Columbia University Press
Bibliography of sources on the region of former Yugoslavia; v.2.
The first volume of The Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia was published in 1998. Consequently, about 60 percent of this volume is dedicated to material published subsequent to 1998, the majority of which deal with the break up of Yugoslavia and the affairs of the successor states, while the remaining listings consist of materials compiled after publication of the first volume. The multilingual bibliographic entries list author's name, title of the work, and basic publishing information. They are organized into sections on agriculture, archaeology and early and ancient history, arts and sciences, bibliographies and directories, travel and culinary skills, fiction set in the former Yugoslavia, geography, history, languages, literature, philosophy, politics and government, the destruction of Yugoslavia from 1998, religion, social sciences, and expatriates. Some unpublished primary sources from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy are listed, as are some audiovisual sources. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The Columbia guide to Hiroshima and the bomb.
Part of a valuable series, this volume provides a rich resource to the complex and often profoundly controversial questions surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. A narrative history of the events and discussion leading up to the bombing, its aftermath, and effects on foreign policy and other issues forms the first section, followed by a chapter discussing ten key questions and interpretations of the bombing. These two sections form a prelude to the book's main focus: over 250 pages of primary documents, grouped into ten sections, including American civilian documents, MAGIC diplomatic summaries, Japanese government documents — including military documents and diary entries — and Japanese surrender documents. A glossary of names, chronology, and bibliography are provided. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The essential Scots dictionary; Scots-English, English-Scots. (reprint, 1996)
The extensive entries here include modern Scots with common literary terms, grammar notes (including a hint on how to decipher rhyming slang), verb lists, spelling guidelines, help with pronunciation, maps and a brief history of the Scots language. Each entry is concise and compact and many contain extensive cross-references. Although designed to encourage the use of Scots in schools, and accompanied by extensive educational material including worksheets and a Grammar Broonie (summary of Scots grammar), this is also useful for Scots who travel outside their locality and are confounded by the difference between a maw in Shetland and a Maw in Edinburgh. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
A glossary of English grammar.
From "abstract noun" to "zero relative pronoun," Leech (emeritus, English Linguistics, Lancaster U.) offers definitions and explanations of the terminology of English grammar in this cross- referenced glossary. The selected terms have been taken from the Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, of which Leech was a coauthor. Distributed in the US by Columbia U. Press. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Narration and knowledge; including the integral text of Analytical philosophy of history.
In 1961-62 Danto (philosophy, Columbia U.) wrote this treatise dealing with whether explanations in history are logically of a piece with that in the natural sciences, and hence whether there is finally an essential unity in all the sciences, natural as well as human, at least with respect to the structure of explanations. The first edition was published in 1965, and the second in 1985. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The researcher's guide; film, television, radio and related documentation collections in the UK.
Researchers, students and enthusiasts can find nearly every image, recording and scrap of documentation relating to the mass media in the UK here, with reviews of the collections, information on locations and contacts, hours of operation, and web addresses. The result is not only a very good reference but fascinating reading in itself, as one ponders how certain parties acquired extensive unpublished on-set still photographs of major productions and how collections associated with schools of film or literature chose to collect television advertisements. This lists collections relating to film, television, radio and related documentation for the UK and the Republic of Ireland along with research organizations and services and a well-ordered subject index. Distributed by Columbia University Press. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Text world theory; an introduction.
Gavins (English language and literature, U. of Sheffield) offers a textbook for an introductory course in the model of human language processing that is based on the notions of mental representation found in cognitive psychology and shares experimentalist principles of cognitive linguistics. Distributed in the US by Columbia University Press. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
