Reference Books I Talked About on Saturday.
Saturday, November 19, 2005 by Erin
Some links are to places where you can buy these books; for multivolume or expensive titles I've linked to other places (Worldcat, LOC, Wikipedia) that give more information about the titles so you can find them in a library near you.
The New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Word Menu (link is to software version; book version is here.)
How and Where to Look it Up
The NYPL Book of How and Where to Look it Up
The Reader's Encyclopedia
Masterplots
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
The Oxford Book of Phrase, Saying, & Quotation
Walker's Rhyming Dictionary
Timetables of History
Encyclopedia of Associations
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Dictionary of American Family Names
US Corporate Histories
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Lesser-Known Women
Le Petit Larousse grand format
Dictionary of Worldwide Gestures
Sites:
Visual Thesaurus
and more links here: links from VERBATIM
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subscription sites:
OED.com
Oxford Reference
American National Biography Online
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
The New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Word Menu (link is to software version; book version is here.)
How and Where to Look it Up
The NYPL Book of How and Where to Look it Up
The Reader's Encyclopedia
Masterplots
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
The Oxford Book of Phrase, Saying, & Quotation
Walker's Rhyming Dictionary
Timetables of History
Encyclopedia of Associations
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Dictionary of American Family Names
US Corporate Histories
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Lesser-Known Women
Le Petit Larousse grand format
Dictionary of Worldwide Gestures
Sites:
Visual Thesaurus
and more links here: links from VERBATIM
find neat new links by subscribing to Neat New Stuff I Found on the Net This Week
subscription sites:
OED.com
Oxford Reference
American National Biography Online
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
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