermath was exceptional. His fascination with all things Russian is a background theme that played throughout his life and even at his death: son of a Dutch Reformed minister, the bachelor Van Wijk was buried in a grave surmounted by a Russian Orthodox cross beside his Russian foster son, who died young. This book is of interest to Slavists, linguists and cultural historians.

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Rodopi

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9042020237

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9789042020238

Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.)

At the Crossroads of Iranian, Hellenistic, and Central Asian History

By: Marek Jan Olbrycht

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Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.)

At the Crossroads of Iranian, Hellenistic, and Central Asian History

By: Marek Jan Olbrycht

In Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.): At the Crossroads of Iranian, Hellenistic, and Central Asian History, Marek Jan Olbrycht depicts the early Arsakid Parthian state in northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan within the broader historical context of Western and Central Asia in the post-Achaemenid/Hellenistic period.

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395

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BRILL

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9004460764

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9789004460768

The Orientalist Karl Süssheim Meets the Young Turk Officer İsma’il Hakkı Bey

Two Unexplored Sources from the Last Decade in the Reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II

By: Jan Schmidt

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The Orientalist Karl Süssheim Meets the Young Turk Officer İsma’il Hakkı Bey

Two Unexplored Sources from the Last Decade in the Reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II

By: Jan Schmidt

The book consists of transcriptions and summary translations of two texts in, mostly, Ottoman Turkish, the first of which is the recently discovered second volume of the diary of the German orientalist Karl Süssheim, covering the years 1903-08 which he mostly spent in Istanbul. The second text is a printed memoir of a Young Turk officer called İsma’il Hakkı, in which the latter discusses his life, political engagement and the resulting problems. Süssheim met İsma’il Hakkı in Cairo in 1908 and kept in contact with him later. The texts offer a lively picture of Istanbul and Cairo in the early years of the 20th century, the repressive regime of Sultan Abdulhamid II and the heady days of the Young Turk revolution of July 1908.

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BRILL

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9004366172

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9789004366176

Living with Africa

By: Jan Vansina

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Living with Africa

By: Jan Vansina

In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. "I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he could analyze Kuba oral tradition using the same methods he had learned for interpreting medieval dirges was a historiographical breakthrough, and his first book, Oral Tradition as History, is considered the seminal work that gave the study of precolonial African history both the scholarly justification and the self-confidence it had been lacking. Living with Africa is a compelling memoir of Vansina's life and career on three continents, interwoven with the story of African history as a scholarly specialty. In the background of his narrative are the collapse of colonialism in Africa and the emergence of newly independent nations; in the foreground are the first conferences on African history, the founding of journals and departments, and the efforts of Africans to establish a history curriculum for the schools in their new nations.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299143244

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9780299143244

Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.)

Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts

By: Jan Tavernier

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Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550-330 B.C.)

Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts

By: Jan Tavernier

This book collects and discusses the Old Iranian divine names, personal names, geographical names (toponyms, hydronyms and oronyms) and loanwords, which are attested in texts written in Aramaic, Babylonian, Egyptian, Elamite, Lycian, Lydian and Phrygian. The texts, both royal inscriptions and documentary texts, are discovered in the entire territory of the Achaemenid Empire (from Egypt to Bactria), which controlled the Ancient Near East from ca. 550 to 331 B.C. The Iranica discussed in this book are divided into four categories: (1) directly transmitted Iranica, (2) semi-directly transmitted Iranica, (3) foreign Iranica and (4) indirectly transmitted Iranica (the so-called "Altiranische Nebenuberlieferung"). All expressions, which do not belong to one of these categories, are brought together in a section called "Incerta". The etymology and linguistic setting of each Iranian expression is studied and a list of occurrences is added to this analysis.

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Peeters Publishers

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9042918330

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9789042918337

Buildings and projects

By: Klaus Jan Philipp

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Buildings and projects

By: Klaus Jan Philipp

This is the second volume on the oeuvre of the famous German architects showing works of the last three years.

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258

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Edition Axel Menges

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3932565398

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9783932565397

The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation

By: Jan Klapste

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The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation

By: Jan Klapste

The book on the Medieval transformation that impacted the Czech lands in the 13th century, focussed on the onset of landed nobility, the transformation of the rural milieu, and the early urban history. The explanation is anchored in a broad European context.

