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Oxford Quick ReferenceOver 5,500 entries - all fully revised and updated for this new edition. Also features new entries, such as nature writing, Lee Child, and vampires in literature.Covers world fiction, literary theory, historical and cultural context.Appendices include lists of literary prize winners, as well as a historical timeline charting the development of literature through the ages.Extended entries give fascinating and informative discursive overviews of major genres in fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, biography, and crime fiction.Written by a team of more than 140 distinguished contributors, edited by Dinah Birch and Katy Hooper.Based on the acclaimed 7th edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature, published in 2009.New to this Edition:Over 5,500 new and thoroughly revised A-Z entries, encompassing recent writers, scholarship, and approaches to literature.Improved representation of many areas including postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literatureAll appendices have been revised and updatedA-Z features recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website

This is the most popular dictionary of physics available, and contains almost 4,000 entries covering all commonly encountered physics terms and concepts. It also defines many terms from the related fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and physicalchemistry. With over 200 new entries and full revision of the existing text, A Dictionary of Physics is as essential a reference tool as before.

Over 3,100 clear, concise entriesCovers both human and physical geography, including cartography, surveying, meteorology, climatology, ecology, population, industry, and developmentUp-to-date entries on areas such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and glacial geomorphology, as well as the inclusion of more international coverageRecommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Geography companion websiteNew to this Edition:More than 400 new entries, including economies of scope, marginalization, rurality, and tax havens and offshore financial centresUp-to-date entries on areas such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and glacial geomorphology

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This beautifully illustrated dictionary helps young learners to practise over 800 words for 40 topics taught in school, including People at Work, My Body, and What's the Time?On every page, you'll find conversation-based activities that draw on children's everyday experiences, making learning relevant and memorable. The audio CD includes 20 songs, helping students to remember new language, while developing their pronunciationand fluency. The dictionary also covers all the Cambridge English: Young Learners topics, to build children's confidence ahead of test day.Fun activities to get children talkingOn every page, you'll find conversation-based activities that draw on children's everyday experiences - making learning relevant and memorable. They are simple enough for parents and children to do together at home - or teachers can use them in class.And don't forget to search for the hidden dinosaur in each picture!Matched to your Oxford coursebookThe Oxford Children's Picture Dictionary is the ideal companion to any primary coursebook. We've matched the topics to our most popular titles, including Family and Friends, Everybody Up, and Treetops, so students can practise the same vocabulary indifferent ways at home or in school.20 songs develop fluencyChildren will enjoy singing along to the songs in class, at home, or in the car. They recycle the words in each topic, helping students to remember new language, while developing their pronunciation and fluency.Preparing for Cambridge English: Young Learners?Getting ready for tests can be daunting, but practise makes perfect! The Oxford Children's Picture Dictionary covers all the Cambridge English: Young Learners topics, to build students' confidence ahead of test day.

New edition of the standard quick reference work on linguisticsOver 3,250 entries spanning this multidisciplinary field, covering everything from phonetics, to sociolinguistics, to formal semanticsCovers the theory of language and language history, as well as the classification of languagesFeatures biographical entries of key figures in linguisticsHelpful examples convey the meaning of even the most technical termsNew to this Edition:Over 100 new entries, including many terms in the fields of semantics and syntactic theory

Includes over 7,100 entries - over 100 new to this edition including bitcoin, Cog's Ladder, mobile commerce, Six Sigma, social media, theory of institutional deficiencies, and zero-hours contractCovers all areas of business and management, including marketing, organizational behaviour, business strategy, law, international finance, technology, and taxationElucidates modern financial and management jargon, defining entries in a clear, concise, and accessible mannerUp-to-date coverage of the latest developments and topics, including the sovereign debt crisis, corporate social responsibility, and the recent comprehensive changes to UK accounting rulesRecommended web links for many entries, accessible and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Business and Management companion website

Contains approximately 3,500 entries on all aspects of economics from core concepts in macroeconomics, microeconomics, and econometrics to specialised terms in fields including development, finance, game theory, and taxationRevised and updated to feature over 90 completely new terms such as austerity measures, General Anti Abuse Rule, propensity score matching, and shadow bankFeatures global coverage including on emerging economies such as China, India, and South AmericaAppendices include Nobel Prize winners, the Greek alphabet, and institutional acronyms with the official website listed for each organizationRecommended web links for many entries, listed and regularly updated on the Dictionary of Economics companion websiteNew to this Edition:More than 90 new terms, including austerity measures, General Anti Abuse Rule, propensity score matching, and shadow bankFeatures increased coverage of emerging economies such as China, India, and South America

