The seventh edition of JANNACH'S GERMAN FOR READING KNOWLEDGE gives students in the humanities, arts, and social sciences a basic knowledge of German so they can begin to read specialized literature in their respective fields. Step-by-step grammar-translation explanations and practice provide motivated, research-oriented learners with a rapid bottom-up method to encode German; new features and online chapter-reading guides encourage top-down, reader-based strategies for global understanding and further extensive reading.