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BRILL

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9004203478

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9789004203471

Literary Activities and Attitudes in the Stanislavian Age in Poland (1764-1795)

A Social System?

By: Jan IJ. van der Meer

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Literary Activities and Attitudes in the Stanislavian Age in Poland (1764-1795)

A Social System?

By: Jan IJ. van der Meer

The present book for the first time links the thoughts of modern Western sociologists of literature with an overall description of the literary activities, attitudes, and views in late eighteenth-century Poland. Inspired by the studies of Bourdieu on literary fields and, more particular, S.J. Schmidt's study of the history of the rise and development of the social system 'literature' in Germany in the eighteenth-century (cf. Schmidt 1989), the author tries to establish whether Poland witnessed the rise of a more complex and (relatively) autonomous literary field or, as Schmidt calls it, a functionally differentiated literary system in the age of the reign of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-1795). Functionally differentiated literary systems - systems in which an increased number of literary agents and institutions produce, sell, buy, and criticize literary works according to capitalist principles - are the literary systems of today. As most scholars believe, their origins are to be found in most European nations in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Did such a modern literary system, albeit with certain limitations, rise in Poland in the years of the rule of Stanislaw A. Poniatowski? - this is the question the author of the present volume will attempt to answer. This volume is of interest to theoreticians and empirical researchers approaching literature from a sociological point of view, historians, and, of course, slavists interested in eighteenth-century literary developments in Poland.

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339

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BRILL

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9004488480

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9789004488489

Johann Heinrich Hottinger

Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century

By: Jan Loop

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Johann Heinrich Hottinger

Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century

By: Jan Loop

This book is the first documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. It includes a biographical account of Hottinger, studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as teacher of the Arabic language, as student of the history of Islam, and as a Protestant who used his work to engage in anti-Catholic polemics.

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Oxford-Warburg Studies

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0199682143

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9780199682140

Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

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Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary

By: Jan Onofrio

Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Pennsylvania. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.

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Somerset Publishers, Inc.

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0403099501

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9780403099504

The Mindful Writer, Still the Mind, Free the Pen

By: Jan Marquart

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The Mindful Writer, Still the Mind, Free the Pen

By: Jan Marquart

The Mindful Writer, Still the Mind, Free the Pen is an easy-to-read book by psychotherapist and author Jan Marquart. In this book you will discover ways to continue writing at all costs dispelling the misdiagnosis writer's block. Still your mind, free your pen and watch your stories fill the page in powerful ways. Everyone has a life full of rich stories. Write them, express yourself, heal your life and reawaken who you are. Jan shares some of her own stories and how writing has influenced her life. The Mindful Writer, Still the Mind, Free the Pen emboldens writers to find their internal voices with their pens.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1456547135

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9781456547134

Semiramis' Legacy

The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily

By: Jan Stronk

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Semiramis' Legacy

The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily

By: Jan Stronk

There are only a few detailed histories of Persia from Ancient Greek historiography that have survived time. Diodorus of Sicily, a first century BC author, is the only one to have written a comprehensive history (the I I I I I I I [kappa]I I I I I I I I I (Bibliotheca Historica or Historical Library)) in which more than cursory attention is paid to Persia. The Bibliotheca Historica covers the entire period from Persia's prehistory until the arrival of the Parthians from the East and that of Roman power throughout Asia Minor and beyond from the West, some 750 odd years or more after Assyrian rule ended. Diodorus' contribution to our knowledge of Persian history is therefore of great value for the modern historian of the Ancient Near East and in this book Jan Stronk provides the first complete translation of Diodorus' account of the history of Persia. He also examines and evaluates both Diodorus' account and the sources he used to compose his work, taking into consideration the historical, political and archaeological factors that may have played a role in the transmission of the evidence he used to acquire the raw material underlying his Bibliotheca.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474414273

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9781474414272

Petermann's Maps

Cartobibliography of the Maps in ""Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen"", 1855-1945

By: Jan Smits

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Petermann's Maps

Cartobibliography of the Maps in ""Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen"", 1855-1945

By: Jan Smits

Petermann's Maps focuses on the maps published in the famous German journal Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen. This journal, which still exists today, greatly influenced the development of scientific geography and cartography in Germany in the nineteenth century. Numerous articles have been published by recognized experts in this field, along with a multitude of illustrations, showing maps, prints and photographs. The journal developed into an important publication, setting the standard in the history of the great expeditions and discoveries, and European colonial matters. Petermann's Maps contains a bibliography of over 3400 maps, the complete series of maps published in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen between the year of its foundation, 1855, to the end of the Second World War. Besides the bibliography 160 of the most attractive geographical and thematic coloured maps are included in Petermann's Maps. These maps can also be viewed on the CD-ROM accompanying the book.An extensive introduction precedes the cartobibliography proper, placing Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen in its historical context. The introduction describes the history of geography from the eighteenth century onwards, outlining the development of the study of the science of cartography in Germany. The major role the founder of the journal, Augustus Petermann (1822-1878), and the publishing house Justus Perthes in Gotha played in these developments is discussed at length.

