Wisden Cricketers' Almanack activity among cricket followers, and early editions command high prices. The first edition, only 112 pages long, sold for one shilling. Rare copies of the early editions can sell for thousands of pounds. Although devoting most of its pages to a survey of the contents of Wisden from 1864 to 2010, the last 44 pages of "The Wisden Collector's Guide" contains a significant amount of information of interest and practical use to the collector. The two main UK-based on-line resources for "Wisden" collectors are the Wisdens.org (www.wisden.guru) and "Wisden" Collectors Club websites (see External Links). Facilities offered by the former
The Roots of Reference created for the Carus Lectures, Quine states his ontological position in a "delightfully relaxed, good-humored style." The Roots of Reference The Roots of Reference is a 1974 book by philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands on his earlier concepts about the inscrutability of reference and examines problems with traditional empiricism, arguing for a naturalized epistemology based on holism. Quine's draft was initially developed in 1970 as an expansion of ideas presented in "Word and Object" (1960) about language acquisition. The book is divided into three sections, one for each of the three Paul Carus Lectures he