The Americana

The Americana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 884
Release: 1923
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

The Americana

The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse Beach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 816
Release: 1912
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary
Author: J. A. Simpson
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1993
Genre: English language
ISBN: 0198600275

This is the third in a major series of volumes supplementing the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 3 contains 3,000 new words and meanings from around the English-speaking world, including the UK (Citizen's Charter), North America (affluential, Clintonomics), Australia (beardie), and the West Indies (zouk). A wide variety of subjects is covered, including the sciences (buckyball, nanotechnology, Tourette syndrome), finance (junk bond, negative equity), literary theory (metafiction), computing (freeware, core dump), and sport (basho, lowball).

Pliny on Art and Society

Pliny on Art and Society
Author: Jacob Isager
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135085803

Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager's is the first full treatment of this subject for over a hundred years.