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Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends. She also travelled further afield - to Norway, France, Italy, Greece and South Africa - but always returned to the hou...

Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone takes a look at how dictionaries are made, considering how they reflect the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.

Maggie promises to stand up for herself, Ella promises not to let her heart rule her head, Ethan promises 'no more women'...

12th edition. This centenary edition of the "Concise Oxford English Dictionary" presents the most accurate picture of English today, with over 240, 000 words, phrases and definitions, hundreds of them new, based on the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus. It comes with a free booklet celebrating the centenary, and '100 Years On' feature entries show how English has developed over the last century.

Examining the modern origins of artificial intelligence, this book explores issues of what it means to be man or machine and looks at advances in robotics which have blurred the boundaries.