Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is a brilliant mystery set in a fictitious medieval monastery. The text is rich with literary, historical, and theoretical references that make it eminently re-readable. The Key makes each reading fuller and more meaningful by helping the interested reader not merely to read but also to understand Eco's masterful work. Inspired by pleas from friends and strangers, the authors, each trained in Classics, undertook to translate and explain the Latin phrases that pepper the story. They have produced an approachable, informative guide to the book and its setting--the middle ages. The Key includes an introduction to the book, the middle ages, Umberto Eco, and philosophical and literary theories; a useful chronology; and reference notes to historical people and events. The clear explanations of the historical setting and players will be useful to anyone interested in a general introduction to medieval history. Adele J. Haft is Associate Professor of Classics, Hunter College, City University of New York. Jane G. White is chair of the Department of Languages, Dwight Englewood School. Robert J. White is Professor of Classics and Oriental Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York.

The Key to The Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English Passages (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

White, Robert J.

Haft, Adele J.

White, Jane G.

Religion & Spirituality

University of Michigan Press

A learned and lively collection of more than 1,000 surprising and intriguing words that English has borrowed from other languages, along with their often tantalizing histories and etymologies. The word book for people who speak foreign languages every day, whether they know it or not.

An Avalanche of Anoraks

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Three Rivers Press

Sagebrush Heritage: Early Memories of a Homesteader Kid

R.J. White,c1987

Tamarack White, Orygun Seabee in war and peace

Sagebrush Heritage

Rna Polymerase III Transcription (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

R G Landes Co

For more than twenty years, the Island Queen carried day-trippers on the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Coney Island amusement park. Built in 1925, with paddlewheels thirty feet in diameter and a capacity of 4,100 passengers, she was one of the largest passenger steamers on the inland river system. Taking thousands of city dwellers each day out of the heat and soot of Cincinnati and into the cool river breezes, the gleaming white boat was called "a fairy steamer, the dream of every riverman." When the Island Queen finished her summer season, she ran excursions along the inland waterways from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Constructed of steel and meticulously maintained, the Island Queen seemed destined for a long service life. But in 1947 a freak welding accident at the dock in Pittsburgh caused a catastrophic explosion that left the once proud steamer a scorched and twisted ruin.John and Robert White tell the story of the Island Queen in evocative detail, from her construction to her tragic end. The boats that came before her, including the Princess and the Island Maid, add their part to the story, as does a brief history of Coney Island amusement park. More than sixty photographs and illustrations bring back the placid days when the Island Queen paced up and down the river at her ease, a symbol of summer pleasures still vivid in the memory of many Ohioans.

The Island Queen: Cincinnati's Excursion Steamer (Ohio History & Culture Series)

History

White, John H.

Americas

Univ of Akron Pr

The Island Queen: Cincinnati's Excursion Steamer

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

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