Название: Bible in Translation, The: Ancient and English Versions
Автор: Bruce Metzger
Издательство: Baker Academic
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 109
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

"The Bible in Translation" is a survey of the history and variety of Bible translations by the late Bruce M. Metzger, who was himself an eminent translator and New Testament scholar, having served on three translation committees, including as chairman of the NRSV committee. The book is divided into two parts: Ancient Versions and English Versions

Название: Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War (Studies in Modern British Religious History)
Автор: Julie Spraggon
Издательство: Boydell Press
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 337
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

This work offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, looking at the reasons for the resurgence of image-breaking a hundred years after the break with Rome, and the extent of the phenomenon. Initially a reaction to the emphasis on ceremony and the 'beauty of holiness' under Archbishop Laud, the attack on 'innovations', such as communion rails, images and stained glass windows, developed into a major campaign driven forward by the Long Parliament as part of its religious reformation. Increasingly radical legislation targeted not just 'new popery', but pre-Reformation survivals and a wide range of objects (including some which had been acceptable to the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church)

Название: English Grammar for the Utterly Confused (Utterly Confused Series)
Автор: Laurie Rozakis
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 258
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Anyone despairing over their child's--or their own--inability to write a well-formed paragraph should get this book. It's the ideal basic grammar book that makes grammar seem easy to understand and important. The writer, a professor, takes away most of the alienation factor

Название: Курс повторения основ английского языка. A Course of Basic English Revision
Автор: Турук И.Ф., Петухова М.В., Чеботарев Ю.С.
Издательство: Евразийский открытый институт
Год: 2003
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 189
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: Russian

Учебный материал дается по аспектам языка в виде таблиц и речевых образцов, что позволяет студенту восстановить в памяти забытое и систематизировать ранее изученный материал. Изучение материала осуществляется в той последовательности, которая предусмотрена структурой урока. Вначале идут упражнения раздела А на правила чтения и произношения слов с опорой на таблицы, которые выполняются после прослушивания речевых образцов и повторения их за диктором студентом

Название: Writing and Presenting in English. The Rosetta Stone of Science
Автор: Petey Young
Издательство: Elsevier Science
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 124
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

The Rosetta Stone of Science is a useful and practical guide to presenting scientific research in the English language. It is written specifically for scientists who would like to improve the effectiveness with which they use the English language and improve their communicative skills in order to become published and develop more confidence in presenting their work at international conferences.Part 1 of the book covers the style preferred by today's leading journals, discusses how to prepare models for writing research papers, and provides advice for writing abstracts, proposals, and editing

Название: Russian - English, English - Russian dictionary on probability, statistics, and combinatorics
Автор: K. A. Borovkov
Издательство: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; TVP Science Publishers
Год: 1987
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 163
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

This dictionary, with over 15,000 entries, seeks to help specialists to read and understand Russian language texts covering statistics, probability and combinatorics..

Название: Easier English basic synonyms
Автор: Jim Green
Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing
Год: 2004
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 129
Размер: 377 kB
Язык: English

It is designed for any student of English who wants to improve their vocabulary, especially anyone working towards elementary or pre-intermediate learners' exams such as the Preliminary English Test (PET) or the Key English Test (KET). Synonyms and related words are listed for each entry to show alternative meanings and expressions. Each synonym includes a definition and example sentence to help learners understand and use the word in the right context

Название: Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae PRAXIS: An English Translation with Commentary
Автор: Muriel Seltman, Robert Goulding
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 310
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

The present work is the first ever English translation of the original text of Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis, first published in 1631 in Latin. Thomas Harriot's Praxis is an essential work in the history of algebra. Even though Harriot's contemporary, Viete, was among the first to use literal symbols to stand for known and unknown quantities, it was Harriot who took the crucial step of creating an entirely symbolic algebra

Название: AppleScript Scripting Additions Guide: English Dialect
Автор: Apple Computer, Inc.
Издательство: Apple Computer Inc
Год: 1993
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 130
Размер: 476 kB
Язык: English

You'll find definitive coverage of the newest and most important technologies, such as QuickDraw 3D and Apple Guide. You'll also find the classic cornerstones of Macintosh development, like Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide, and Planning and Managing AppleTalk Networks.Care has been taken to provide the information using the most appropriate medium

Название: The Little Oxford Guide to English Usage
Автор: E. S. C. Weiner, Andrew Delahunty, Janet Whitcut
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Год: 1995
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 219
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Have you ever had doubts about when to hyphenate two words? Confused over whether you should disassociate or dissociate yourself from something? Do you know when to spell doggie as doggy? Is it really a rule that a preposition should never fall at the end of a sentence? Now there is a singleconvenient source you can turn to with all your questions about how to speak and write more clearly: The Oxford Guide to English Usage, now available in a completely revised New Edition.In The Oxford Guide to English Usage Andrew Delahunty and Edmund Weiner (co-editor of the twenty-volume revised Oxford English Dictionary) provide succinct, practical advice on problems that writers struggle with every day. Designed for daily use, this marvelous handbook is organized according tobasic themes (Word Formation, Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar, Punctuation) and written to address the actual needs of a typical writer