Thoroughly revised and updated to include the latest research Over 700 entries new to this edition, including aerial plankton, cyclone collector, oasis, and supertramp Social as well as scientific focus: comprehensive coverage of the social aspect of environmental science (including treaties, organisations, and agencies relating to the environment) as well as ecology Appendices provide sources of online data on the environment, international environment treaties, the Beaufort scale of wind strength, the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale, the Fujita scale of tornado intensity, the Torino asteroid and comet impacthazard scale, the Richter earthquake magnitude and modified Mercalli earthquake intensity scales, a geological time-scale, the chemical elements, and SI units and conversions Features recommended web links that are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website Includes line drawings to illustrate entries

Over 7,500 clear and concise entries, covering the fields of geology and earth sciencesFully revised and updated, including 150 new entries, with expanded coverage of geology and planetary geologyMore than 130 line drawings complement definitionsUseful appendices include a revised geological time scale, an updated bibliography, stratigraphic units, lunar and Martian time scales, wind-strength scales, and SI unitsWeb links listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion websiteNew to this Edition:150 new entriesExpanded coverage of geology and planetary geology terms

1,100 up-to-date entries on all topics of education, from terminology and qualifications to statutes and biographies of key figuresCovers pre-school, primary, secondary, further and higher education, special needs, adult and continuing education, and work-based learningIncludes terms from related disciplines, e.g. sociology and psychologyKey educational terms from the US, Australia, Canada, and South Africa in cross-referenced appendix, as well as a table of national qualifications that shows where equivalence in level is claimed to exist between general and vocational qualificationsEntry-level web links - accessible and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Education companion websiteNew to this Edition:More detailed coverage of the following areas: the core vocabulary of education (e.g. curriculum and theories of learning)

More than 1,900 entries covering periods, styles, materials, well-known schools, foreign terms, techniques, and art historical termsRevised and completely updated content to reflect changes since 2001More than 100 new entries covering modern and contemporary art techniques and materialsOver 100 entry-level weblinks, accessible and kept updated via a companion websiteAuthored by Michael Clarke, an eminent expert in the field and currently the Director of the National Gallery of ScotlandNew to this Edition:More than 100 new entries covering modern and contemporary art, including Agit-prop, industrial design, and White CubeOver 100 entry-level weblinks, accessible and kept updated via a companion websiteRevision and expansion of the existing entries to reflect changes since 2001Virtual thumbtabs to increase ease of browsing

Third EditionEdited by Anne Kerr and Edmund WrightOxford Quick ReferenceFully revised and updated history dictionary, containing over 4,000 clear, concise, and accessible entriesIncludes biographies of key figures in world history, from Alexander the Great to Pope Francis, Elizabeth I to Nelson MandelaInternational coverage: detailed entries for every country in the worldIn-depth entries on religious and political movements, international organizations, and key battles and their after-effectsDetailed maps covering events and topics such as Black Death, the American War of Independence, and the Ottoman EmpireEntry-level web links listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of even the most complex literary terms from abjection to zeugma. An essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Recommended web links are availablevia a companion website.Table of ContentsPrefacePronunciationLiterary Terms A-ZBibliography

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Over 3,000 authoritative entries with clear and concise definitionsWide-ranging coverage of pure and applied mathematics and statisticsClearly illustrated with charts, diagrams, and graphsAppendices of useful tables and lists including areas and volumes, inequalities, Roman numerals, and Greek lettersIncludes mathematics of more general interest, such as fractals, game theory, and chaos theoryRecommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Mathematics companion websiteNew to this Edition:Almost 200 new entries on terms such as Abel's limit theorem, arrow paradox, dichotomy, and symbolic logicNew appendices on Millennium Prize problems, additional trigonometric values of special angels, as well as summaries of geometry, probability distribution, and algebra

