Uncovers the origins of over 3,000 words and phrases
Over 190 new entries including bug, goldilocks, heterogenous, stonking, upholstery, and wicket
Expressions fro ... Read more
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A focus on applications in every chapter helps bridge the gap between the principles introduced and their relevance to the real world.
Frequent diagrams, clear illustrative cartoons and schematic ... Read more
A defence of the importance of poetry that studies one of the greatest poets of the English tradition: John Milton. The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance ... Read more
The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked ... Read more
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A flexible and cost-effective alternative to larger texts, Criminal Justice: The Essentials, Sixth Edition, covers all the fundamental issues faced by law enforcement, the courts, corrections, and juv ... Read more
Levinton's Marine Biology is highly acclaimed and regarded by many as the best, most authoritative text for the sophomore/junior/senior marine biology course. The text is characterized by its exceptio ... Read more
A. Robert Martin; David A. Brown; Mathew E. Diamond; Antonino Cattaneo; Francisco F. De-Miguel; John Nicholls
Pub date
Jul 2021
From Neuron to Brain, Sixth Edition, provides a readable, up-to-date book for use in undergraduate, graduate, and medical school courses in neuroscience. As in previous editions, the emphasis is on ex ... Read more
Answers questions people really have about English, like "Why are there so many ways to say -gh?" and "Why is there an 'r' in Mrs.?"
Explores the many quirks of English and how they are connected ... Read more
The first study to document a history of numerous visible hands taming incipient capitalism, a story that Adam Smith and his admirers set aside
Reveals the remarkable extent to which th ... Read more
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This is volume II of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton. It is an English translation of Jacobu ... Read more
