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Original in concept, broad in scope and rich in content, this remarkable volume presents the living language of Mongolia, contained in some 26,500 main entries and many subsidiary ones. Compiled over thirty years, it has drawn upon contemporary material such as Mongolian newspapers, journals, magazines and books in many fields, purposely avoiding published dictionaries in order to avoid lexicographical stereotypes. The result is a unique and vivid work that keeps pace with a changing language that reflects the rapidly evolving social and political arena of Mongolia today. Ten years after the publication of the first edition, this revised volume contains new material that shows the remarkable evolution in the vocabulary of Mongolian in the last few years, especially in relation to business. The language of the dictionary is the modern idiom of the Khalkha language, with keywords in the Cyrillic script and definitions in English. This unique volume is an essential work of reference for students of the Mongolian language, and those whose interest in Mongolia stems from government service, journalism or business.

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Chapters: Michael Oakeshott, George Hogg, Patrick Heron, Andrew Hunter, Francis Hollis, Peter Alan Rayner, Frances Lincoln, Owen Farrell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Joseph Oakeshott (December 11, 1901 December 19, 1990) was an English philosopher who wrote about political thought, and the philosophy of history, religion, aesthetics, and law. He is widely regarded as one of the most important conservative intellectuals of the twentieth century, although he has also been characterized as a liberal thinker. His father, Joseph Oakeshott, was a civil servant and a leading member of the Fabian Society. George Bernard Shaw was a friend. Michael Oakeshott attended St. George's School, Harpenden from 1912 to 1920. He enjoyed his schooldays, and the Headmaster Cecil Grant later became a friend. In 1920 he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to read history, obtaining his MA, and subsequently became a Fellow. While at Cambridge, he admired the British Idealist philosopher, J. M. E. McTaggart, and the medieval historian Zachary Nugent Brooke. The historian Herbert Butterfield was a contemporary and fellow member of the Junior Historians society. Oakeshott was dismayed by the descent into political extremism that took place in Europe in the 1930s, and his surviving lectures from this period reveal a dislike of National Socialism and Marxism. Although his 1939 essay 'The Claim of Politics' defended the right of individuals not to become directly involved, in 1941, Oakeshott joined the British Army in its fight against Nazi Germany. He was on active service in Europe with the intelligence unit Phantom, which had SAS connections, though he was never in the front line. In 1945, Oakeshott was demobilized and returned to Cambridge for two y...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=389912 ... Read more