Added by: alexa19 | Karma: 4030.50 | Science literature, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 24 February 2008
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Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong “Encyclopedia of GIS"
Springer-Verlag,N.Y. | 2008-01 | ISBN-10: 0387359737 | PDF | 1370 pages | 35,4 Mb
This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work for scholars of geo-informatics, geography, and computer systems supporting geographical information delivery.
Entries include short definitions as well as in-depth essays. A simple A-Z format provides easy access to relevant information within the area covered by this book project. Extensive cross-references using keywords to related essays will be provided to support efficient searches in a user-friendly manner.
Visual Thesaurus - словарь и тезаурус, 145000 английских слов и 115000 значений, представленных для более лёгкого и удобного запоминания. Идея визуального представления тесно связана с теорией "mind-maps". Размер - 38 Mb Данный тезаурус даёт возможность найти и исследовать значения слов, проследить связи между словами, услышать их произношение.
The Visual Thesaurus is a dictionary and thesaurus with an intuitive interface that encourages exploration and learning. Available in both a Desktop Edition and an Online Edition, the Visual Thesaurus is a marvelous way to improve your vocabulary and your understanding of the English language.
Book Description
All cultures everywhere have attempted to
change their body in an attempt to meet their cultural standards of
beauty, as well as their religious and or social obligations. In
addition, people modify and adorn their bodies as part of the complex
process of creating and re-creating their personal and social
identities. Body painting has probably been practiced since the
Paleolithic as archaeological evidence indicates, and the earliest
human evidence of tattooing goes back to the Neolithic with mummies
found in Europe, Central Asia, the Andes and the Middle East.
Adornments such as jewelry have been found in the earliest human graves
and bodies unearthed from five thousand years ago show signs of
intentional head shaping. It is clear that adorning and modifying the
body is a central human practice. Over 200 entries address the major
adornments and modifications, their historical and cross-cultural
locations, and the major cultural groups and places in which body
modification has been central to social and cultural practices. This
encyclopedia also includes background information on the some of the
central figures involved in creating and popularizing tattooing,
piercing, and other body modifications in the modern world. Finally,
the book addresses some of the major theoretical issues surrounding the
temporary and permanent modification of the body, the laws and customs
regarding the marking of the body, and the social movements that have
influenced or embraced body modification, and those which have been
affected by it. Entries include, acupuncture, amputation, Auschwitz,
P.T. Barnum, the Bible, body dysmorphic disorder, body piercing,
branding, breast augmentation and reduction, Betty Broadbent,
castration, Christianity, cross dressers, Dances Sacred and Profane,
Egypt, female genital mutilation, foot binding, freak shows, genetic
engineering, The Great Omi, Greco-Roman world, henna, infibulation,
legislation & regulation, lip plates, medical tattooing,
Meso-America, military tattoos, National Tattoo Association, nose
piercing, obesity, permanent makeup, primitivism, prison tattooing,
punk, rites of passage, scalpelling, silicone injections, Stalking Cat,
suspensions, tanning, tattoo reality shows, tattooing, Thailand,
transgender, tribalism.
This is the English-Spanish version of Usborne's Beginner's Spanish Dictionary. http://englishtips.org/index.php?newsid=1150796947
This time you have ALL the images labelled in English. You can use them as flashcards or with a little image editing, change the Spanish vocabulary box into you own language.
This colorful, humorously illustrated dictionary is devised to make language learning easy and fun. It contains about 2,000 everyday words and phrases. The words are grouped thematically and illustrated with amusing pictures and busy scenes so that beginners are introduced to them in context.
Make them laugh with the help of this fully illustrated, all-in-color A-Z guide that shows you how to put a funny idea or sharp observation across in visual comic style.
