Dictionaries

A unique gazetteer that clearly explains the fascinating origins and meanings behind the names of over 1,700 places, streets, and areas within the English capital, including the Greater London Boroughs. It also features maps, an extended introduction on the development of these place-names, a detailed glossary, and recommended web links.

This fully revised and updated dictionary of modern and contemporary art contains over 2,000 entries on a vast range of subjects, including movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, schools, and galleries. Fascinating, comprehensive, and authoritative, it is an essential A-Z guide for art students and teachers, artists, and art lovers.

Covers over 150 years of international design, including ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion, as well as biographical entries on designers, manufacturers, major museums and heritage sites. This dictionary serves as a useful student reference tool.

With over 1500 entries, this popular dictionary provides concise and up to date explanations of the theories, approaches and terminology that define front-line social work and social care.

This new dictionary gives the definitions of over 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the world, including mainstream sports. Entries cover sports equipment, strategies, venues, qualifying categories, awards, and administrative bodies, while a comprehensive system of cross-references offers assistance when needed. One appendix lists standard abbreviations of sports ruling bodies and administrative organizations.

Patrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant academics and a leading expert internationally in the theory of theatre. Dictionary of the Theatre is an English translation of Pavis's acclaimed Dictionnaire du theatre, now in its second printing in France.This encyclopedic dictionary includes theoretical, technical, and semiotic terms and concepts. Alphabetical entries range from 'absurd' to 'word scenery' and treat the reader to a vast panoply of theatre and theory. The extended discussions are supported by useful examples drawn from the international repertoire of plays and playwrights, both classic and contemporary. The Foreword is by Marvin Carlson.This dictionary is remarkably well integrated, partly because of its excellent system of cross-referencing, but also because it represents the vision and scholarship of a single, recognized authority. There is no other source like it available and it will be warmly welcomed by the English-language theatre world.

This best-selling dictionary is the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its kind, containing over 5,250 entries on all aspects of zoology. Complemented with numerous illustrations, it includes terms from the areas of ecology, animal behaviour, evolution, earth history, zoogeography, genetics, and physiology and it provides full taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The third edition has been fully revised and updated and includes many new entries, for example, alarm pheromone, Fick's laws, manometer, and synanthrope. It also features new material on behavioural ecology and conservation biology, and expanded coverage of cytology and taxonomy. New to this edition are recommended web links for many entries, which are accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Zoology companion website. Web links provide valuable extra information by directing you to useful online resources and the homepages of relevant organizations. Following the A-Z dictionary are detailed appendices of endangered animals, the universal genetic code, the geologic time scale, and SI units.Wide-ranging, authoritative, and with jargon-free definitions, this dictionary is an indispensable reference tool for students and teachers of zoology, biological sciences and biomedical sciences, and a valuable resource for naturalists and anyone with an interest in animals.

Ce Dictionnaire présente, à travers près de 5 000 articles et plus de 500 représentations de pièces, l'ensemble de la production monétaire de tous les pays, des origines à nos jours. Privilégiant le monde occidental, il accorde cependant une large place au proche et lointain Orient. Depuis l'apparition des premières monnaies en Lydie au VIe siècle avant J.-C. et des cauris en Chine, dont l'usage monétaire est établi au XIe siècle avant J.-C., jusqu'à celle de l'euro le 1er janvier 2002, sont recensées toutes les notions nécessaires à la compréhension et aux plaisirs de la numismatique : les systèmes monétaires anciens les plus importants ; les ateliers féodaux et royaux français ; les monnaies des pays contemporains ; les termes de technique monétaire, notamment ceux qui sont liés aux processus de fabrication ; les grands numismates.

Al-Andalus, Carmen, don Quichotte, Goya, l'Inquisition, Vélasquez, la Tauromachie, mais aussi Franco, Burgos, Almodovar, Picasso, Lorca et Unamuno : voilà quelques-unes des entrées de ce Dictionnaire amoureux, qui parle aussi bien de l'Espagne d'hier que de celle d'aujourd'hui. Ombres et lumières. Autant de prétextes qui en tableaux flamboyants permettent de faire retentir le chant profond de l'Espagne, de suivre le fil qui du plus lointain passé court jusqu'à nos jours. Il fallait toute la culture, la sensibilité et la distance d'un grand romancier pour brosser cette fresque emportée d'un pays qui aura produit l'une des plus hautes civilisations de l'Europe.

Conçu comme un guide pratique à l'usage des amateurs comme des professionnels, ce lexique s'attache à définir les principaux termes de l'architecture, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours. A l'aide d'environ 600 entrées et de plus d'une centaine de figures, les auteurs se proposent de vous donner des clefs de lecture pour identifier et repérer les éléments de l'architecture. Grâce à ses nombreuses illustrations qui concernent l'architecture fortifiée, religieuse, civile, mais aussi la charpente, la maçonnerie, le vitrail, etc., le dictionnaire d'architecture vous permettra de mieux connaître l'architecture et d'apprécier la richesse de ses compositions. Dans vos visites d'édifices ou dans vos lectures, cet ouvrage facile d'utilisation vous sera d'une aide précieuse.