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A hallmark of scholarship in Great Britain, The Proceedings of the British Academy annually gathers together some of the finest lectures delivered in the previous year, sponsored by the Academy...

Provides entries under such topics as the natural and physical world, world history, the arts, the universe, and invention and technology

Offering a panoramic view of the history and culture of food and drink in America with fascinating entries on everything from the smell of asparagus to the history of White Castle, and the origin of...

Approximately 950 definitions. Intended to "unite epidemiologists around the world in furthering the more precise use of terms ..." Each entry gives brief definitions. References.

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Can you remember what happens at the end of 1984? Or what triggered Quentin Compson's suicide in The Sound and the Fury? Perhaps you need to know who won the National Book Award in 1960, how many...

An invaluable resource for teachers, teaching assistants, peer tutors and parents, The Practical Tutor provides a comprehensive guide to improving composition. It explores typical writing problems...

The third edition of this widely acclaimed modern classic brings fully up to date the most inclusive sourcebook on teaching writing today. Sixty percent of the selections are new, including a section...

This is the first volume in Oxford's famous "Companion" series on a scientific subject. A nonspecialist introduction to current scientific thought on all aspects of animal behavior, it contains over...

Most researchers, even with computers, find only a fraction of the sources available to them. As Library of Congress reference librarian Thomas Mann explains, researchers tend to work within one or...

In the classic Oxford Companion style, Philip Ward provides a comprehensive alphabetical reference to the authors, works, subjects, and characters from throughout the history of Spanish literature.

This dictionary is intended for all who are interested in epidemiology, including students of public health, those whose first language is not English and specialists in other fields who need to know...

This illustrated biographical dictionary is a cornucopia of information on the men and women who helped to shape 20th-century Britain. It is a unique record of the lives of 645 individuals whose...

Compiled from twenty-nine lists published in the Mineralogical Magazine 1897-1976, this work contains about 5500 entries collected in alphabetical order with a separate author index.

A guide to Latin during the Middle Ages.

From Anne Bradstreet's The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in the seventeenth century, to Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize in 1993, women writers have woven a rich tapestry of voices across four...