У книзі Лариси Масенко - одного за найавторитетніших соціолінгвістів України - читач знайде відповіді на багато цікавих і гострих запитань. Чи може існувати і розвиватися в Україні багато мов і чи можуть бути державними дві мови? Що відбувається сьогодні з українською мовою і який досвід у вирішенні мовних проблем мають інші європейські країни? Що загрожує українській мові і що - російській? Яких помилок припустилися і припускаються українські політики та громадські діячі у мовному питанні? Про все це та багато іншого Ви дізнаєтеся на сторінках цієї книги, призначеної не лише для шкільної та студентської аудиторії, а й для журналістів, учителів та всіх допитливих і небайдужих.

Археология - сравнительно молодая наука. Но тем не менее именно благодаря ей человечество смогло узнать многие тайны своего прошлого. Великие археологические открытия, сделанные на протяжении последних двухсот лет, позволили приоткрыть завесу над загадкой происхождения человека, восстановить историю древнейших цивилизаций Месопотамии, Египта, Средиземноморья и Америки, познакомиться с достижениями величайших культур древнего мира. Книга рассказывает об истории самых значительных археологических открытий, о раскрытых и пока еще нераскрытых тайнах древности.

Города начинались по-разному. Одни вставали на перекрестках караванных путей, другие поднимались в безлюдных пустынях. Есть города-крепости, города-казармы, города, выросшие вокруг речных пристаней или морских портов, монастырей, фабрик или рынков. Грешный Вавилон и святой Иерусалим, вечный Рим и запретная Лхаса, деловая Женева и карнавальный Рио, таинственная Чичен-Ица и гостеприимный Париж, высокогорный Ла-Пас и отвоеванный у моря Амстердам... Новая книга из серии "100 великих" расскажет об истории и судьбе как исчезнувших городов древности, так и о тех, которые пронесли через века свой неповторимый облик.

По Парижу приятно гулять, бесцельно бродить, кружить по узким улочкам, отдыхать в маленьких кафе и в парках у фонтанов. Здесь есть все для любителей архитектуры, ценителей живописи, театралов, меломанов, гурманов, поклонников всевозможных развлечений. Париж притягивает, удивляет, очаровывает, постепенно приоткрывая тайны любознательному гостю, который теряется от сложности выбора: что же увидеть прямо сейчас, а что отложить на потом. Мои 112 страниц про Париж, надеюсь, помогут сделать этот выбор. Предложенные 7 прогулок по городу включают в себя не только известные всему миру достопримечательности, но и множество других, которые часто остаются за пределами стандартных туристических маршрутов.

This text by Tim Newark explores some of the fascinating peoples who comprised the ancient armies of the Middle East: the Sumerians, who were the first to introduce the use of bronze into warfare, and were centuries ahead of the Egyptians in the use of the wheel - The Akkadians, whose citizen army was composed almost entirely of light troops - The Babylonians, whose people were granted land in return for army service - the horned warriors of the Elamites - the Egyptians, with thier heavy spearmen and archers - the tribal and warlike Libyans - Nubians and Ethiopians - Hyksos - the armies of the Hittite Empire - the Sea People and others.

Complex and unstable, in 922 BC the kingdom of Ancient Israel was divided into Judah, in the South, and Israel, in the North. For the next 200 years, there was almost constant warring between these kingdoms and their neighbors. These bitter feuds eventually led to the collapse of Israel, leaving Judah as a surviving nation until the emergence of the Babylonian Empire, the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, and the exile of the Jewish people. Using ancient Jewish, Biblical, and other contemporary sources, this title examines the politics, fighting, and consequences of Israel's battles during this period. Focusing on the turbulent relationship between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, this book explains Israel's complex, often bloody, foreign policy, and provides a definitive history of these ancient conflicts.

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In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and National Culture asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between the seventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalists, historians, novelists, poets and comedians continue to speak through the voice of a long-standing empiricist tradition.

Is Islam compatible with human rights? This fundamental question has generated a large body of literature addressing the question from different, often opposing, positions. The literalist reading of Islam emphasises the gaps between the limits of tolerance and acceptability in the Quràn and Hadith on the one hand, and internationally-sanctioned standards for human rights. The status of women and religious freedom are often the two key area of contention.

This book examines the doctrine of transgenerational punishment found in the Decalogue-that is, the idea that God punishes sinners vicariously and extends the punishment due them to three or four generations of their progeny. Though it was "God-given" law, the unfairness of punishing innocent people merely for being the children or grandchildren of wrongdoers was clearly recognized in ancient Israel. A series of inner-biblical and post-biblical responses to the rule demonstrates that later writers were able to criticize, reject, and replace this problematic doctrine with the alternative notion of individual retribution. From this perspective, the formative canon is the source of its own renewal: it fosters critical reflection upon the textual tradition and sponsors intellectual freedom. To support further study, this book includes a valuable bibliographical essay on the distinctive approach of inner-biblical exegesis showing the contributions of European, Israeli, and North American scholars. An earlier version of the volume appeared in French as L′Herméneutique de l′innovation: Canon et exégèse dans l′Israël biblique. This new Cambridge release represents a major revision and expansion of the French edition, nearly doubling its length with extensive new content. Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel opens new perspectives on current debates within the humanities about canonicity, textual authority, and authorship. Bernard M. Levinson holds the Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on biblical and cuneiform law, textual reinterpretation in the Second Temple period, and the relation of the Bible to Western intellectual history. His book Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (1997) won the 1999 Salo W. Baron Award for Best First Book in Literature and Thought from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is also the author of "The Right Chorale" : Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (2008), and editor or coeditor of four volumes, most recently, The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (2007). The interdisciplinary significance of his work has been recognized with appointments to the Institute for Advanced Study (1997); the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (2007); and, most recently, the National Humanities Center, where he will serve as the Henry Luce Senior Fellow in Religious Studies for the 2010-2011 academic year.

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