From the well known (plus зa change, plus c'est la mкme chose) to the not so familiar (amor de niсo, agua en cestillo), The Harper Dictionary of Foreign Terms defines more than 15,000 foreign words and phrases, from more than fifty languages, that have entered into English.
We often use euphemisms when dealing with taboo or sensitive subjects. We speak of "full-figured" women. We "fudge" on our income tax. We get "cold feet" before our wedding.
A brisk narrative of battles and plagues, monastic orders, heroic women, and knights-errant, barbaric tortures and tender romance, intrigue, scandals, and conquest, The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History mixes a spirited and entertaining writing style with exquisite, thorough scholarship. Barbara A. Hanawalt, a renowned medievalist, launches her story with the often violent amalgamation of Roman, Christian, and Germanic cultures following the destruction and pillaging of the crown jewel of the Roman Empirethe great city of Rome.
Over recent years the policy of isolating and institutionalizing mentally handicapped people has gradually been dismantled and a major shift to community care has taken place. But integration within the general community and access to special services has greatly increased the number of people with a need to know about mental handicap. Each profession or discipline has its own terminology; nowadays one must be conversant with all of them. In this comprehensive dictionary Mary Lindsey has brought together terms and concepts from a wide variety of fields.
Концептуальный словарь по математике! 2148 страниц терминов плюс постраничные ссылки на определения!!! ------ The Mathematical Society of Japan takes pleasure in presenting this second edition of our Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics to every researcher and user of mathematics. It is intended to be a compact, up-to-date source of information comprising, as completely as possible, all significant results in all fields of our Science, pure and applied, from the elementary to the advanced level.