More than 12,400 authoritative and accessible entries on all aspects of medical scienceFully updated for this new edition - with expanded coverage of areas including public health medicine and general practice, drugs and pharmacology, endocrinology (particularly diabetology), and cardiologyMore than 145 illustrations accompany the A-Z entriesRecommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via a companion webpage on oxfordreference.comUseful appendices include SI units, units of alcohol, abbreviations and symbols used in medical notes and records, and inherited medical conditionsNew to this Edition:Revised and fully updated content to reflect the latest advances in medical knowledge and practiceMore than 450 new entries expanding the coverage of public health medicine and general practice, drugs and pharmacology, endocrinology (particularly diabetology), cardiology, and other key topicsNew appendices, including units of alcohol and the calculation of alcohol by volume, and a table of inherited medical conditio

Over 2,000 A-Z entries, covering the latest terms and concepts.Provides definitions for basic terms such as migrant and diaspora, as well as more complex concepts such as transnationalism and representation.Also includes a bibliography and entry-level web links which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website.Contains appendices, including an essential list of journals that cover human geography and related fields, and a number of useful ma

This revised and updated edition of the popular dictionary covers all aspects of chemistry, from physical chemistry to biochemistry, with wide coverage in areas such as nuclear magnetic resonance, polymer chemistry, nanotechnology and graphene, andabsolute configuration. This edition includes new and updated diagrams and biographical entries on key figures, featured entries on major topics such as polymers and crystal defects, and a chronology charting the main discoveries in atomic theory,biochemistry, explosives, and plastics.

Second EditionBas Aarts, Sylvia Chalker, and Edmund WeinerOxford Quick ReferenceOver 1,600 clearly written and accessible A-Z entries, fully revised and updated, covering current grammatical terminologyGives guidance on terminology that is used in different ways in competing frameworksEntries make frequent use of illustrative example sentencesProvides citations from important scholarly texts in the field where appropriateEntries on related fields of study, such as corpus linguistics, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, and theoretical frameworksFully refreshed list of cited works, bringing the title up to speed with the current literatureA descriptive, but not prescriptive, grammar aidNew to this Edition:Over 150 new entries covering more recent terminology, e.g. catenative-auxiliary analysis, control, determiner phrase, futurate, monostratal, and neoclassical compoundShort entries on the most important English grammars published since the start of the 20th centuryHundreds of new cross-references increasing the dictionary's accessibilityFully revised and updated list of references and a short web link appendix added

Completely revised and up-to-date content, with new entries on topical areas such as climate change, social media, terrorism, and intersectionalityMore than 2,500 clear, concise, and authoritative entriesCovers all aspects of sociology, from abolitionism to zeitgeist and includes in-depth entries on key topics including the sociology of migration, politics, and religionIncludes terms taken from a wide range of related fields, such as psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political scienceRecommended entry-level web links, accessed and updated via the Dictionary of Sociology companion web pageNew to this Edition:All entries thoroughly reviewed to ensure they are concise, focused, and up to dateNew entries on global and multi-cultural topics such as climate change, social media, terrorism, and intersectionality

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A fully updated edition of the best-selling Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. This paperback edition is ideal for advanced (C1-C2) learners of English and contains up-to-date vocabulary, including words from the areas of technology, media,language, society, and lifestyle, plus important words for academic study. With over 140,000 words, phrases, meanings, and examples, hundreds of pictures and illustrations, clear definitions and a new 'Focus on Writing' section, the dictionary is perfectas a reference tool and as a study companion. Informed by the Cambridge International Corpus and correlated to English Vocabulary Profile, it is also ideal for exam preparation. The CD-ROM contains the complete dictionary and recordings in British andAmerican English.

Over 9,500 clear and concise entries, including bone morphogenetic protein, Convention on Biological Diversity, genome editing, Ice Cube Experiment, multi-core processor, PhyloCode, quarkonium, and World Wide TelescopeMore than 250 entries illustrated with straightforward, labelled diagramsCovers biology (including human biology), chemistry, physics, the earth sciences, computer science, and astronomyContains short biographies of leading scientists from around the worldFull page illustrated features on subjects such as the solar system and genetically modified organismsUseful appendices for easy reference include SI units and unit conversion, fundamental constants, the solar system, geological time scale, the periodic table, and up-to-date phylogenetic trees for plant and animal evolutionMini-chronologies support key entriesRecommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Science companion websiteNew to this Edition:Revised and fully updated content, including over 250 new entriesExpanded coverage of many areas, including nanotechnology, quantum physics, molecular biology, genomics, and the science of climate changeNew entries include bone morphogenetic protein, Convention on Biological Diversity, genome editing, Ice Cube Experiment, multi-core processor, PhyloCode, quarkonium, and World Wide Telescope