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2012 See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2012 2013 See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2013 2014 See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2014 2015[1] January Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt – Marcus O’Dair Reaching down […]
Continue ReadingEncyclopedias before 1700 Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC – 27 BC) Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder (AD 77-79); highly influential through the Middle Ages, the oldest encyclopedia for which there is an extant copy De verborum significatu by Sextus Pompeius Festus (2nd century AD) Onomasticon by Julius Pollux (2nd […]
Continue ReadingSurveys, general and comparative studies, and reference works Abel, Theodore. The Nazi Movement. New York: Atherton, 1966. Ailsby, Christopher. The Third Reich Day by Day. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2005. Arad, Yitzhak, ed. The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. Jerusalem and New York: Yad Vashem and Macmillan, 1990. Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Orlando, […]
Continue ReadingAnnals and chronicles Annals of the Four Masters Annals of Boyle Genealogical Leabhar na nGenealach Leabhar Cloinne Maoil Ruanaidh Cuimre na nGenealach The Book of the Burkes An Leabhar Muimhneach Leabhar Adhamh Ó Cianáin Grammar Auraicept na n-Éces Sanas Cormaic Historical Carte Manuscripts Codex Nuttall 16th century, Mixtec Red Book of Hergest 14th century, Welsh […]
Continue Reading0 – 9 1914 – Wilford Owen A A Question – Robert Frost A Terre – Wilford Owen Absalom and Achitophel – John Dryden (1681, continuation attrib. to Nahum Tate) Adam’s Curse – William Butler Yeats Address to the Deil – Robert Burns Aeneid – Virgil (1st century BC) After Apple-Picking – Robert Frost The […]
Continue ReadingWho’s Who (or “Who is Who”) is the title of a number of reference publications, generally containing concise biographical information on a particular group of people. The title is also used as an expression meaning a collection or group of noted persons; as in the sentence, “The actors in the film were a Who’s Who […]
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