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English for High-Flyers

a reference book for those who wish to perfect their English

Paperback || D. Butterman || Boom

English for High-Flyers

A reference book for those who wish to perfect their English

Why is it wrong to say 'of which three' instead of 'three of which'? Why should it be 'it is interesting' and not 'interesting is'? Did you know that we write and say 'insight into' and not 'insight in' and were you aware that the English word for alinea is 'paragraph' while a paragraaf is a 'section'?

These and hundreds of other linguistic pitfalls and grey areas have been skilfully identified, analysed and exp...

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The Story of Barzu / druk 1

As told by two storytellers from Boysun, Uzbekistan

2013 || Paperback || R. Rahmoni e.a. || Leiden University Press

In the area of Boysun, present-day Uzbekistan, there is a living and vivid oral tradition based on stories from the epic Shah-nama. Barzu, son of Suhrab, is tragically killed at the hands of his famous father, the legendary hero Rustam.

The storytellers Jura Kamol and Mullo Ravshan composed two different versions of the story of Barzu in the Tajik as spoken in this area. This is the first printed version including a translation of these stories to appear.

The stories have been transcribed and...

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Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog

interdisciplinary Studies of the "Other" in Literature & Internet Texts

2014 || Paperback || A.A. Seyed-Gohrab e.a. || Leiden University Press

Gog en Magog, als archetypen van het kwaad, spelen sinds hun verschijning in de Bijbel en de Koran een belangrijke rol. Van plattegronden tot literatuur en teksten, van middeleeuws Europa tot de Byzantijnse en Arabische wereld, van Berber tot Perzische en Indonesische tradities, en tot in het heden met teksten op internet: steeds weer komen deze monsterlijke wezens naar voren.

Deze 'Bijbelse' figuren worden in gezien als aankondigers van grote veranderingen, en worden afgebeeld met hondenhoof...

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The Rubáiyát of Khayyám / druk 1

an Updated Bibliography

Paperback || Jos Coumans || Leiden University Press

This book fills a gap by providing a new selection and description of almost 900 editions of the world-famous Persian quatrains: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. This is the first bibliography since the first Rubáiyát bibliography by A.G. Potter, published in 1929.

Omar Khayyám lived in the 11th Century. A Persian homo universalis, he was a mathematician, scientist, philosopher, astronomer and poet. He is believed to have written 200 to 600 Rubáiyát (quatrains) in Persian. His Rubáiyát ...

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The Necklace of the Pleiades / druk 1

24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion

2010 || Paperback || F. Lewis e.a. || Leiden University Press

‘The Necklace of the Pleiades’ is een boek over Perzische literatuur, cultuur en religie door onderzoekers uit de hele wereld. Dit boek weerspiegelt de stand zaken op het gebied van de Perzische literaire studies en is niet alleen van wezenlijk belang voor onderzoekers van de Iranese cultuur, geschiedenis en religies, maar zeker ook voor onderzoekers op het gebied van het Midden-Oosten en Zuid-Aziatische studies.

The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdow...

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Learn Chinese in One Day

Paperback || Jeanne Boden || PUNCT || met inkijkexemplaar

Language is more than just communication.

Learn Chinese in One Day discloses the

system of the Chinese characters and

analyzes how Confucianism and Taoism are

embedded in everyday language and how

language is used as a political, economic,

ethical, strategic and commercial tool.

Jeanne Boden (PhD) is author of

Contemporary Chinese Art. Post-socialist,

Post-traditional, Post-colonial; The

Wall behind China’s Open Door; Chinese

Propaganda Seducing the World; and

Cultural Quantum. A Practical ...

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Father of Persian Verse / druk 1

rudaki and his Poetry

2010 || Paperback || S. Tabatabai e.a. || Leiden University Press

Abu ‘Abdollâh' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which ruled much of Khorâsân (northeastern Persia) from its seat in Bukhara.

He is widely regarded as "the father of Persian poetry, for he was the first major poet to write in New Persian language, following the Arab conquest in the seventh and eighth centuries, which established Islam as the official religion, and made Arabic the predominant literary language in Persian-speaking lands for some two...

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Babad Tanah Jawi, The Chronicle of Java

The Revised Proze Version of C.F. Winter Sr

2022 || Hardcover || Willem Remmelink || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. At that time, Javanese was almost exclusively written in verse, which was not a medium suitable for the modern world that was dawning on Java. Although Winter achieved his aims in other ways and publications, the present text was mostly forgotten, or was just ...

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Discourses of Disruption in the Time of COVID

Creating and Contesting Meaning through Asian languages

2023 || Hardcover || Michael Ewing e.a. || Leiden University Press

'Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19' makes a unique contribution to research on meaning making in times of crisis. Using diverse analytical approaches to the study of languages in societies from the Asia-Pacific region, this volume explores the struggles over national identity and manifestations of socio-political issues in the context of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter interrogates how social actors in diverse c...

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Middle High German Legends in English Translation

2021 || Hardcover || Jef Jacobs e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

This book contains five legends from the German Middle Ages, presented in the Middle High German source language, with a modern English translation. These include the narratives of Veronica, Vespasian, Theophilus, Mary Magdalene and the miraculous history of the True Cross. Thisoutstanding and timely translation of these Middle High German texts will make them more accessible to an English speaking academic community.

The introduction provides an overview of Germanic legend research, discusses...