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Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 5v, 2002
Entries cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. Also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
Addresses such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumers' behavior? This title presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.
Information Please
Comprehensive and engaging online almanac, from the publishers of the famous Information Please book almanac, provides users with reliable information in a wide range of categories.
InvestorWords.com
Glossary of investment terms that includes 6000+ definitions and 20,000 links between related terms. Search by keyword or browse an alphabetical listing.
Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons
ABC-CLIO - History Reference Online eBook.
Merriam-Webster Online
Online dictionary based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
This definitive English language guide provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words from across the English-speaking world. The usage of words is traced through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The dictionary is updated quarterly with between one and two thousand new and revised entries.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
This resource offers fully searchable, accurate, up-to-date bilingual dictionaries for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. It includes a pronunciation feature that allows users to hear how words sound as well as other language learning and usage tools.
Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
Renaissance-era topics most studied in high school world history, art, literature, economics, and science curriculum. Includes entries on a range of topics, including Florence, Galileo, heraldry, Medici family, opera, piracy, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others. Includes a master chronology with topical timelines, a bibliography with age-appropriate further reading sources, and a comprehensive index.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
More than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.
Traditional Festivals: a Multicultural Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO - History Reference Online eBook.
Visual Dictionary Online
A reference work combining dictionary-scale definitions with detailed diagrams and illustrations. Search for contextual definitions of 20,000 terms and for diagrams and illustrations by keyword or browse a thematic index of 6,000 full-color images.
YourDictionary.com
Online English dictionary providing definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results as well as specialized dictionaries, thesauri or glossaries, and other guides on acronym and abbreviations, style, rhyming and pronunciation, speech synth, and more.