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Reference

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Almanacs

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2004.
  • Farmers' Almanac.
  • Information Please Almanac.recommended
  • The New Penguin Factfinder. Rev. ed. Ed. David Crystal. London: Penguin, 2004.
  • The New York Times Almanac 2004. Ed. John W. Wright. New York: Penguin, 2003.
  • Old Farmer's Almanac. ($)
  • Time Almanac 2004. Ed. Borgna Brunner.
  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 2003.recommended
  • The World Factbook.

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Encyclopedias

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Dictionaries

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Specialized dictionaries

  • Reverse dictionaries
  • Etymological dictionaries
  • Dictionaries of word parts
    • Information Please Latin and Greek Word Elements.
    • Ologies and Isms: A Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings. Ed. Michael Quinion. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
    • Word Parts Dictionary: Standard and Reverse Listings of Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots and Combining Forms. Ed. Michael Sheehan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
  • Dictionaries of idioms, euphemisms, and clichés
  • Dictionaries of slang words and phrases
    • NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions. Ed. Richard A. Spears. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC, 2000.
    • The Oxford Dictionary of Slang. Ed. John Ayto. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
    • pseudodictionary.com.
  • Dictionaries of regional words and phrases
    • The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms. Ed. Robert Hendrickson. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
    • British English for American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs, and Places of British Life and Literature. Ed. David Grote. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
  • Dictionaries of foreign words and phrases
    • Information Please Foreign Words and Phrases.
    • The Facts on File Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. Ed Martin H. Manser and David Pickering. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
    • The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. Ed. Jennifer SpeakeJennifer. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
  • Dictionaries of acronyms
    • Acronym Finder.
    • Acronym Server.
    • The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary: A Practical Compilation of Today's Acronyms and Abbreviations. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
  • Rhyming dictionaries

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Multilingual dictionaries

  • Altavista Babel Fish.
  • Arabic
    • Arabic English Lexicon. 8 vols. Ed. E.W. Lane. Lahore: Islamic Book Centre, 1978.
  • Bengali
    • English-Bengali and Bengali-English Combined Dictionary. Ed. Debasis Adhikary. New Delhi: Star, 2004.
  • FreeTranslation.com.
  • French
  • From Language to Language.
  • German
  • Greek
    • Ancient: A Greek-English Lexicon. Ed. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, Roderick McKenzie. 9th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.
    • Modern: ?.
  • HandSpeak.
  • Hindi/Urdu
    • Oxford English-Hindi Dictionary. Ed. S.K. Verma and R.N. Sahai. ?:?, ?.
    • The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary. Ed. R.S. McGregor. ?:?, ?.
  • The Internet Dictionary Project.
  • Italian
    • Cassell's Italian Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italian. Rev. ed. Ed. Piero Rébora, Francis M Guercio, and Arthur Lawrence Hayward. London: Cassell, 1994.
  • Japanese
    • Kana: Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English, English-Japanese. Ed. Masatoshi Yoshida and Yoshikatsu Nakamura. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1999.
    • Romaji: Random House Japanese-English, English-Japanese Dictionary. Ed. Seigo Nak. New York: Random House, 1995.
  • Latin
    • Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin. Ed. D.P. Simpson. London: Cassell, 1977.
    • Latin-English Dictionary.
  • Mandarin Chinese
    • Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Ed. Martin H. Manser. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
  • Portuguese
    • HarperCollins Portuguese Dictionary: Portuguese-English/English-Portuguese. 2nd ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
  • Russian
    • The Oxford Russian Dictionary. 3rd ed. Ed. Marcus Wheeler, et al. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
  • Spanish
    • Larousse Unabridged Dictionary: Spanish-English, English-Spanish. 2nd ed. Mexico City: Larousse, 2004.
  • Translated.net.
  • yourDictionary.com Language Dictionaries.

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Thesauri

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Books of Quotations

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Search Engines

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Ask an Expert

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Research

  • Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. recommended
  • Barzun, Jacques, and Henry F. Graff. The Modern Researcher. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 19??.

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Writing

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Miscellaneous

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Arts and Humanities

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Art History

  • A Dictionary of Architecture and Building: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive. 1966.
  • Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. 2000.
  • A Dictionary of Landscape Architecture. 1987.
  • Encyclopedia of World Art.
  • Grove's Dictionary of Art. ?:?, ?
  • ?,?. The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists. ?: ?, 1994
  • Fleming, John, et al. Penguin Dictionary of Architecture. 4th ed. New York: Viking, 1991.
  • Hunt, William D., Jr. Encyclopedia of American Architects. ?: McGraw-Hill, 1980.
  • Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists. ?: Phaidon, 1978.
  • Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering, and Construction. 5 vols. 1988.
  • Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. 3 vols. 1997.
  • Historic Architecture Sourcebook. 1977.
  • Gardner, Helen. Art through the Ages. 10th ed. ?:?, 1996.
  • Hartt, Frederick. Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 4th ed. ?:?, 1993.
  • Janson, H.W. History of Art. 5th ed. ?:?, 1995.
  • Marks, Claude. World Artists, 1950-1980. ?: Wilson, 1984.
  • Musgrove, John, ed. A History of Architecture. 19th ed. ?: Butterworth, 1987.
  • Random House Library of Painting and Sculpture. ?: Random House, 1981.
  • American Art Directory.
  • Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists.
  • Bibliography of the History of Art.
  • Dictionary of Architecture. GC Ref NA31.C86 1999
    The Dictionary of Art. GC Ref N31.D5 1996
    International Directory of Arts. GC Ref N50.I6
    The Worldwide Bibliography of Art Exhibition Catalogues, 1963-1987

