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British English A to Zed

General readers and language lovers alike will have immediate access to an alphabetical listing of more than 5,500 "Briticisms" and their correlating "Americanisms" in this fully revised and updated volume. Featured in this new edition are several hundred new entries; lively discussions of British language, pronunciation, punctuation, style, usage, and culture; and special sections on units of measure, automotive terms, cricket terms, and more.

Featured in this new edition are several hundred new entries; lively discussions of British language, pronunciation, punctuation, style, usage, and culture; and special sections on units of measure, automotive terms, cricket terms, and more ...

Encyclopedia of American Business History

Presents an alphabetically-arranged reference to the history of business and industry in the United States. Includes selected primary source documents.

Wimbledon championship in 1877, the first professional tennis was played in
1926, when Suzanne Lenglen was paid $50,000 by a promoter to make a
professional exhibition tour of the United States. While professional tours and
tennis leagues existed for the next 40 years, the age of professional tennis truly
arrived in 1968, when the major tournaments such as Wimbledon and the U.S.
Open began to accept professional players. Similarly, golf had a long history as a
recreational ...

Reproductive Rights

Presents both supporting and opposing arguments involving reproductive rights in the United States, including access to contraceptives, abortion rights, and sex education.

Presents both supporting and opposing arguments involving reproductive rights in the United States, including access to contraceptives, abortion rights, and sex education.

Immigration Policy

Presents diverse viewpoints on immigration and on making English the official language of the United States.

Presents diverse viewpoints on immigration and on making English the official language of the United States.

White-Collar Crime

Discusses whether white collar crimes are appropriately characterized in the United States, whether penalties are harsh enough, and whether the criminal justice system is effective in controlling white collar crime.

Discusses whether white collar crimes are appropriately characterized in the United States, whether penalties are harsh enough, and whether the criminal justice system is effective in controlling white collar crime.

Encyclopedia of World Constitutions

Presents a guide to the constitutions of the world's countries, with overviews of histories, leading principles, fundamental rights, amendments and more.

Presents a guide to the constitutions of the world's countries, with overviews of histories, leading principles, fundamental rights, amendments and more.

Threats to Food Safety

Presents an overview of potential threats on food supplies, new techniques to insure food safety, a chronology of important food related events, and a complete annotated bibliography.

Presents an overview of potential threats on food supplies, new techniques to insure food safety, a chronology of important food related events, and a complete annotated bibliography.

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Things Fall Apart, set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe's masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe's work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This guide contains a selection of contemporary criticism of this novel.

any early modern writers, including Shakespeare, celebrated the state's growing
penetration of daily life.1 On the other hand, because the social imaginary
founded on the nation-state was still emergent in the period, early modern writers
, ...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth

A collection of literary criticism focusing on Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

ought to be the least sympathetic of Shakespeare's hero- villains. He is a
murderer of old men, women, and children and has a particular obsession with
overcoming time by murdering the future: hence his failed attempt to kill Fleance
and his ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Presents a collection of critical essays about William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet."

La traduzione di Amleto nella cultura europea, Marsilio, Venezia. Del Sapio
Garbero M., 2005, Il bene ritrovato. Le figlie di Shakespeare dal King Lear ai
romances, Belzoni, Roma. Derrida J., 1985a, “De Tours de Babel”, in J. F.
Graham (ed.) ...