Wisden Group Wisden Group The Wisden Group was a group of companies formed by John Wisden & Co Ltd, publishers of "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack". As well as John Wisden & Co, the group included the magazine "The Wisden Cricketer", Cricinfo – the world's highest traffic cricket website – and the Hawk-Eye computerised ball-tracking system, which is used by the media in cricket, tennis and other sports. The group also owned "The Oldie", a general interest British magazine aimed at older readers. Sir John Paul Getty was chairman of John Wisden & Co from 1993 until his death in 2003, when he was
The Roots of Reference 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 originally gave in 1971 at the American Philosophical Association conference. These three lectures were then revised