Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 10th Edition (Soft Cover)
The oxford advanced learner’s dictionary is the world’s bestselling advanced level dictionary for learners of english. Now in its 10th edition, the oxford advanced learner’s dictionary, or oald, is your complete guide to learning english vocabulary with definitions that learners can understand
Little Oxford English Dictionary
The little oxford english dictionary draws on the analysis of hundreds of millions of words of ‘real’ english carried out for the new oxford dictionary of english.
Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary
The compact oxford italian dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary italian and english. Includes all essential italian and english words, based on findings from the oxford languages tracker
Oxford Mini Thesaurus
For anyone needing an affordable and easily portable thesaurus. Ideal for quick reference for home, work, or study.
Oxford Essential German Dictionary
Compact and handy german-english and english-german dictionary with up-to-date vocabulary. Over 40,000 words and phrases, and 60,000 translations. Includes sections on german verbs, irregular english verbs, and pronunciation help
Little Oxford Dictionary Thesaurus & Wordpower Guide (South Asia Edition)
Authoritative, compact, and up to date, the pocket oxford dictionary, thesaurus, and wordpower guide is the perfect three-in-one reference for use at school, home, or the office. It contains a dictionary with over 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions; a thesaurus with over 130,000 alternative and opposite words.
Oxford English-English Tamil Dictionary
An authoritative dictionary for students, teachers, translators and general readers includes over 50,000 entries and related phrases and idioms includes over 200 illustrations covers a wide range of scientific and technical vocabulary lists words relevant to the indian subcontinent gives accurate pronunciation in english provides detailed meanings and synonyms in english and tamil includes detailed notes on english grammar, vocabulary and usage
Oxford Beginners Japanese Dictionary
A new easy-to-use japanese dictionary, specifically suited to adult beginner level, offering all the words and phrases you’ll need as a beginner, plus a complete learning and lifestyle kit with a list of the words you really need to know, grammar help, verb tables, social survival tips and cultural information, dates for your diary, and a phrasefinder.
This Idea Is Brilliant
What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question john brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon edge.org (“the world’s smartest website”—the guardian), presented to 205 of the world’s most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrum—award-winning physicists, economists, psychologists, philosophers, novelists, artists, and more. From the origins of the universe to the order of everyday life, this idea is brilliant takes readers on a tour of the bold, exciting, and underappreciated scientific concepts that will enrich every mind.
Letters From An Astrophysicist
The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you’ve got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all’ – neil degrasse tyson neil degrasse tyson is arguably the most influential, acclaimed scientist on the planet. As director of the hayden planetarium, and host of cosmos and startalk, he has dedicated his life to exploring and explaining the mysteries of the universe. Every year, he receives thousands of letters – from students to prisoners, scientists to priests.
The Grand Design
The grand design is a popular-science book written by physicists stephen hawking and leonard mlodinow and published by bantam books in 2010. The book examines the history of scientific knowledge about the universe and explains eleven-dimensional m-theory.
The Uninhabitable Earth
The book fleshes out wallace-wells’ original magazine piece in more detail, dovetailing into discussions surrounding various possibilities for earth’s future across a spectrum of predicted future temperature ranges. It argues that even with active intervention, the effects of climate change will have catastrophic impacts across multiple spheres: rising sea levels, extreme heat events, extinctions, disease outbreaks, fires, droughts, and increased geopolitical conflict, among others.
Why We Sleep
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don’t sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life – eating, drinking, and reproducing – the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
Enlightenment Now
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual steven pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases.
Unlocking the Universe
Have you ever wondered how the universe began? Or what it takes to put humans on the moon – or even on mars? What would you do if you could travel through space and time? Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this beautiful collection of up-to-the-minute essays mind-blowing facts and out-of-this-world colour photographs, by the world’s leading scientists including professor stephen hawking himself, curated by the brilliant lucy hawking.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A short history of nearly everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the big bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill bryson’s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology.
A Brief History of Time
A brief history of time: from the big bang to black holes is a popular-science book on cosmology by english physicist stephen hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for readers without prior knowledge of physics and people who are just interested in learning something new.
Factfulness
“hans rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.”