Author: Peter Haugen
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: dummies, history, world
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0470446544
ISBN-13: 9780470446546

Now updated! Your personal tour guide to the history of the world Want to know more about global history? This concise guide explains in clear detail all the major players and events that have made the world what it is today. Covering the entirety of human history, this comprehensive resource highlights important developments in everything from religion and science to art and war — giving you an understanding of how the 21st-century world came to be. Begin to connect with the past — label the eras as you meet the Neanderthals, home in on Homer, raise Atlantis, and prese

Author: Peter Haugen
Publisher: IDG Books
Keywords: dummies, history, world
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0764552422
ISBN-13: 9780764552427

If history scares you or bores you silly, that’s probably because a teacher once required you to memorize a bunch of dates – when things like the Magna Carta and the Versailles Treaty were signed, for example. Admittedly, dates are a big part of history, but only because historical events happened in a certain order. If Columbus hadn’t sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, the Mayflower Pilgrims might not have looked west for a place to practice their Puritan religion almost 130 years later. The eventual outcome? No day-after-Thanksgiving mob scenes at the ma

Authors:Peter Haugen, William J. Cannon,
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: decade, science, century, twentieth, biology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-06-08
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0816055300
ISBN-13: 9780816055302

Author: Haugen
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Keywords: drama, ibsens
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 1979-09-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0816608938
ISBN-13: 9780816608935

Ibsen’s Drama was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions."A dramatist for all seasons" Einar Haugen calls Henrik Ibsen in this series of lectures given in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Norwegian playwright’s birth. Using a modified version of the communications model developed by linguist Roman Jakobson, Haugen provides a readable, succinct analysis of Ibsen’s thinking and dramaturgy. He examine

Author: Brenda Haugen
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Keywords: signature, lives, primatologist, legendary, goodall, jane
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-02-22
List price: $31.93
ISBN-10: 0756515904
ISBN-13: 9780756515904

Author: Brenda Haugen
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Keywords: ser, celebrations, holidays, easter
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2003-09
List price: $22.60
ISBN-10: 1404801944
ISBN-13: 9781404801943

Colored eggs, candy, and church are Easter celebrations. Learn about this springtime holiday that is celebrated in many parts of the world.

Author: Einar Haugen
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: norwegian, dictionary, introduction, historical, grammatical, nynorsk, modern, english, pronouncing, translating, bokmal
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 1974-05-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0299038742
ISBN-13: 9780299038748

For more than forty years, the Haugen Norwegian–English Dictionary has been regarded as the foremost resource for both learners and professionals using English and Norwegian. With more than 60,000 entries, it is esteemed for its breadth, its copious grammatical detail, and its rich idiomatic examples. In his introduction, Einar Haugen, a revered scholar and teacher of Norwegian to English speakers, provides a concise overview of the history of the language, presents the pronunciation of contemporary Norwegian, and introduces basic grammatical structures, including the inflection of nouns and