Compact Oxford Dictionary Thesaurus & Wordpower Guide
Increase your wordpower with three books in one. One... A dictionary with over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. Two... A thesaurus containing over 140,000 alternative and opposite words. Three... A...
Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question `What happened to these fifteen-year-old boys, and how did...
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a new,...
This volume of powerful poetry follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements including the young Wilde`s conflicting attitudes to Greece and Rome, pagan...
Concise Oxford English Dictionary. 10-th edition
This reissue of the revised edition of the "Concise Oxford English Dictionary" brings the tenth edition completely up to date by the addition of hundreds of new words and meanings taken from Oxford`s data collection...
This best-selling dictionary has sold over 250,000 copies in previous editions. Fully revised and up-to-date, it is indispensable both as a home medical guide and as an aid for those working in the medical and allied...
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• Over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering technical and scientific vocabulary as well as English from around the world • Award-winning design and layout helps you find the information you are looking...
"Crime and Punishment" is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and psychological, it is...
A book of practical advice and useful tips on how to design your CV and write successful job applications. This lively, accessible, and illustrated guide is divided into two sections. The first provides comprehensive...
La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas`s marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the stage version, in...
Only in her final novel, in 1876, did George Eliot turn to contemporary English and European life as material for the expression of her own idealism. Daniel Deronda is a psychologically incisive investigation, probing...
One of Dickens`s best-loved and most personal novels, David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens`s own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse. This edition, which has the...
Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, his last work remains to this day the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian...
Hundreds of years ago, camels went across the Sahara Desert with salt on their backs, and travelers told stories about the city of Timbuktu. People rode horses across the cold Gobi Desert, and the big saguaro cactus...
Devils (Besy), also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky`s five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of...
This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy`s creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in...
Who is a typo pirate? Are they related to fat clients? And what is shovelware? The rapid rise of the Internet has changed our language. This dictionary allows you to keep up with those changes by concentrating...
The third edition of this Dictionary of Business is a wide-ranging and informative guide to all areas of modern business. It features up-to-date coverage of over 6,500 terms from marketing to taxation and accounting,...
The most practical guide to all the most frequently needed words, meanings, and spellings. 1. Check spellings and meanings, with 65,000 entries and 75,000 definitions. 2. Get straight to the word you want, using the...