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Classics

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  • Oxford Classical Dictionary
  • Ancient Writers : Greece and Rome, by T.J. Luce
  • Greek and Latin Authors : 800 B.C - A.D. 1000 : A Biographical Dictionary, by M. Grant
  • Tusculum-Lexikon : griechischer und lateinischer Autoren des Altertums und des Mittelalter
  • The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites
  • Chronology of the Ancient World
  • Greek Literature (Cambridge History of Classical Literature, v.1)
  • Latin Literature (Cambridge History of Classical Literature, v.2)
  • Oxford Companion to Classical Literature - DE5 H3 Main
  • Dictionary of Classical Mythology, by P. Grimal
  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae : (LIMC)
  • Dictionary of quotations (Classical)
  • A Greek-English lexicon, by H.G. Liddell
  • English-Greek dictionary; a vocabulary of the Attic language, by S.C. Woodhouse
  • A patristic Greek lexicon, by G.W.H. Lampe
  • Oxford Latin dictionary

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Composition Studies

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  • Enos, Theresa, ed. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition.
  • Lindemann, Erika. A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
  • Moran, Michael G., and Ronald F. Lunsford, eds. Research in Composition and Rhetoric: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.
  • Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper, and Kurt Schick, eds. A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. New York: Oxford, 2001.
  • Berlin, James A.
  • Berlin, James A.
  • Connors, Robert J.
  • Corbett, Edward P.J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate, eds. The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. 4th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
  • Graves, Richard L., ed. Rhetoric and Composition: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Writers. 3rd. ed. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1990.
  • Horner, Winifred Bryan, ed.
  • Lindemann, Erika, and Gary Tate, eds. An Introduction to Composition Studies. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
  • North, Stephen M. The Making of Knowledge in Composition.
  • Villanueva, Victor, Jr., ed. Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997.
  • Wiley, Mark, Barbara Gleason, and Louise Wetherbee Phelps, eds. Composition in Four Keys: Inquiring into the Field. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1996.

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CompPile

Conference on College Composition and Communication

Rhetcomp.com

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Film Studies

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  • The Complete Film Dictionary
  • Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory.
  • International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers.
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  • Cook, Pam, and Mieke Bernink, eds. The Cinema Book.. London: BFI , 1999.
  • Hayward, Susan 1996 : Key Concepts in Cinema Studies.. London: Routledge
  • Hill, John & Pamela Church Gibson 1998 : The Oxford Guide to Film Studies.. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • Monaco, James 1981 : How to Read a Film.. New York: Oxford University Press
  • Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey 1997 : The Oxford History of World Cinema.. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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History

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  • Zinn, Howard.

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Literature

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  • Abrams, M.H.
  • Gassner, John, and Edward Quinn, eds. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama. ?: Crowell, 1969.
  • Hartnoll, Phyllis, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983.
  • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. 5 vols. ?: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
  • Shipley, Joseph T. Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays. Rev. ed. ?: Crown, 1984.
  • Vinson, James, ed. Contemporary Dramatists. ?: St. Martin's, 1973.

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Music

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  • Apel, Willi, ed. The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Rev. ed. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969.
  • Arnold, Denis, ed. The New Oxford Companion to Music. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983.
  • Kennedy, Michael. The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
  • Kerfield, Barry. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. ?: Macmillan, 1988.
  • Koegler, Horst. Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982.
  • Randall, Don, ed. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986.
  • Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 20 vols. ?: Macmillan, 1980.
  • Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 4 vols. ?: Macmillan, 1992.
  • Sadie, Stanley, ed. The Norton-Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music New York: Norton, 1988.
  • Slonimsky, Nicolas, ed. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Schirmer, 1985.
  • Abraham, Gerald. The Concise Oxford History of Music. New York: Oxford UP, 1980.
  • Borroff, Edith. Music in Europe and the United States: A History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971.
  • Collier, James L. The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive Guide. New York: Dell, 1979.
  • Grout, Donald Jay. A History of Western Music. New York: Norton, 1988.
  • Jezic, Diane Peacock. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. ?: Feminist, 1989.
  • Pendle, Karin., ed. Women and Music: A History. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
  • Kirstein, Lincoln. Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing. ?: Princeton, 1987.
  • Kobbe, Gustave. The Definitive Kobbe's Opera Book. ?: Putnam, 1987.
  • Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
  • Lang, Paul Henry.
  • McDonagh, Don. The Rise and Fall of Modern Dance. ?: ?, 1990.
  • Megill, Donald D., and Richard S. Demory. Introduction to Jazz History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984.
  • Oliver, Paul, Max Harrison, and William D. Bolcom. Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz. New York: Norton, 1986.
  • Sadie, Stanley, ed. Brief Guide to Music. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.
  • Stephenson, Richard M., and Joseph Iaccarino. The Complete Book of Ballroom Dancing. ?: Doubleday, 1980.

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Philosophy

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American Studies

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Area Studies

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Cultural Studies

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Ethnic Studies

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Gender Studies

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Rhetoric

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  • Barilli.
  • Bizzell and Herzberg.
  • Conley.
  • Covino
  • Enos.
  • Golden.
  • Herrick.
  • Horner.
  • Kennedy.
  • K.
  • Lanham, Richard.
  • Sloane.
  • Vickers, Brian.

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Theory

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Social Sciences

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Communications

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Education

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Geography

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Law

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  • A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage. Ed. Bryan A. Garner. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

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Political Science

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Religion

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Sociology

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Science

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Technology

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Libraries

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Digital Libraries

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Archives

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Government Documents

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Statistics

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Bookstores (Excl. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders)

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Current Affairs

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Newspapers

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