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Very Short Introductions (VSI) is a book series published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). The books are concise introductions to particular subjects, intended for a general audience but written by experts. Most are under 200-pages long.
10 August 2000 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 018: The Anglo-Saxon Age: John Blair: 10 August 2000: Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 019: Medieval Britain: John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths: 10 August 2000
The introduction typically describes the scope of the document and gives a brief explanation or a summary of the document. It may also explain certain elements that are important to the document. The readers can thus have an idea about the following text before they actually start reading it.
The History of Mathematics consists of seven chapters, [1] featuring many case studies. [2] [3] Its first, "Mathematics: myth and history", gives a case study of the history of Fermat's Last Theorem and of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, [4] making a case that the proper understanding of this history should go beyond a chronicle of individual mathematicians and their accomplishments ...
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Most notably, Ogden allowed only 18 verbs, which he called "operators". His "General Introduction" says, "There are no 'verbs' in Basic English", [verify] with the underlying assumption that, as noun use in English is very straightforward but verb use/conjugation is not, the elimination of verbs would be a welcome simplification. [note 1]
The Ocean County Sheriff’s Office’s Drone Command Center, stationed right on Vision Beach in Seaside Heights, has three massive TV screens so deputies can track airplane traffic overhead ...