The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works 2nd Edition

Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," Shakespeare: The Complete Works is the ultimate anthology of the Bard's work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published. Now, almost two decades after the original volume, the publisher is proud to announce a thoroughly updated second edition, including for the first time the texts of The Reign of Edward III and Sir Thomas More, recognizing these two plays officially as authentic works by Shakespeare. This beautiful collection is the product of years of full-time research ...

Studies in the History of the English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change (Topics in English Lingui

Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians of the English language fostered by the series of conferences on studying the history of the English language (SHEL), begun in 2000 at UCLA. It follows in the footsteps of three high-profile SHEL-based collections of peer-reviewed research papers and point-counterpoint commentaries

The Second Book of General Ignorance: A Quite Interesting Book

Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, the brains behind QI, here present a wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating and mind-bending facts, taking on the popular General Ignorance round from BBC1's top rated quiz and the first book in the bestselling series.

Grave Pawns: Civilizations Animal Victims

This book peers into the depths of human behavior in order to answer a festering question of good and evil, truth and illusion: Why does humankind have such a fervor for victimizing animals?--victimizing them in slaughterhouses, in laboratories, on land and sea, for the satisfaction of appetites both holy and unholy? What we find once we gaze deeply enough, and earnestly enough, is something that Carl Jung called the shadow--a hidden crucible of behavior in which the angels and demons of our nature merge. Grave Pawns is a tour de force of interdisciplinary thinking, combining a wide variety of subject areas into a compelling theory of violence against animals.

Rambling Through Science and Technology

Introducing core ideas in Science and Technology. Simple presentations on a variety of topics, from the beginnings of science to the wild ideas (such as the Big Bang) of astronomy today. In this adventure we touch on the history of science and the heroes of science, the fantastic invention of the heat engine, how to tell which is the most efficient of mechanical devices, the recent creation of the theory of statistics and of games (so important in resolving conflicts), plus various other topics including Einstein and Carnot and that mysterious non-thing called entropy.