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The Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Italian and English. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from evidence from the Oxford Languages Tracker and the Oxford English Corpus. Also includes Italian and English cultural and grammar...

Business cycle theory is a broad and disparate field. Different schools of thought offer alternative explanations for cycles, often using different mathematical methods. This book aims to provide academics and graduate students of economics with a compact and accessible exposition of business cycle theory since Keynes. The author places the main...

This reference uses the text of the "Little Oxford Dictionary" to provide quick access to spellings and meanings in a colourful layout. All headwords, variants (plural forms and alternative spellings) and derivatives are displayed in colour making them particularly easy to find. Extra help is also provided in the form of usage notes, pronunciations...

Fully revised for a third edition, the best-selling Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is now better than ever. It includes new algorithms for patient management, new images and full colour photographs, and new and expanded topics including female genital mutilation, consent for operations, and pre-operative assessment. Written and...

Nearly half the world's people live in countries with federal systems of government. A common ambition of such federations-and, indeed, often a key factor in their origins-has been to create integrated internal markets capable of generating higher levels of economic growth and prosperity. Yet despite the importance of such developments, there has...

In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred...