Author: Susan Ratcliffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
From Ambition to Youth, Health and Fitness to Technology, this little dictionary is packed full of more than 4,000 quotations on over 250 subjects. Arranged by theme and with an author index, this new edition contains simply the best quotations from three millennia. Fascinating andentertaining, it is guaranteed to amuse and delight.On Imagination'I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.'Terry PratchettOn the Twentieth Century'The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.'Bill Clinton
The Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Susan Ratcliffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
From Ambition to Youth, Health and Fitness to Technology, this little dictionary is packed full of more than 4,000 quotations on over 250 subjects. Arranged by theme and with an author index, this new edition contains simply the best quotations from three millennia. Fascinating andentertaining, it is guaranteed to amuse and delight.On Imagination'I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.'Terry PratchettOn the Twentieth Century'The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.'Bill Clinton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
From Ambition to Youth, Health and Fitness to Technology, this little dictionary is packed full of more than 4,000 quotations on over 250 subjects. Arranged by theme and with an author index, this new edition contains simply the best quotations from three millennia. Fascinating andentertaining, it is guaranteed to amuse and delight.On Imagination'I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.'Terry PratchettOn the Twentieth Century'The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.'Bill Clinton
The New Yale Book of Quotations
Author: Fred R. Shapiro
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300262787
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition) Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300262787
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book —named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal “Shapiro does original research, earning [this] volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”—William Safire, New York Times Magazine (on the original edition) “A quotations book with footnotes that are as fascinating to read as the quotes themselves.”—Arthur Spiegelman, Washington Post Book World (on the original edition) Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects of human activity. Contemporaries added to this edition include Beyoncé, Sandra Cisneros, James Comey, Drake, Louise Glück, LeBron James, Brett Kavanaugh, Lady Gaga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and David Foster Wallace. The volume also reflects path-breaking recent research resulting in the updating of quotations from the first edition with more accurate wording or attribution. It has also incorporated noncontemporary quotations that have become relevant to the present day. In addition, The New Yale Book of Quotations reveals the striking fact that women originated many familiar quotations, yet their roles have been forgotten and their verbal inventions have often been credited to prominent men instead. This book’s quotations, annotations, extensive cross-references, and large keyword index will satisfy both the reader who seeks specific information and the curious browser who appreciates an amble through entertaining pages.
Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims, and Mottos, Classical and Mediaeval
Author: Henry Thomas Riley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : la
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : la
Pages : 576
Book Description
Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195384202
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195384202
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.
A Dictionary of Law
Author: Jonathan Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199664927
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199664927
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
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.
Encyclopedia of Supreme Court Quotations
Author: Christopher A. Anzalone
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765618252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This is a collection of 1500 quotes from more than 1000 Supreme Court decisions. These excerpts, dating from the beginning of the Republic, are arranged to include the legislative, judicial, and executive branches; states' rights; due process; free speech; equal rights; and freedom of religion.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765618252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This is a collection of 1500 quotes from more than 1000 Supreme Court decisions. These excerpts, dating from the beginning of the Republic, are arranged to include the legislative, judicial, and executive branches; states' rights; due process; free speech; equal rights; and freedom of religion.
A Dictionary of Law
Author: Elizabeth A. Martin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191047694
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This best-selling dictionary is an authoritative and comprehensive source of jargon-free legal information. It contains over 4,200 entries that clearly define the major terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the English legal system. This is a reissue with new covers and essential updates to account for recent changes. Highlighted feature entries discuss key topics in detail, for example adoption law, the appeals system, statement of terms of employment, and terrorism acts, and there is a useful Writing and Citation Guide that specifically addresses problems and established conventions for writing legal essays and reports. Now providing more information than ever before, this edition features recommended web links for many entries, which are accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Law companion website. Described by leading university lecturers as 'the best law dictionary' and 'excellent for non-law students as well as law undergraduates', this classic dictionary is an invaluable source of legal reference for professionals, students, and anyone else needing succinct clarification of legal terms. Focusing primarily on English law, it also provides a one-stop source of information for any of the many countries that base their legal system on English law.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191047694
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This best-selling dictionary is an authoritative and comprehensive source of jargon-free legal information. It contains over 4,200 entries that clearly define the major terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the English legal system. This is a reissue with new covers and essential updates to account for recent changes. Highlighted feature entries discuss key topics in detail, for example adoption law, the appeals system, statement of terms of employment, and terrorism acts, and there is a useful Writing and Citation Guide that specifically addresses problems and established conventions for writing legal essays and reports. Now providing more information than ever before, this edition features recommended web links for many entries, which are accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Law companion website. Described by leading university lecturers as 'the best law dictionary' and 'excellent for non-law students as well as law undergraduates', this classic dictionary is an invaluable source of legal reference for professionals, students, and anyone else needing succinct clarification of legal terms. Focusing primarily on English law, it also provides a one-stop source of information for any of the many countries that base their legal system on English law.
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Diplomat's Dictionary
Author: Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788125664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This dictionary grew out of the experiences, readings, & reflections of a career diplomat well versed in the arts of persuasion, diplomacy, & discretion, & tested during times of crisis. An invaluable storehouse for those called upon to serve as mediator, negotiator, governmental officers or business leaders. During his many years of foreign service, the author collected many fragments of classic wisdom, cautionary advice, urbane observations, & witty insights on the art of diplomacy from numerous cultures & eras, often translating them from the original languages himself. Extensive bibliography. Index.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788125664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This dictionary grew out of the experiences, readings, & reflections of a career diplomat well versed in the arts of persuasion, diplomacy, & discretion, & tested during times of crisis. An invaluable storehouse for those called upon to serve as mediator, negotiator, governmental officers or business leaders. During his many years of foreign service, the author collected many fragments of classic wisdom, cautionary advice, urbane observations, & witty insights on the art of diplomacy from numerous cultures & eras, often translating them from the original languages himself. Extensive bibliography. Index.
A Dictionary of Cinema Quotations from Filmmakers and Critics
Author: Stephen M. Ringler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The cinema isn't a slice of life, it's a slice of cake--Alfred Hitchcock. If you make a popular movie, you start to think where have I failed?--Woody Allen. A film is the world in an hour and a half--Jean-Luc Godard. I think you have to be slightly psychopathic to make movies--David Cronenberg. This compendium contains over 3,400 quotations from filmmakers and critics discussing their craft. About 1,850 film people are included--Bunuel, Capra, Chaplin, Disney, Fellini, Fitzgerald, Griffith, Kael, Kurasawa, Pathe, Sarris, Schwarzenegger, Spielberg, Waters and Welles among them. The quotes are arranged under such topics as acting, audience, budget, directing, locations, reviews, screenwriting and special effects. Indexing by filmmaker (or critic), film titles and narrow subjects provides a rich array of points of access for both film fans and scholars.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The cinema isn't a slice of life, it's a slice of cake--Alfred Hitchcock. If you make a popular movie, you start to think where have I failed?--Woody Allen. A film is the world in an hour and a half--Jean-Luc Godard. I think you have to be slightly psychopathic to make movies--David Cronenberg. This compendium contains over 3,400 quotations from filmmakers and critics discussing their craft. About 1,850 film people are included--Bunuel, Capra, Chaplin, Disney, Fellini, Fitzgerald, Griffith, Kael, Kurasawa, Pathe, Sarris, Schwarzenegger, Spielberg, Waters and Welles among them. The quotes are arranged under such topics as acting, audience, budget, directing, locations, reviews, screenwriting and special effects. Indexing by filmmaker (or critic), film titles and narrow subjects provides a rich array of points of access for both film fans and scholars.