1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910150626103321

Autore

Pimsleur

Titolo

Pimsleur Spanish: Level 3

Pubbl/distr/stampa

: Pimsleur (Simon & Schuster)

ISBN

1-4423-1432-X

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Spanish is the official language of Spain and 21 Latin American countries, and is an official language of the U.N. Pimsleur's Spanish teaches an educated Latin American Spanish, with speakers from Colombia and Argentina in levels I-III, and from Mexico in level IV.The Pimsleur® Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to nearnative fluency. Spanish Phase 3 includes another 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of reading instruction, and is designed to be used after completion of Phases 1 and 2.The beginning 10 lessons of Phase 3 offer you the chance to expand your vocabulary and increase your fluency to an even higher level. Youll gain experience participating in many informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and semiprofessional topics. Youll skillfully form longer, more complex sentences, and most importantly, youll find yourself being understood, even by native speakers unused to dealing with foreigners. Youll be able to join in conversations effortlessly, confident of being understood.In the next 10 lessons of Phase 3 your skills will show everincreasing mastery of the language. Speaking with grace and complete naturalness, youll enjoy fluid conversations on many new subjects. Delving deeper into cultural norms and situations, youll find yourself responding effortlessly, and able to choose from a wide accumulation of vocabulary and structures.In the final 10 lessons of Phase 3, youre nearing fluency with agile responses, and a naturalsounding, nearnative accent. Youre able to



utilize the language in subtle ways, and speak using past, present, and future tenses. Selfconfidence soars as you experience the language and culture; no longer as a foreigner, but with a deepening insight into an expanding new world.Reading Lessons are included at the end of Unit 30. These lessons, which total about one hour, are designed to give you practice reading Spanish and to provide vocabulary. Before you know it, youll be reading Spanish with the ease and flexibility of a native speaker. A Reading Booklet to be used with the audio lessons is also included in PDF format.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959097403321

Autore

Almond Ian <1969->

Titolo

History of Islam in German thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche / / Ian Almond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-26889-4

1-282-31539-0

9786612315398

0-203-86728-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in cultural history ; ; 11

Disciplina

297.0943

Soggetti

Philosophy, German

Islam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Leibniz, Historicism and the Plague of Islam; 2 Kant, Islam and the Preservation of Boundaries; 3 Herder's Arab Fantasies; 4 Keeping the Turks Out of Islam: Goethe's Ottoman Plan; 5 Friedrich Schlegel and the Emptying of Islam; 6 Hegel and the Disappearance of Islam; 7 Marx the Moor; 8 Nietzsche's Peace with Islam; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most



important German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how these thinkers, within their own bodies of work, often espoused contradicting ideas about Islam and their nearest Muslim neighbors.  Exploring a variety of 'neat compartmentalizations' at work in the representations of Islam, as well as distinct vocabularies employed by these key intellectuals (theological, political, philological, poetic), Ian Almond parses these vocabularies to examine the importance of Is