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Brill's Encyclopedia of China Online presents latest research on China with a focus on the modern period from the mid-nineteenth century to the 21st century. Top scholars contribute content on the history, geography, society, economy, politics, science, and culture of China

Authoritative and reliable, this is the ideal reference guide for students of mathematics at school or at university. Many entries have been added for this new edition and the dictionary covers both pure and applied mathematics as well as statistics.

Written by a team of leading political scientists, this is an authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of politics. It provides coverage of political thinkers and concepts and discusses new topics such as Guantanamo Bay.

This reference covers all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day. Over 3600 entries describe the people and events that have shaped domestic, political, social and cultural life in Britain over the past two millennia.

Wide-ranging and authoritative, this third edition covers all aspects of economics, including economic theory as well as applied micro and macroeconomics. It is a useful dictionary for professional economists as well as students and teachers of economics, business and finance.

For anyone who enjoys food and would like a handy, non-technical guide to the terms they encounter on food labels, in advertising, or in the media, this dictionary contains over 6000 entries on food and nutrition.

Containing 6,400 fully revised and updated entries on all aspects of physical and human geography, this is a comprehensive dictionary which includes feature panels on key areas and recommended web links for many entries.

With almost 2800 entries on all aspects of Hinduism, this is an up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary covering all the major Hindu practices, texts, beliefs, religious sites, and teachers over a period spanning 3500 years. An invaluable first port of call for anyone seeking information about Indian religions and culture.

Written in a clear and jargon-free style, this dictionary is useful to anyone without a legal qualification who comes into contact with the law in the United Kingdom or any Commonwealth country where the legal system is founded on English law.

This updated dictionary of modern and contemporary art contains over 2,000 entries on a vast range of subjects, including movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, schools, and galleries. Fascinating, comprehensive, and authoritative, it is a useful A-Z guide for art students and teachers, artists, and art lovers.

Fully revised, with many new entries and biographies of key scientists, this book covers all the commonly encountered terms and concepts in physics, as well as key terms from maths astrophysics and physical chemistry.

This guide to psychology contains over 11,000 entries and provides clear and concise definitions of a wide range of terms and concepts in psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.

This dictionary of sociology provides over 2500 entries. It includes coverage of the major concepts from related disciplines and international coverage of terms, methods, and concepts, as well as biographical entries on major figures.

This is an authoritative and accessible guide to the books of the Bible, containing information about important places and personalities. It also aims to expound the Bible's themes customs and doctrines.

This comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of zoology covers all aspects of the study of animals. It is ideal for students and will be invaluable to amateur naturalists.

Searchable database which provides free public access to basic information on the most significant multilateral treaties from 1353 onwards, including amendments and protocols for the main treaty to the present, and some significant bilateral treaties signed between 1353 and 1815.

This work gives a history of the kings and queens of Britain ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. The entries are ordered in sections by regions and then by royal lines.

This dictionary provides writers and editors from all fields of science with a clear and concise style guide for preparing scientific material for publication. It contains A-Z entries of preferred spellings, punctuation, abbreviations, symbols biological nomenclature, tables, prefixes and suffixes, and much more.

This dictionary contains over 2,500 entries covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day. It includes biographical entries, styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries.

Get stuck into this authoritative and entertaining dictionary of English idioms. Packed with over 6,000 entries from the whole of the English-speaking world, including figurative expressions similes, sayings, and proverbs, it really is the bee's knees. Ideal for students, learners, or anyone interested in the English language.

Complete with a keyword index and expanded information on authors and particular quotations, this definitive guide to quotations in English means that you will always know who said what, where, and when.

This is an accessible, lively A-Z of over 3000 words and their origins, drawn from Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research and language monitoring. Ideal for language lovers and students alike, it relates the fascinating stories behind many of our most curious words and expressions.

