Being called a "towhead" may seem offensive but it's not an insult. It only means you have very blond hair! Do you love words? Want to expand your vocabulary? Word Power will help you do just that. Now you can listen to the definitions and sample uses of 100 challenging words that may be unfamiliar or confusing. Based on the popular series by Peter Funk, this edition provides listeners with opportunities to amaze themselves, their families, and their friends with a robust and dyna...

This book is a collection of sixteen instrumentals arranged for acoustic lap steel guitar in D and G tuning. Lovely Hawaiian tunes such as "Aloha Oe" are included as well as more bluesy selections such as "Whistlin' Blues" and "Careless Love." The book even includes an Irish ballad, "Down by the Sally Gardens," arranged specifically to be played on a lap steel guitar. Special techniques such as "bar slants," natural harmonics," and "behind-the-bar-bends" are carefully explained. Includes a...

Now from Peter Funk, the Reader's Digest word columnist and the bestselling author of Word Power, comesUpsize Your Word Power, teaching you the fastest and easiest way to expand your vocabulary: the use of synonyms.Synonyms are a sound and often overlooked way to build vocabulary. With synonyms, you can express almost any shade of feeling or describe almost anything in minute detail. In Upsize Your Word Power, Peter and Ma...

Word Power is an easy-to-follow series of vocabulary lessons from master linguist Peter Funk. His proven techniques will dramatically help you to improve your vocabulary and express yourself more clearly and forcefully. You will also gain the confidence that comes from having exactly the right word for every situation.Word Power offers simple steps and helpful tips for developing a vocabulary that will:*help you to sound and feel better*make your wr...

Peter Funke bietet eine anregende, sehr gut verständliche Einführung in die Geschichte Athens in klassischer Zeit. Er beschreibt die Vertreibung des letzten athenischen Tyrannen, die demokratischen Reformen des Kleisthenes, die Zeit der Perserkriege, den Ersten attischen Seebund, die Zeit des Perikles,Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft Athens, Athen als Schule Griechenlands, den Peloponnesischen Krieg, den Zweiten attischen Seebund, den vergeblichen Kampf der Athener gegen die Makedonen und die N...

This title was originally published in 1967.Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.

Völkerwanderung, Varusschlacht. Mythologie: Dies sind nur einige Stichworte zu einem umfassenden Thema, mit welchem sich Frank Ausbüttel in seinem neuen Buch über die Germanen verständlich und klar gegliedert auseinandersetzt. Von der Herkunft der Germanen über ihre Auseinandersetzungen mit den Römern bis hin zum alltäglichen und gesellschaftlichen Leben wird ein kompakter Überblick geboten. Waren die Vandalen wirklich nur ein Volk plündernder Barbaren, oder gestaltet sich sowohl ihr Bild ...

Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder, and scout into fields that Ihde never tackled.Many of the contributors to this collection had especially close ties to Ihde and have benefited from close work with him. This combined w...

Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to apply and take account of conflict dynamics and the goal of peace. Yet, a number of key concerns...

Vor dem Hintergrund des zunehmenden Interesses an gestalteten Estrichflächen, die sich sowohl durch ihre Farbgebung als auch durch ein besonderes Design von einem rein funktionalen grauen Zementestrich unterscheiden, werden heutzutage wesentlich höhere Anforderungen an Ausgangsstoffe, Herstellung und insbesondere an die Pflege und Reinigung derartiger Estriche gestellt. Zunächst werden die Festlegungen im europäischen und nationalen Estrich-Regelwerk erläutert, wobei auf Ausgangsstoffe, He...

If the New Testament were a Broadway musical, Peter would be one of the stars. He lived life loud, while making his best effort to be one great disciple. Peter was like a modern day rock star, but his struggles were just like ours. If Jesus could shape Peter into a solid rock of a disciple, he can surely do the same for you. From his first call to follow, Peter was acutely aware of his own sinfulness. He wanted Jesus to go away, but ended up following. What makes people push Jesus away tod...

The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural histo...