Now, with over 10,000 entries, this edition features the latest in expletives, sexual obscenities and lavatorial euphemisms.

    Combining the expertise of Oxford University Press with DK's genius in illustrated home reference, this attractive, easy-to-use dictionary is sure to appeal to the entire family. Oxford University Press has published dictionaries for more than 150 years and is today recognized as the world's leading authority on the authentication, definition, and usage of the English language. Oxford's World Reading Program tracks the growth of the English language worldwide, and is the most comprehensive survey of its kind, collecting on average more than 18,000 new words and phrases each month.

    A Teacher's Book contains teaching tips, lesson plans, and vocabulary practice activities. The accompanying Focused Listening Cassette provides hours of listening practice, using the vocabulary in interesting and stimulating ways.

    Edited by Edward Craig and assisted by thirty specialist subject editors, the REP consists of ten volumes of the world's most eminent philosophers writing for the needs of students and teachers of philosophy internationally. The REP is a project on an unparalleled scale:Over 2000 entries ranging from 500 to 15,000 words in length - thematic, biographical and national 10 volumes consisting of over 5 million words of text plus considerable bibliographic material A Chief Editor and thirty specialist Subject Editors from across the world Over 1200 authors from all over the world. The importance of the REP is not to be found just in the sheer size of the project but also in its breadth of subject matter. It covers:The core of most Anglo-American philosophy - the metaphysical, epistemological and logical questions The usual menu of ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy The philosophy of other cultures - from Chinese, Arabic and Jewish philosophy to the philosophy of Africa and Latin America The most impressive range of authors have been gathered together on this unique project: William Alston, Roderick Chisolm, Fred Dretske, Joel Feinberg, Sandra Harding, Larry Laudan, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Popkin, Richard Rorty, Alan Ryan, Gyatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stephen Stich, Patrick Suppes and Bernard Williams, to name just a few.Also available online: www.rep.routledge.com

    It is tailored to the needs of intermediate learners of American English who already possess some basic knowledge of English but are not yet ready to use a college dictionary for native speakers. They need the help that a learner's dictionary can provide: meanings explained clearly and simply, natural examples showing how words are really used and guidance on areas of difficulty in language and culture. Their need to increase their vocabulary is addressed by a network of cross-references and usage notes which guides them from one word to other useful vocabulary items.

    Hundreds of clear, concise entries on the people, places, equipment, and events provide readers with a solid foundation on this controversial period in U.S. history. Resources include a handy chronological chart, historically important documents such as the Paris Peace Accords and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a complete list of Medal of Honor recipients, and the Orders of Battle for the U.S., North Vietnamese, and South Vietnamese forces. A detailed bibliography guides readers to respected texts on Vietnam War - related topics such as, Vietnam, the Indochina War, Dien Bien Phu, strategies, and tactics.

    Activity suggestions are included.

    Based on extensive research, the dictionary includes 140 essential topics arranged into 12 thematic units, and aims to meet the language needs of beginning and intermediate, young adult and adult learners of American English. A teacher's book contains teaching tips, lesson plans, and vocabulary practice activities. The accompanying Focused Listening Cassette provides hours of listening practice, seeking to use vocabulary in interesting and stimulating ways.

    This dictionary is for native Tagalog speakers in need of a bilingual dictionary, and for students of the Tagalog language. It features over 20,000 entries, with idioms, slang, loan words and derivations. It also has an English-Tagalog section with a vocabulary appendix and grammar guide.

    The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine of that period. Soon, however, they attracted the antagonism of the governing powers, as they have continually done throughout the following centuries. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics, the history of the Gypsies and their culture is told.

    Though updates to this edition cover many areas, there is a particular focus upon risk assessement tools and terms relating to the Mental Health Act 2005, as well as recent NHS initiatives to improve care standards.Written by medical and nursing specialists, and offering 10,200 clear and concise entries on the theory and practice of nursing, the dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of nursing professions. As well as nursing-specific terms, there are also many entries in the fields of medicine, anatomy, physiology, ethics, psychiatry, nutrition, statistics, and pharmacology. More than 100 helpful illustrations and 18 appendices covering the Code of Conduct 2008, the calculation of drug dosages, essential skill clusters, religion and nursing practice, recommended alcohol intake, and much more, help to make this an invaluable reference tool for all nursing students and professionals.

    This dictionary, with entries on more than 100 women, shows the diversity of their roles in this turbulent and disturbing period. It includes entries on resistance fighters, nurses, entertainers, writers, filmmakers, spies, and prisoners with exceptional spirit and courage. The women represented here came from all the countries involved with the Third Reich and from many different occupations before their involvement in the war--housewives, secretaries, singers, film stars, pilots, and athletes. This volume reveals the women's perspective on the history of the Third Reich.Despite the vast number of women who supported or fought against the Third Reich, historians have often neglected them and their contributions. Researchers checking the index of a book on the Third Reich might see one or two female names--usually Anne Frank or Eva Braun. This book is the first to provide biographical information on the vast number of women who helped shape the era. It offers an opportunity to reclaim a small sampling of the women who fought against or supported the Third Reich.