Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary

Author: J. A. Simpson

Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0198600275

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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

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1135085803

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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.