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This website is an excellent, monolingual Portuguese dictionary. It holds over 95,000 entries and numerous other features that will assist the student of Portuguese. These include: the conjugation of over 13,000 verbs; a good guide to the essentials of Portuguese grammar; an automatic spell-checker; and the incorporation of reflexive forms within search results. The dictionary is easy to use, and simple or detailed searches for words may be conducted. The user may either request a simple definition, or more detailed information regarding the thematic context of a word, geographic variations, register and etymology. The site offers users help with searching, examples of how to search and the possible results, and definitions of all the abbreviations used within the dictionary. This is a great online resource for students at any level.

Gideon O. Burton's searchable website, 'Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric', offers a detailed introduction to an extensive number of rhetorical tropes and schemes, and branches of rhetoric employed first in classical oratory, and subsequently taught in the Inns of Court, universities and grammar schools of Renaissance England. The site features a timeline of rhetorical texts, classical through to Renaissance, some including links to descriptions and outlines of works cited. There is also a useful site search facility which can also be used to search the Web, although searches do bring up some commercial websites.Burton provides a useful introduction to rhetoric for students of classical and Renaissance literature and culture and a very good quick reference source for postgraduates and academics.

Students can select level, the area they want to study, the type of film and even the accent they want to learn. TubeQuizard will generate activities for them based around the subtitles. They can then listen, fill in gaps and check their answers. There is also a search engine so that you can type in a specific phrase and find a video that contains that text. You can also create your own video quizzes. You can either search for a video using the search tool on the site or copy paste in the URL of the video you want to use. The only limitation here is that the video must have subtitles available

The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.

Information about various authors and their literary works which were inspired by events and people in colonial New England -- among them, Arthur Miller (The Crucible) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlett Letter and "Young Goodman Brown"). The webpage is part of a larger site published and compiled by Margo Burns, who has worked on the University of Virginia Salem witchcraft trials etext project. This site provides hundreds of annotated links to resources on seventeenth century USA. The links are arranged by subject to ease searches and include: archaeological exploration of the period; audio programmes on relevant topics; daily life; images and facsimiles; Native American Indians; and Increase and Cotton Mather. Burns is good when writing in the field of her expertise, which is the Salem trials for witchcraft and there are several good documents on the site.

The Web Site "Scottish Bibliographies Online Catalogue" presents information on and links to the following bibliographies: Bibliography of Scotland (BOS); Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG); Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT); Bibliography of the Scots Language (BOSLAN); Union Catalogue of Art Books in Libraries in Scotland (UCABLIS); US and Canadian Newspaper Holdings in Scottish Libraries; Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI); and Scottish Books 1505-1640. As such this is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying Scots language, Scottish history, literature, and culture. It is useful for international scholars wishing to locate particular works or editions of works. The databases can be searched by subject, author or keyword, and there is a facility for a cross search.

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the internet resource dedicated to new titles, new authors, and the general scoop on the book industry. Use this site to search book reviews, read about the latest releases, watch author video clips, and learn about upcoming book events. Take a look around, bookmark this site, and stop back often; there are many new and exciting titles that await your discovery

This index lists, and links to, articles, essays, conference papers and other material on Scottish literature and language available free on-line. In the index, articles are listed by author, and by subject or title. The names of authors of articles are in CAPITALS. Subjects of articles (including names of writers) are in bold. Bulleted items are written by the same author(s), or about the same subject, as the entries they follow. The first link in an entry is to the text of the paper. The second link is to the journal or conference page where the paper was published or presented. Some links lead to other sites; these will open in a new window.You can search the index using the Find function (under the Edit menu). If you have trouble connecting to any of these papers, or if you would like to recommend a link, please contact ASLS.

Chinese Civilization in time and space is an innovative research tool being developed by Academia Sinica, Taiwan which aims to provide scholars with free access to GIS data applications showing maps and timelines of Chinese history over the past 2,000 years to the Qing Dynasty. It integrates geospatial materials, based on historical atlases of china, with other geographical and historical research databases including text from the Scripta Sinica, and the The Bibliography of Chinese Local Gazetteers. Topics covered include: geographical changes in the Yellow River; the development of urban areas; archaeology and archaeological sites in China; a database of information on famous persons in Chinese history; a historical atlas of place names from China and Taiwan. The database may be searched. users should note that much information is offered in Chinese only. Technical and copyright information is provided.

BookSpot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. From the site, quickly and easily find bestseller lists, book awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books, author and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and much more.

This special site gives you free access to an online catalogue of over 30,000 nineteenth-century works available on microfiche. It allows you to search the largest and most important collection of nineteenth-century works for research and teaching

RASCAL is an electronic gateway to research resources in Ireland. You can use this web-site to search and browse information about the wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives across the region. The Directory consists of comprehensive descriptions of collections available to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences recording details of content, location, format, and access. Links to institutions' on-line catalogues and other digital resources are provided where appropriate

This Web site, from the Trésor de la langue française au Québec, provides a freely accessible, online database of the linguistic differences throughout the francophone world. Countries and regions featured here include Belgium; Burundi; Louisiana; Morocco; Quebec; and Switzerland. Users may conduct simple or complex searches for particular words, or browse through the region-specific 'dictionaries'.