Defining the World
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Henry Hitchings
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-17 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impell
Defining the World
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Henry Hitchings
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task t
Defining the Peace
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Jennifer E. Brooks
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-20 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia's veterans--black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union--all found that service in the war enhanced
Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Iris Borowy
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of ma
Days That Changed the World
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Hywel Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-12 - Publisher: Quercus

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The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a