Here are the landmark decisions that have shaped American life, described by some of America's most eminent legal scholars. The new edition contains more than 450 entries on major cases, including 53 new entries on the latest landmark rulings. This outstanding guide serves as an excellent introduction to the work of the Court from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

This quick research guide to plastic surgery contains succinct bullet pointed entries and cross-referencing to research related topics. The book is particularly relevant to trainees in plastic surgery as a working reference book and as a resource for use during exam preparation.

This database provides wait times for arriving flights at the busiest international airports in the United States. The reports include the number of passengers processed on flights arriving and how long it took for passengers to clear Passport Control

This dictionary covers the essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language, focusing especially on Europe, the Old World, and the Americas.

Fully revised and updated for the sixth edition, this market-leading dictionary is the perfect guide for anyone studying biology at school or university. With 5,500 entries, it provides comprehensive coverage of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry.

The sixth edition of this established and authoritative dictionary is expanded to embrace recent developments. It provides comprehensive coverage of computer applications in industry, the office, science, education, and the home.

This dictionary includes country entries for every country in the world as well as coverage of great battles, major world events, and key historical figures. It is essential reading for all with an nterest in history and current affairs.

Education is of relevance to everyone, but it involves specialized terminology which may be unfamiliar or opaque. This UK-focused dictionary - with 1,250 authoritative entries - provides clear and accessible definitions of the terms organizations, qualifications, statutes, and much more, involved in education today.

This guide covers every aspect of the financial world, from international to personal finance, including banking, insurance stocks & shares, takeovers & mergers, commodities, international trade, and government finance.

This is an accessible source of definitions of words, terms, and phrases that are encountered in the fields of human resource management, personnel, and industrial relations.

This dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions in an authoritative and accessible way. A must-have for all nurses students of nursing, medical practitioners and professionals including midwives and health visitors.

A reference work containing over 2500 A-Z entries on operatic characters. Includes synopses for over 200 operas and operettas as well as feature articles written by well-known personalities from the world of opera, including Placido Domingo and Dame Janet Baker.

Written by authorities in the field, this dictionary provides concise, jargon-free definitions of all the terms likely to be encountered by students of statistics. Anyone who comes into contact with statistical terms will find this dictionary useful.

This dictionary of weather, forecasting, and climate terms has illustrative examples of specific events and extremes. Key terms and biographical information on important people in the development of meteorology are also included.

I/B/E/S Guidance includes company-issued guidance data for thousands of North American companies and global companies. First Call, the previous Thomson Reuters product which contained management guidance data was discontinued in 2012.

Covering over 1500 singers from the origins of opera to the present day, this book is a comprehensive resource for opera lovers. It features more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers.

For any reader needing a clear, concise explanation of a subject in law this title is the ideal reference work. Providing greater depth than legal dictionaries but always accessible to the non-expert, entries in this companion cover all areas of law and legal systems and are extensively cross-referenced for ease of navigation.

This text provides a comprehensive guide to Australian military history, written by the country's leading military historians. It includes entries on key soldiers, politicians and writers, as well as information on major campaigns, weapons and themes.

This companion includes over 350 entries, extensively cross-referenced, describing the modern view of cosmology including both theoretical ideas and the many strands of observational evidence.

In recent years, global change has become increasingly important in technological, ecological and political spheres. This companion examines the environmental events of recent times, and investigates long-term trends as well as broader issues of global change.

An authoritative reference for this highly popular genre, this book covers Broadway, Hollywood and television in one volume. With more than two thousand entries, this book offers a wealth of information on musicals, performers, composers, lyricists producers, choreographers, and much more.

Providing clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma, this is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. This edition includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism.

Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', 'Stone the Crows' is a lively and authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Providing over 3000 entries, including the most recent terms and concepts, 'The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy' includes biographies of some of the most famous and influential philosophers, as well as exploring key terms and concepts.

This unique and authoritative collection contains over 1,100 of the most widely-used proverbs in English with research drawing on the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. Lively and compelling, this book is filled with favourites - old and new - and with the fascinating history of each proverb through the ages.

This guide lists almost 1800 cities, towns, villages, districts and houses, where writers lived and worked, or were born educated, or buried, and interweaves details of each location with anecdote and quotation.