Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Author: Susan Ratcliffe

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0199567077

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Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition includes over 9,000 of the most popular and widely-used quotations old and new, uniquely identified by searching the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, the Oxford English Corpus.

Systems of Ethics and Value Theory
Systems of Ethics and Value Theory

Author: William S. Sahakian, Ph.D

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1963-01-01

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1442234377

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In the extensive study, Systems of Ethics and Value Theory, author William S. Sahakian deconstructs these two complex philosophical systems for a scholarly audience. He covers topics from self-realizationism to free will to dignity with careful analysis and reasoning. His astute contributions to the fields of ethics and value theory provide excellent introductions and open up readers' minds to the complex philosophical concepts and arguments.

Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 1166

ISBN-13: 9781840223101

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This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.

The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations
The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Author: Robert Andrews

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 1291

ISBN-13: 0141965312

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The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations contains over 8,000 quotations from 1914 to the present. As much a companion to the modern age as it is an entertaining and useful reference tool, it takes the reader on a tour of the wit and wisdom of the great and the good, from Margot Asquith to Monica Lewinsky, from George V to Boutros Boutros-Galli and Jonathan Aitken to Frank Zappa.