Cambridge Companions Online
This internationally acclaimed series offers lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. There are nearly 250 titles available in 3 packages: The Complete Companions Collection, The Literature and Classics Companion Collection, and The Philosophy, Religion and Culture Companions Collection. From Homer to Harold Pinter, Dickens to Descartes, over 2400 searchable essays in the Humanities are now available online.
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Econometrics Society Monographs Online (ESMO)
These monographs are high quality research works in the fields of Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Quantitative Economics. ESMO, produced in partnership with the Econometric Society, integrates these works into a powerful online interface, making these unique works available online for the first time. 42 monographs are published to date, and ESMO is updated continuously with new essays and bibliographies taken from the book series as soon as they become available. Around 3 new titles will appear each year.
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Historical Statistics of the United States
The first revised and updated edition since 1975, the Millenium Edition contains more than 37,000 annual time series of historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Each series is fully documented and placed in historical context by a recognized expert. This new edition adds thirty years of data and contains coverage of dozens of topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 edition, such as American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity.
The online edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States offers numerous features including:
- Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays
- Save your search criteria
- Search within a chapter or volume
- Bookmark tables or essays
- View tables in PDF or HTML format
- Create custom tables; merge columns from multiple tables to create custom tables, which can also be downloaded, printed, or graphed
- Create and download colorful charts, graphs, and plots
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Histories Online
Cambridge Histories Online brings you access to the unrivalled Cambridge Histories collection, a collection that has become an established and essential component of the academic research library. Cambridge Histories Online contains 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship. They are generally split down into two 'types': Histories devoted mainly to political and economic history (for example The Cambridge History of China); and Histories devoted to subjects (for example The Cambridge History of Renaissance Political Thought).
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LECTRIX: Ancient Classics in a New Light
Lectrix is a powerful online tool designed to help students read Greek and Latin texts in the original language. It provides all the information required to understand a text at the click of a mouse, including commentaries, dictionary, parser and translation. Four Greek and four Latin texts are available.
The main focus of the interface is on the text, which is complemented by a range of study tools including a dictionary, a grammatical parser, an English translation, basic and advanced commentaries, and a library of web pages with background material on grammar and context.
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Shakespeare Survey Online
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. This wealth of information is now available as a fully searchable online product.
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ORLANDO: Women's Writing in the British Isles, From the Beginnings to the Present
Orlando is a comprehensive electronic database relating to women's writing in the British Isles, from the earliest times to today. It offers a wealth of biographical and critical information on more than 850 British women writers, together with related entries on literary and historical events, male writers and non-British women writers. Orlando also includes entries on living writers, and is updated at regular intervals with new information relating to past and present events.
Topics covered include:
- Over 20,000 bibliographical listings and 30,000 event listings, from the early medieval period to today.
- Highly detailed lines of enquiry can be pursued, from the financial situation of literary women in the nineteenth century to women's literary representations of warfare.
- Regularly updated with new or revised author entries, and information relating to living writers.
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