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Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact, Bella refuses to renounce her love for Shen, with whom she has vowed to share "in life one room, in death one tomb." The subversion of b...

Here is a unique look at the dynamics of the interplay between Spain, Mexico, the United States, and the Republic of Texas governments, heavily illustrated with maps, flags, portraits, and political cartoons. This book tells the story of an indomitable woman, Jane Long, who holds a prominent place in Texas history, and the tragedies, triumphs, and conflicts between fellow conspirators Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar.

Offers a discussion of fundamental characteristics, theories and applications for liquid-liquid colloidal dispersions. This title profiles experimental and traditional measurement techniques in a variety of emulsified systems, including rheology, nuclear magnetic resonance, dielectric spectroscopy, microcalorimetry, and video enhanced microscopy.

This book charts the bitter history between Russia and the Chechens and explains why the war took place.

John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for their generation prove remarkably timely -- even for the twenty-first century. Adams and Rush championed very different views on the nature of the American Revolution and of the republic established with the United States Constitution, yet they shared one of the most important correspondences of their...

A description of procedures for probing bond activation, H-bonded systems, molecular dynamical mechanisms, vibrational dephasing, simple liquids, and proteins and energy flow effects using ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy experiments. It discusses experimental and theoretical methods of ultrafast infrared and Raman measurements.

This reprint edition is the definitive book on the Steuben Glass Works and co-founder Frederick Carder. The special types of glass for which he was famed in the 1890-1930s era are presented, including Aurene, Tyrian, Verre de Soie, Cyprian, Ivrene, Cintra, Cluthra, Intarsia, Diatreta, and others, as well as all colors and the engraved, cut, and etched patterns. The photographs and line drawings from the Steuben catalogs bring the glass to life...

The colourful country patterns of spongeware and spatterware pottery, a traditional favourite of the public, remains enormously popular with today's many collectors of antique ceramics. This revised and expanded identification and price guide provides those collectors with an expansive pictorial cross-section of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century spongeware and spatterware. Additionally, the detailed text offers clear insight into t...

The plaster statuary groups by John Rogers were so appealing in late Victorian America that scarcely a family of reasonable means and taste did not possess one. He offered an unrivaled transcript of the social customs and modes of furnishing for the period. This book chronicles each Rogers group with a photograph, size, patent or design date, and pertinent anecdotes.

Gale and Poldens postcards of British uniforms are now widely collected but little is known about the artists and few of their original paintings have survived. Now over 130 of these rare works by artists such as Harry Payne, Edgar A. Holloway, John McNeill, and Ernest Ibbetson are reproduced here for the first time in full colour with background information as to how the pictures were created. This book is a useful reference for postcard coll...

Die Semantik räumlicher Ausdrücke gehört zu den zentralen Untersuchungsfeldern kognitiv orientierter Linguistik. Mit der Kombinatorik von Distanz- und Lokationsausdrücken existiert allerdings ein Bereich sprachlicher Phänomene, der bislang wenig und vor allem nicht adäquat behandelt worden ist. Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt diesen Phänomenbereich als Ausgangspunkt für eine interdisziplinär angelegte kognitionswissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur ...

Die Monographie erarbeitet einen theoretischen Rahmen für die Untersuchung sprachlicher Aneignungsprozesse im Kindesalter in mehrsprachigen Kontexten, der sowohl natürliche als auch gesteuerte Prozesse berücksichtigt. Die Grundannahme der Studie besteht darin, daß sich eine solche Zielsetzung nur auf der Basis interdisziplinärer Arbeit realisieren läßt, die neben linguistischer Forschung, sprachdidaktische und unterrichtswissenschaftliche Fors...

Ob Erdbeben, Schlammlawinen oder Überschwemmungen: Umweltkatastrophen können Telekommunikationsnetze komplett lahmlegen, wenn nicht durch geschickte Planung und sachgemäßes Management vorgebeugt wird. Manager und Techniker lernen mit diesem Buch strategisch zu denken, effektiv zu planen und schnell die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen. Mit vielen Fallbeispielen und Angaben zu juristischen Aspekten!

This volume brings together updated fundamental knowledge of the schistosomes, their biology and epidemiology, the mechanism of disease and a full description of the pathological sequelae in humans. It concludes with chapters on diagnosis and treatment prospects of vaccine development and the most significant controversies regarding immunology and epidemiology.

This vivid behind-the-scenes account of Israeli rule in Jerusalem details for the first time the Jewish state's attempt to lay claim to all of Jerusalem, even when that meant implementing harsh policies toward the city's Arab population.<, P>

Sprachwandel und Spracherwerb können als Entwicklung bzw. Rekonstruktion grammatischer Formen verstanden werden. Sowohl die Grammatikalisierungstheorie als auch Konzepte des Spracherwerbs machen den Vorgang als Abfolge von Reanalyse-Schritten und Rekodierungen verständlich. Die Grammatikalisierung wird sprachhistorisch ebenso wie beim Erwerb von der Medialität der Sprache, insbesondere der Schriftlichkeit, entscheidend mitbestimmt. Vor diesem ...

This book provides a guide to the use and meaning of toxicological and ecological information in the paper industry. For example, the information provided by suppliers of paper chemicals to paper mills is analysed in detail. This allows for greater understanding by users and therefore awareness of the possible implications of handling a given chemical with respect to its impact on the working environment, the final product and the environment ...

Die Arbeitsblätter dienen der Förderung und Diagnose des sinnerfassenden Lesens im 1. Schuljahr. Die ersten Blätter können schon bald nach Beginn des Leselehrgangs eingesetzt werden, die benötigten Buchstaben stehen am Fuß jeder Seite. Lernen, üben, überprüfen Die Arbeitshefte, Kopiervorlagen, Lernspiele sowie das Übungs- und Erarbeitungsmaterial decken die folgenden Bereiche ab: Schreiben/Rechtschreiben Sprache untersuchen/Gramma...

Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact, Bella refuses to renounce her love for Shen, with whom she has vowed to share "in life one room, in death one tomb." The subversion of b...