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From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day.
Provides coverage of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, as well as key terms from medicine and palaeontology.
This dictionary provides a quick and authoritative point of reference for chemical engineering, covering areas such as materials, energy balances, reactions, and separations. It also includes relevant terms from the areas of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biology.
This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's wa…
The 'Grosetto workshop' was an event which broke new ground. It brought together for the first time an international and interdisciplinary group of researchers concerned with computational lexicography. These papers, selected from the workshop, have provided a baseline and a ref…
Appendices include: Classification of organisms. -- Geological time scales. -- Conversion tables and other measurements.
Concise definitions of approximately 12,000 terms from biology and related fields, such as anatomy, embryology and ecology. Intended for students at all levels. Includes commonly used, less used specialized, and new terms.
Concise definitions of approximately 12,000 terms from biology and related fields, such as anatomy, embryology and ecology. Intended for students at all levels. Includes commonly used, less used specialized, and new terms.
"The thirteenth edition of this dictionary has been updated in response to changes in the core life-sciences fields, and now includes new terms from bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics. It has over 22,000 entries; clear definitions and additional explanations; covers a wide…
"The thirteenth edition of this dictionary has been updated in response to changes in the core life-sciences fields, and now includes new terms from bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics. It has over 22,000 entries; clear definitions and additional explanations; covers a wide…
"From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester fir…
