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| x The Catcher in the Rye |
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The Catcher in the Rye | Fiction | Holden Caulfield |
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, the novel has become a common part of high school and college curricula throughout the English-speaking world; it has also been translated into almost all of...
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| x Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World |
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (ISBN 978-0201483406) is a 1994 book by Kevin Kelly. (The book was also published as Out of control : the rise of neo-biological civilization.) Major themes in Out...
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| x Asia Grace |
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Asia Grace | Coffee table book | ||
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| x Cool Tools |
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| x Bicycle Haiku |
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Bicycle Haiku | Poetry | ||
| x New Rules for the New Economy |
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| x Simulacra and Simulation |
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Simulacra and simulation | Philosophy |
Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation in French) is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard that discusses the interaction between reality, symbols and society.
Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images,...
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| x The Gulf War Did Not Take Place |
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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place | Sociology |
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a book by Jean Baudrillard, is a collection of three essays published in Libération and the Guardian between January and March 1991. Contrary to the provocative title, the author believes that the events and violence...
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| x The Mirror of Production |
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Mirror of Production | Economics |
The Mirror of Production is a 1973 book by Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism. Baudrillard's thesis is that Marx’s theory of historical materialism is too rooted in assumptions of political economy to provide a framework for...
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| x The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work |
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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work |
The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-02595-1). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and...
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| x The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer |
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Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: the ideas behind the world's slowest computer | |||
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| x The Connection Machine |
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The Connection Machine | Non-fiction | ||
| x How Buildings Learn |
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How buildings learn | Reference |
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built is an illustrated book on the evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing requirements over long periods. It was written by Stewart Brand and published by Viking Press in 1994....
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| x The Big U |
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The Big U | Science fiction |
The Big U (1984) is Neal Stephenson's first published novel, a satire of campus life.
The story follows the misadventures of a socially inept physics student, a pair of gun-wielding lesbians, a hardcore LARP/war gaming club, and other misfits...
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| The big U | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x Snow Crash |
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Snow Crash | Cyberpunk | Hiro Protagonist |
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy.
Stephenson...
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| Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) | Science fiction | Y.T. | |||
| Snow Crash | Postcyberpunk | Juanita Marquez | |||
| Snow Crash | Fiction | Da5id Meier | |||
| Snow Crash | Speculative fiction | Dr. Emanuel Lagos | |||
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| x The Diamond Age |
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The Diamond Age | Science fiction | Carl Hollywood |
The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main motifs...
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| The Diamond Age | Cyberpunk | Miranda | |||
| The Diamond Age | Postcyberpunk | Dr. X. | |||
| The diamond age | Fiction | Judge Fang | |||
| Diamond Age | Speculative fiction | Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw | |||
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| x The Cobweb |
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The Cobweb | Fiction |
The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with Frederick George. In early editions it is credited to the pseudonym Stephen Bury.
When Clyde Banks, an Iowan Deputy with a newborn baby and a wife in the first Gulf War, starts looking into...
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| The Cobweb | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x Cryptonomicon |
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Cryptonomicon | Novel | Enoch Root |
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. It concurrently follows both the exploits of World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley...
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| Criptonomicon III : El codigo Aretusa | Fiction | Goto Dengo | |||
| Criptonomicon II : El codigo Pontifex | Randall Lawrence Waterhouse | ||||
| Criptonomicon I | Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe | ||||
| Cryptonomicon. | America Shaftoe | ||||
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| x The Confusion |
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The Confusion | Historical novel | Enoch Root |
The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle.
The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are "con-fused" together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through...
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| The confusion | Fiction | Jack Shaftoe | |||
| The Confusion (Baroque Cycle 2) | Historical fiction | Daniel Waterhouse | |||
| The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2) | Speculative fiction | Eliza | |||
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| x The System of the World |
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The system of the world | Science fiction | Isaac Newton |
The System of the World, a novel by Neal Stephenson, is the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle.
The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name.
The System of...
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| System of the World | Historical novel | Daniel Waterhouse | |||
| The System of the World (Baroque Cycle 3) | Suspense fiction | Jack Shaftoe | |||
| The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) | Fiction | Enoch Root | |||
| The System of the World (Baroque Cycle, Number 3) | Speculative fiction | Eliza | |||
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| x In the Beginning...was the Command Line |
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In the Beginning...was the Command Line |
In the Beginning...was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 0380815931). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating...
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| x Dubliners |
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Dubliners | Short story |
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
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| x A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Künstlerroman |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional...
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| A portrait of the artist as a young man | Autobiography | ||||
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| x Finnegans Wake |
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Finnegans Wake | Novel |
Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for an experimental style, and its resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of 17...
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| x Ulysses |
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Ulysses | Fiction | Buck Mulligan |
Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of...
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| Ulysses | Novel | Stephen Dedalus | |||
| Ulysses | Molly Bloom | ||||
| Ulysses | Leopold Bloom | ||||
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| x Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic |
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Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic | Autobiography |
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic is a book by Paul Fussell.
