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GENERAL WORKS 1 ACSADI (Gy.) and J. NEMESKERI. History of Humán Life Span and Mortality. 8vo, cloth, pp. 370. 1970. c. L5 This monograph is the result of co-operation between anthropologist and demo-grapher. The book discusses the process of the increasing of humán life span and the history of...

GONTENTSPageGeneral Works 1Africa 14Near East 33India, Pakistan, Burma,Ceylon 63Far EastChina, JapanKorea 80Gentral Asia 102South-East Asia 106PageHebrew, Syriac, Goptic, Ethiopic 116Egyptology, Assyriology 123Linguistics 130 Microfilm and Microfiche Editions 141Additional...

HEFFER CATALOGUE 880 ORIENTAL AND AFRIČAN STUDIES This is a selection of recent, forthcoming and secondhand books. A spécial feature is the inclusion of reprints of books which have been scarce for many years. Orders for items which are still in préparation will be acknow-ledged and...

PREFACE Although the compilation of this dictionary was begun under the impulse of the events that took place in Hungary in October and November, 1956, it claims to be more than a convenient tool to help the Hungarian refugees arriving in this country. It claims to be the only Hungarian-English...

Introduction The Grammar and the Dictionary. Every language, or variety of language, is made up of an enormous number of units vaguely considered and loosely designated as words. In each language (or variety of language), a word has one or more meanings or semantic functions. In order to know...

Preface to First and Second Editions. When the foreign student of English first comes to England he realizes, as perhaps he has never realized before, the difference between possessing a theoretical knowledge of the language and possessing the capacity for using the language in everyday speech....