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BRILL

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9004475281

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9789004475281

Frédéric Chopin: The Etudes

History, Performance, Interpretation

By: Jan Marisse Huizing

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Frédéric Chopin: The Etudes

History, Performance, Interpretation

By: Jan Marisse Huizing

The Chopin Etudes are without doubt one of the highlights of piano literature - they are essential in achieving a masterful technique and full of musical ideas. The present e-book edition illustrates the etudes in a historical context, based on an excursus on Chopin's piano methodology and a thorough comparison of the musical texts: from the original manuscripts to the most recent urtext editions. It deals with questions about genesis, style, interpretation and playing technique as well as with the history and development of the piano. This casts an entirely new light not only on the etudes themselves but also on the interpretation of other works by Chopin. With its numerous examples, facsimile reproductions and a discography, this e-book is a must-have for both lovers of Chopin's music and advanced amateur and professional pianists.

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Schott Music

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3795785499

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Fault Location on Power Networks

By: Murari Mohan Saha,Jan Jozef Izykowski,Eugeniusz Rosolowski

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Fault Location on Power Networks

By: Murari Mohan Saha,Jan Jozef Izykowski,Eugeniusz Rosolowski

Fault Location on Power Lines enables readers to pinpoint the location of a fault on power lines following a disturbance. The nine chapters are organised according to the design of different locators. The authors do not simply refer the reader to manufacturers’ documentation, but instead have compiled detailed information to allow for in-depth comparison. Fault Location on Power Lines describes basic algorithms used in fault locators, focusing on fault location on overhead transmission lines, but also covering fault location in distribution networks. An application of artificial intelligence in this field is also presented, to help the reader to understand all aspects of fault location on overhead lines, including both the design and application standpoints. Professional engineers, researchers, and postgraduate and undergraduate students will find Fault Location on Power Lines a valuable resource, which enables them to reproduce complete algorithms of digital fault locators in their basic forms.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1848828861

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9781848828865

Morning

Book 8 in the Can You Find My Love? Series

By: Jan Marquart

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Morning

Book 8 in the Can You Find My Love? Series

By: Jan Marquart

Why is brushing your teeth so important? How does your smile brighten someone elses day? Why is breakfast the most important meal of the day? Plus, more about what you do in the morning. The Can You Find My Love? book series was developed by seasoned psychotherapist, Jan Marquart, who began her career working with kids and their families in residential centers. As an author, her Love + Learning Instruction Method now helps children retain information through image associations, artistic interactivity, and positive reinforcement.

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0996854193

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Lunch with Mom

A Daughter's Soliloquy

By: Jan Marquart

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Lunch with Mom

A Daughter's Soliloquy

By: Jan Marquart

For every daughter who has triumphed despite having a less-than-perfect relationship with her mother. "What is it like to be your mother's daughter?" This is a difficult question for most daughters to answer. Jan Marquart has responded in her intimate and revealing Lunch with Mom: A Daughter's Soliloquy. Although Jan's mother passed away in 1984, her relationship with her mother has remained alive in her heart. For years, she wrote a lengthy letter to her mother describing her life; now she is sharing this soliloquy with others. Lunch at The Green Tea Room after a day of shopping was one of the few occasions when Jan Marquart felt a comfortable connection with her mom. This is why, decades after her mom's passing, she invites her there again. Over grilled cheese sandwiches and tea, Jan openly and unashamedly shares the complex feelings resulting from a lifetime of being raised by a mother who was unwilling or unable to let her go. Lunch with Mom: A Daughter's Soliloquy brings to light the awesome power a mother has over the life of her daughter. It is a bittersweet, fiery, reflective, and ultimately grateful tribute that will resonate with any daughter who has, or had, a complicated relationship with her mother.

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