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Three days following a deadly shooting, the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ holds worship; Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore holds strong convictions; and the 500-year-old Book of Common Prayer ...

ACRL announces the publication of Navigating Disability in the Academic Library Workplace, edited by Paula Martin and ...

Are dictionaries going the way of dodos, pocket calculators and civil discourse? Some dictionaries are still printed but, increasingly, the reference books have moved online. And, as Stefan Fatsis ...

The word “aplomb” means having self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation. It is a noun that ...

Tangible assets are the assets on a company's books and balane sheet that have a physical form. They comprise the machinery, office equipment and buildings used by a company (fixed assets) and of the ...

Book balance is the amount of money a company believes it has based on its accounting. What Is Book Balance? A book balance is a running tally of a company’s account balance based on all transactions.

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Now a new, 700-page, collection titled Muheet-ul-Amsaal: Kahavaton Aur Maqoolon ka Majmoo’a has just come out. Compiled by Wasiullah Khokhar and published by Lahore’s Daarun Navaadir, it is the ...

For years, the most beloved part of my personal library was my two-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary (“the OED,” to word nerds everywhere). Poring over its tissue-thin pages, tracing a ...

A few years ago, when the conversation over the racist nickname and racist iconography of the NFL team that maintained racist ...