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Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as well as an important new introduction by the award-winning...
8) Helvetica
Publisher
Plexifilm
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
12) Funny games
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Michael Haneke's controversial thriller watches an affluent couple, their child and dog as they arrive at their lakeside vacation home. Settling into their holiday routine, the family is visited by a pair of clean-cut young men in tennis whites and gloves, who inexplicably turn ruthless and brutal, forcing the family into playing their 'funny games.'"--Container.
17) Good bye, Lenin!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.
Author
Publisher
AM Editores
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The success of a home's design depends on two basic aspects that need to be taken into account. First of all, there are the wishes, lifestyle, taste and preferences of the inhabitants. Secondly, current trends in decoration cannot be left outside. The true challenge is to harness both as well as to consider the practicality, functionality an aesthetic qualities required by the present age. These innovative interior solution must encompass decorative...
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