Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th and 17th  Centuries cannot replace reading and enjoying the works of the writers and artists whose entries follow, but it will help general readers and student researchers become more informed and appreciative of the works discussed herein.We hope that this encyclopedia creates a critical and historical context for one of the world’s greatest ages of the arts and sciences.

Spanning more than 4,000 years, from the Early Bronze Age to 325 B.C.E., this Encyclopedia provides an overview of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran/Persia, the Arabian Peninsula and more. This 4-vol. set is fully illustrated, and including sidebars, marginal definitions and maps, this set provides an accurate, comprehensive and accessible research reference for students, and is modeled Ancient Greece and Rome and The Middle Ages.

This dictionary presents a complete listing of the collocations in the Brown Corpus, which is the standard American corpus containing one million words of text from many different genres dating from 1961. Collocations, as defined by the author, are recurring sequences of grammatically well-formed items. They make up the building blocks of the native speaker's mental lexicon and hence are an essential element of linguistic competence. Examples of collocations are: at the outset, could be expected to, not significantly different from, peaceful coexistence, powdered coffee, and with great difficulty. The dictionary lists some 85,000 collocational types; for each collocation there are statistics showing its frequency, distribution, and degree of prominence. It will be an invaluable reference source for researchers in linguistics, English-language teaching, lexicography, stylistics, and automatic language analysis.

This dictionary of collocations was compiled by an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teacher in Saudi Arabia who teaches adult, native speakers of Arabic. The dictionary is practical in teaching English because it helps to focus on everyday events and situations. The dictionary works as follows: the teacher looks up a word, such as "talk"; next to the word is a list of words associated with that word, such as "peace, pep, pillow, shop, trash, heart-to-heart, man-to-man, and small"; the teacher explains the more interesting uses of the word. The teacher then asks for other possible uses and contexts for the word. The introduction makes many suggestions for the creative and productive use of this dictionary.

This volume is a comprehensive general reference work for students, scholars, and general readers on forms (e.g., Ballad, Folktale, Legend) and methods of inquiry and analysis (e.g., Fieldwork, Historic-Geographic Method, Linguistic Approach) relevant to the study of folklore.