Completely updated to include all the latest vocabulary this fourth edition of the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary contains coverage of over 175 000 words & phrases & 240 000 translations. It

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This is a new edition of the Concise Oxford Thesaurus with updated & enhanced text new choices of synonyms & a new design. The Concise Oxford Thesaurus is a comprehensive reference text for the bookshelf at home or in the office. Its usefulness means that it wont stay on the shelf however. The thesaurus is the perfect tool to use to improve your writing style whether you are composing a letter essay or report or writing creatively. It is also great for finding the word on the tip of your tongue or for word games. The new centre section in this Concise Oxford Thesaurus contains lists of nouns from illnesses to insects & vegetables to veins to give you the edge in solving crosswords & word puzzles as well as being a useful encyclopedic reference. The Concise Oxford Thesaurus also contains Word Links to help you find related words. So for example look up the word night & you will find nocturnal; look up light & you will find optics. Hundreds more have been added new to this edition helping you find the word you need every time. The thesaurus

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Completely updated to include all the latest vocabulary this fourth edition of the Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary contains coverage of over 175 000 words & phrases & 270 000 translations. It

Includes:: a comphrensive correspondence guide with sample letters emails & CVs plus fun & informative cultural notes on life & living in the French-speaking world. This new edition also features information on the French spelling reform plus new sections on regional French false friends & Franglais as well as an entirely new internet section helping with everyday online activities from booking tickets to banking online. The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary is easy to use with a clear layout featuring a two-colour text design & printed thumb tabs for quick reference. This dictionary

Includes:: 12 months access* to Oxfords premium French / English online dictionary service Oxford Language Dictionaries Online so you can find accurate translations & extra resources wherever you are. The site is regularly updated with the latest new words & meanings from Oxfords modern languages research programme the Oxford Languages Tracker. You can also hear audio pronunciations & improve your language skills with online cultural notes guides to writing & much more. * Available in selected markets (UK Europe Australia Canada & South Africa). Terms & conditions apply; please see www.oxforddictionaries.com/access for information.



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Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne & the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral & social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council a Member of Parliament a prisoner in the Tower of London twice Secretary to the Admiralty & President of the Royal Society Pepys was in a unique position to observe & record in detail a fascinating ten-year period of English history which included not only the Restoration but the Great Plague of 1665 & the Fire of London the following year. However it was not only the affairs of State which took up the great diarists interest for he was a regular attendant at the Kings Theatre was a hearty eater & drinker & delighted in recording his fondness for women especially his own & his friends young servant girls. ...

Find out all about our world today with this 5th edition of this reference atlas. From the defining boundaries of the Balkan states to the icy terrain of Antarctica over 400 maps created with the latest digital mapping techniques & satellite data are combined to bring you Earth in more detail than ever before. Terrain models reveal physical features while informative text photographs & diagrams provide a superb overview of the physical political economic & demographic geography of the world. Detailed fact files on all 193 nations including each regions land use industrial activities & population distribution. Plus a 75 000 index-gazetteer makes this an essential desktop reference for business home or school use. Visit our associated website to find out more about the worlds 193 countries from maps & historical information to up-to-date statistics. ...

This fully revised edition of The Concorde Story" published to coincide with the anniversary of the first landing at Heathrow is a complete history of Concorde. When commercial air services were launched in 1976 Concorde was hailed as one of the wonders of the technological world. Lavishly illustrated throughout this new edition documents the early difficulties encountered on the way to commercial success as well as examining the tragic event at Gonesse in 2000. With a new section on the after-story of the aeroplane & a look at what the future holds for supersonic aircraft this is the definitive book for all Concorde fans." ...

When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot & killed Norman Church the ' Dollmaker' the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers. But four years later Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse Bosch has just received a note eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with giving him a location where a body can be found. Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats & destroy Bosch's career in the process? ...

Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare from sieges to street-fighting from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed although strategists have advised against it across the millennia armies & generals have been forced nonetheless to attack & defend cities & victory has required that they do it well. In Concrete Hell Louis Di Marco has provided a masterful study of the brutal realities of urban warfare of what it means to seize & hold a city literally block by block. Such a study could not be more timely. We live in an increasingly urbanizing world a military unprepared for urban operations is unprepared for tomorrow. Di Marco masterfully studies the successes & failures of past battles in order to provide lessons for todays tacticians. ...

Written when Engels was only twenty-four & inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian Engl&. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns & for miners & agricultural workers
- depicting overcrowded housing abject poverty child labour sexual exploitation dirt & drunkenness
- in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. His fascinating later preface written for the first English edition of 1892 & included here brought the story up to date in the light of forty years further refelection. A masterpiece of committed reporting & an impassioned call to arms this is one of the great pioneering works of social history.

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With university behind her Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons & she leaves her family home in 1920s Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for living beyond that of simply wife & mother. This desire leads her to flirt with risk passion & unorthodox friendships & carries her to Tunisia on a journey of self-questioning & intellectual reawakening. Conditions of Faith is both a provocative romance & an elegant meditation on a timeless dilemma. Impetuous yet entirely sympathetic Emily Stanton like Henry James Isabel Archer is in search of a reason for living in a society where motherhood is deemed reason enough. This mesmerising & thought-provoking story of dreams obsessions & destiny will hold you in thrall. ...