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IN SEARCH OF A MASTERPIECE
An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

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Should you find yourself in Hull, Cork or Dundee, what paintings should you go and look at? Many masterpieces are waiting for you around the British Isles, sometimes neglected, in our galleries and mu... Learn More
THE DICTIONARY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH PHILOSOPHERS

Edited by ANDREW PYLE

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This two-volume dictionary of seventeenth-century British philosophers construes ‘philosophy’ as wide in scope, including not just logic, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology, but those many aspec... Learn More
AN ATLAS OF ENGLISH DIALECTS

CLIVE UPTON and J D A WIDDOWSON

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This reference guide shows the reader from where certain English words, sounds and phrases originate and why usage varies from region to region. It includes: ninety maps showing the regions in which p... Learn More
DOW’S DICTIONARY OF RAILWAY QUOTATIONS

Edited by ANDREW DOW

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This is a compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. It includes more than 3,400 entries drawn from the work of more than 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of B... Learn More
PORTRAIT OF PEMBROKESHIRE

DILLWYN MILES

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This engaging and colourful portrait celebrates the ancient county of Pembrokeshire. Its history is long and romantic; its landscape breath-taking and largely free from modern corruption; its abundant... Learn More
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ARCHAEOLOGY

TIMOTHY DARVILL

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This is the most wide-ranging, comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available. More than 4,000 entries cover the terms encountered in academic and popular archaeological literature, ... Learn More
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Edited by ANDRÉ VAUCHEZ
With BARRIE DOBSON and MICHAEL LAPIDGE

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This reference work contains more than 3,000 articles, ranging from a few sentences to 10,000 word essays, providing information on all aspects of the Middle Ages, from the fifth century to the fiftee... Learn More
THE ATLAS OF THE REAL WORLD
Mapping the Way We Live

DANIEL DORLING and MARK NEWMAN

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This collection of more than 300 digitally modified maps - known as cartograms - depicts the areas and countries of the world not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a vast ... Learn More
ORIGINS
A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

ERIC PARTRIDGE

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This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connections between words derived by a variety of routes from o... Learn More
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Edited by ADAM KUPER and JESSICA KUPER

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This new edition of an already classic reference work is a compendium of the entire range of the social sciences. Its more than 500 entries (over half are new or substantially revised) encompass anthr... Learn More

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IN SEARCH OF A MASTERPIECE An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

THE DICTIONARY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH PHILOSOPHERS

Edited by ANDREW PYLE

AN ATLAS OF ENGLISH DIALECTS

CLIVE UPTON and J D A WIDDOWSON

DOW’S DICTIONARY OF RAILWAY QUOTATIONS

Edited by ANDREW DOW

PORTRAIT OF PEMBROKESHIRE

DILLWYN MILES

THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ARCHAEOLOGY

TIMOTHY DARVILL

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Edited by ANDRÉ VAUCHEZWith BARRIE DOBSON and MICHAEL LAPIDGE

THE ATLAS OF THE REAL WORLD Mapping the Way We Live

DANIEL DORLING and MARK NEWMAN

ORIGINS A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

ERIC PARTRIDGE

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Edited by ADAM KUPER and JESSICA KUPER

IN SEARCH OF A MASTERPIECE
An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland

Edited by ANDRÉ VAUCHEZ
With BARRIE DOBSON and MICHAEL LAPIDGE

THE ATLAS OF THE REAL WORLD
Mapping the Way We Live

ORIGINS
A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English