The
Cambridge Concise Guide to Literature in English
Synopsis
Derived from the parent
Guide to Literature in English, this volume offers in concise form
over 4000 entries on literature in English from cultures throughout the
world. Writers and major works from the UK and the USA are represented,
as are those from Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Africa. The
coverage is broad, from the classics of English literature, to the best
of modern writing; living writers mingle with those of the past. Additionally,
the Guide has a wealth of entries on literary movements, groups or schools
in literature and criticism, literary magazines, genres and sub-genres,
critical concepts and rhetorical terms. While users of a concise volume
want a handy and cheap source of reference, they nevertheless have wide-ranging
needs. The Concise Guide has been designed to meet those requirements
by abbreviating the entries as crisply as possible.
The
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
Synopsis
Substantially enlarged and updated for this
edition, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is a guide
to the vast and rich heritage of literature written in English. It covers
all the major novelists, poets and dramatists - from Shakespeare, Milton,
Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Conrad - to contemporary writers from all
over the English-speaking world - Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Les Murray,
Wole Soyinka and Janet Frame. Over 100 specialist contributors provide
detailed biographical and critical articles not only on writers and their
works, but also on the critics, philosophers, historians and biographers
who need to be consulted in a literary context. Substantial coverage is
also given to such literary genres as popular fiction, science fiction,
detective novels and children's classics. Literary concepts such as structuralism,
tragedy and irony are described, and full explanations are provided for
movements from neo-classicism and Romanticism to modernism and post-modernism.
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Chambers
Dictionary of Science and Technology
Synopsis
Covering a diverse range of subjects including
astronomy, behaviour, civil engineering, mineral extraction, textiles and
zoology, this updated dictionary has over 50,000 entries, and 100 new panel
entries to present topics in more detail.
The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Synopsis
Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary
of Music (see below), this is the most authoritative and up-to-date
dictionary of music available in paperback. Fully revised and updated for
this new edition, it is a rich mine of information for lovers of music
of all periods and styles. Over 10,000 entries on musical terms, works,
composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras * Comprehensive
work-lists for major composers * Generous coverage of living composers
and performers * Important ballets and operas * Musical instruments and
their history This book is intended for music lovers, concert goers, amateur
musicians, and students from the 6th Form upwards.
Dictionary
of the Internet and CD-ROM Bundle
Synopsis
This dictionary of the Internet provides
4,000 terms on the Web, software technology, jargon, e-commerce, security
and the technical and organizational infrastructure of the Internet. By
concentrating on the Internet and its structure, the reference work does
not cover basic computing terms. A free CD-ROM included with the book contains
the full dictionary entries in a browsable format with hyperlinks between
entries. There are also links to relevant websites. The dictionary is supported
by a separate website where updates for downloading are posted. Sample
entries from the text are also be displayed.
Dictionary
of Printing and Publishing
Synopsis
This updated edition covers all aspects of
printing and publishing. It includes terms from the various stages of book,
magazine and newspaper production including editing, design, printing and
distribution. Topics include printing machines, paper, ink, binding, typesetting,
typefaces, DTP, commercial publishing and bookselling, editing, proofreading,
layout, commissioning, and contracts and rights. It also includes coverage
of electronic publishing and publishing on the internet, incorporating
the programming languages, file formats, and standards used in electronic
publishing.
A
Dictionary of Writers and Their Works
Synopsis
A quick-reference guide to authors and their
works. The focus is on the general canon of British literature from the
15th century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction,
such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as the inclusion of
major American, Commonwealth, and other foreign writers. The dictionary
is in three sections: Section I contains an A-Z listing of authors, with
nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles
arranged chronologically by date of publication. Section II has an A-Z
listing of titles included in Section I, with date of publication and author's
name. Section III consists of an index of selected literary characters,
focusing on major works from Sections I and II. Users should be able to
identify authors from a known title; verify or establish publication date
of a particular work; review the main output of a particular author at
a glance; verify/establish birth/death dates of an author; and locate well-known
literary characters in the works in which they appear.
A
Dictionary of Zoology
Synopsis
This dictionary is a comprehensive reference
work on all aspects of the study of animals. Fully revised for this edition,
with over 5000 entries, it provides wide coverage of topics including animal
behaviour, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, evolution, and Earth
history. There is taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates,
fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The text has been revised
to incorporate the discovery of 'extremophiles' - organisms living in environments
formerly considered impossibly hostile - and the toxonomic reclassification
that this has entailed.
The
Oxford Companion to English Literature
Synopsis
Based on the text of Margaret Drabble's 1995
edition, this edition has been completely reworked and expanded. There
are nearly 600 entirely new entries to reflect the figures and issues of
English literature in the 21st century and the existing entries have been
revised and updated to incorporate ongoing scholarship. But this edition
remains faithful to Sir Paul Harvey's original vision of a work placing
English literature from the Classical world, Europe, Latin America, and
beyond. In addition to the coverage of writers, works, literary theory,
allusions and characters, there are 16 featured essay-style entries on
key topics including black British literature, fantasy fiction, and modernism.
Oxford
Companion to Western Art
Synopsis
Essentially a replacement for Harold Osborne's
Oxford Companion to Art (1970), this work has over 2,500 entries,
alphabetically arranged. Almost half of them cover artists, from classical
times to the 20th century. Other entries discuss art styles and movements,
art forms (such as battle painting, caricature, or stained glass), specialist
terms, and materials and techniques in all media. There is a strong emphasis
on location as a focus for art; not only are there regional and cultural
surveys, but also entries on specific places of importance such as Urbino
or Nancy. In addition, entries on museums and galleries are arranged under
the their city headword so that the reader can easily survey the major
sites within a particular locality, such as New York, Boston, or Madrid.
Patronage is an important new area of interest. Here, rather than focusing
on a limited number of individual patrons, this work has entries on towns
and cities as centres of patronage and collecting - such as Nuremberg,
Dresden, or Prague.
The
Oxford Dictionary of Music
Synopsis
This revised and expanded edition encompasses
musical subjects of all kinds: composers; performers in all fields; orchestras;
titles and descriptions of individual works, operas, and ballets; musical
forms and terms; instruments; institutions; and writers and scholars.