Språk och litteraturvetenskap
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Silmät ilman kasvoja. Kauhu filosofiana
Kilpeläinen, Tapaniniin & näin 2016 1. utgåvaEnsimmäinen suomenkielinen kauhun filosofian esitys Silmät ilman kasvoja: kauhu filosofiana ottaa filosofisen skalpellin alle kauhufiktion moninaiset muodot aina Hoffmannin ja Love...
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Finnish grammar lessons -oppitunteja
Heikura, VuokkoVEA:n kielikoulu / VEA Books 2016 2. utgåvaFinnish grammar
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Talvisia merkintöjä kesän vaikutelmista
Dostojevski, Fjodor; Kartano, Tiinaniin & näin 2016 1. utgåvaSuuri venäläinen klassikko Fjodor Dostojevski (1821–1881) osallistui myös yhteiskunnalliseen keskusteluun aikakauslehdissä. Yksi hänen tärkeimmistä teemoistaan oli venäläisten suhd...
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Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa
Schiller, FriedrichOpen Book PublishersWithin two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on a rebellion in sixteenth century Italy, its title: The Con...
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Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
Miller, Amy; Halpern, A.MOpen Book PublishersThe Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and trad...
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Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation
Gildenhard, Ingo; Hodgson, LouiseOpen Book PublishersIn republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that wo...
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Dictionary of the British English Spelling System
Brooks, GregOpen Book PublishersThis book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It’s a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it...
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Denis Diderot's 'Rameau's Nephew': A Multi-media Edition
Diderot, DenisOpen Book PublishersIn a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil,...
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Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India
Open Book PublishersExamining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and...
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Mr. Emerson's Revolution
Open Book PublishersThis volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform...
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Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment
Open Book PublishersThis anthology, inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needed to be concise to have real influence, contains firey extracts from forty different authors, from the philosophers e...
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Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal: Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary
Mulligan, BretOpen Book PublishersTrebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campai...
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Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 1
Open Book PublishersVertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from th...
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Lögnarna: Om hur och varför andra människor ljuger
Grankvist, PerPocketförlagetVarje dag ser vi hur andra människor lägger filter på sina vardagsbilder i sociala medier eller skriver en uppdatering om hur bra de har det. Fula bilder är däremot lika ovanligt s...
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Utvalda Svenska verb översatta till Feyli kurdiska
Kamber, SaiwanBooks on DemandHuvudsyftet med denna bok är att ge läsaren en inblick i de verb som finns inom dialekten Feyli. Målgruppen är främst Feyli-talande kurder som vill lära sig mer om sitt eget moders...
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Elää, ajatella, katsoa
Hustvedt, SiriOtava 2016 1. utgåvaViisaissa ja tarkkanäköisissä kirjoituksissaan lukijoiden rakastama kirjailija pohtii, mitä on olla ihminen. Siri Hustvedt ammentaa kiehtovissa esseissään sekä omista kokemuksista...
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Fresh Leaves
Fern, FannyThe Floating Press 2016The columnist Sara Willis, who wrote under the pen name Fanny Fern, achieved a remarkable level of popularity and success over the course of her career. By the mid-1850s, she was t...
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Folly as It Flies
Fern, FannyThe Floating Press 2016In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper columnist Fanny Fern was one of the leading literary luminaries of the United States. Millions of readers obsessively read her weekly missi...
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Alussa oli murha. Johtolankoja rikoskirjallisuuteen
Arvas, PaulaGaudeamus 2016 1. utgåvaKuka murhasi ja kenet? Yli 150-vuotisen historiansa aikana rikoskirjallisuus on koukuttanut yhä uusia lukijoita haastamaan harmaat aivosolunsa ja ratkaisemaan arvoituksia yhdessä e...