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| x The Cartoon History of the Universe |
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The cartoon history of the universe | Non-fiction |
The Cartoon History of the Universe was an ongoing book series about the history of the world. It was written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick. The final two volumes, published in 2007 and 2009, were...
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| Cartoon History of the Universe 2 | History | ||||
| The Cartoon History of the Universe III | Reference | ||||
| The Cartoon History of the Universe | Humour | ||||
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| x The Cartoon History of the United States |
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| x Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species |
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| x The Trouser Press Record Guide |
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| x 38 Basic Joseki |
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| x Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945 |
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Autobiography |
Between Silk and Cyanide is a book by former SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, describing his work during the Second World War. The title is derived from an incident related in the book, when he is asked why spies in occupied Europe should have their...
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| x The Rise of Endymion |
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| x Tog on Interface |
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| x The Culture of Cities |
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The culture of cities | |||
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| x The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor |
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor | Non-fiction |
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (ISBN 0-393-04017-8), published in 1998 (with an epilogue added to the 1999 paperback edition), is a book by David Landes, currently Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Coolidge Professor of History at...
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| x 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated |
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| x The Cockroach Hall of Fame | The cockroach hall of fame |
This is out of print, replaced by America's Strangest Museums by the same author.
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| x The Elephant Vanishes |
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The Elephant Vanishes | Short story |
The Elephant Vanishes is a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1983 and 1990, and the collection's first English publication was in 1993. Several of the stories originally appeared (often...
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| The elephant vanishes | Fiction | ||||
| The Elephant Vanishes | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x Halbritter's Arms through the Ages |
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| x Programming Perl |
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Programming Perl, Third Edition |
Programming Perl, ISBN 0-596-00027-8, best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book and ebook about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991-2009) to reflect major language changes since...
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| x Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! |
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Autobiography |
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's life. Some...
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| x The Feynman Lectures on Physics |
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Feynman on Fundamentals | Science |
The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a 1964 physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, based upon the lectures given by Feynman to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1961–63...
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| x The Fall of Hyperion |
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The Fall of Hyperion | Science fiction | The Shrike |
The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. The novel was written in 1990, and won both the British Science Fiction and a Locus Awards in 1991. It was also nominated for the Hugo...
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| x Hyperion |
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) | Science fiction |
Hyperion may refer to:
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| x Endymion |
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Endymion | Science fiction |
Endymion may refer to:
Fictional characters:
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Astronomy:
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| x Summer of Night |
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Summer of Night | Horror |
Summer of Night is a horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1991 by Warner Aspect. It was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 1992.
Set in Elm Haven, Illinois, in 1960, Summer of Night recounts its five pre-teen protagonists’...
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| Summer of Night (Aspect Fantasy) | Speculative fiction | ||||
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| x A Winter's Haunting |
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A Winter Haunting | Horror |
A Winter Haunting is a 2002 horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons. It was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel in 2003.
Dale Stewert, a character from Summer of Night, has ruined his life. A fifty-one year old college professor...
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| x A Wild Sheep Chase |
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A Wild Sheep Chase | Novel |
A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険, Hitsuji o meguru bōken) is a novel published in 1982 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It is the sequel to Pinball, 1973, and is the third book in Murakami's "Trilogy of the Rat".
In A Wild Sheep Chase, Murakami blends...
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| x Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Novel |
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando) is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A strange and...
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| x South of the Border, West of the Sun |
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South of the Border, West of the Sun | Novel |
South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西, Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi) is a short, melancholic novel written by the popular Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami, in 1992 while he was a visiting scholar at the Princeton University in the...
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| South of the Border, West of the Sun | Fiction | ||||
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| x The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Novel |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru) is a novel by Haruki Murakami. The first published translation was by Alfred Birnbaum. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" ...
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| x Sputnik Sweetheart |
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Sputnik Sweetheart | Novel |
Sputnik Sweetheart (スプートニクの恋人, Spūtoniku no koibito) is a novel by Haruki Murakami, published in Japan in 1999. An English translation by Philip Gabriel was published in 2001.
The heroine of the novel is an aspiring author named Sumire, who falls in...
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| Sputnik Sweetheart | Fiction | ||||
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| x Kafka on the Shore |
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Kafka on the Shore | Novel |
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami (2002). John Updike described it as a "real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender". Since its 2005 English language release (2006...
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| x Oxford English Dictionary |
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The Oxford English Dictionary | Non-fiction |
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Two fully-bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989; as of...
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| x Concise Oxford English Dictionary |
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary (until 2002 officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary, and widely known by the abbreviation COD) is probably the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries. It was started as a derivative of the Oxford...
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| x Shorter Oxford English Dictionary |
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary. It comprises two volumes rather than the twenty needed for the full second edition of the OED. The Sixth Edition was...
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| x The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology |
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is a notable etymological dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.
Also published by OUP:
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| x New Oxford Dictionary of English |
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The New Oxford Dictionary of English (often abbreviated to NODE) is a single-volume English language dictionary first published in 1998 by the Oxford University Press. This dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary and should not be...
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