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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change (Arnold Publication)

1 review

A Hodder Arnold Publication, 2003

What is a Geoindicator? What the heck is Geoconservation?
A must for researchers in quaternary geology, physical geography, and the like. Compiled by British geoscientists who like to throw an occasional a in front of the letter e (see title), but we can forgive them for this. Extensive bibliographies provided for most entries...for a change. If you're an earth scientist or student in need of the right words to describe 'the end of the world as we know ...

The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States
Philip H. Herbst

Intercultural Press, 1997

The juxtaposition of ethnicities in the United States has had many repercussions, and confusion has plagued the scene. And, as with all issues of conflict, language can serve to clear up or further muddy the waters. In the interests of clarity, Philip Herbst has taken a scholarly, unbiased approach to bias, defining more than 850 ethnic and racial terms, including etymology, development, and connotations. From "Abie" to "Zulu," with slurs ...

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology
Graham Davey

A Hodder Arnold Publication, 2006

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology is a core reference for any student of psychology. It is authoritative and accessible, and covers the basic curriculum content of a degree course along with more specialized material in areas of widespread interest. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary presents more than 1500 different entries grouped into 8 thematic topic areas, and on a range of levels from brief definitions to more substantial discussions ...

Styles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art

4 reviews
Amy Dempsey

Thames & Hudson, 2005

Systematic and motivating
A guide easy to handle, clear in concepts, and packed with information relvant to students. The selction of pictures is very relevant.

Donning International Encyclopaedic Psychic Dictionary

5 reviews

Whitford Press,U.S., 1986

Excellent, easy-to-use reference
June Bletzer's "Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary" covers a vast array of topics, from nineteenth-century spiritualism to twentieth-century occultism, all the way up to today's many varieties of new age mysticism. Arranged in a dictionary format, her definitions are balanced and fair, making this a very handy and useful reference. I'm a spiritual writer and teacher, and I use this book regularly ...

A to Z of Sports Cars, 1945-1990: The Encyclopaedic Guide to More Than 850 Marques and Thousands of Models ...

5 reviews
Mike Lawrence

Motorbooks, 1996

A Bible
An excellent review of the myriad sports cars of the modern era. Provides a general overview of all the marques you know, and many you haven't heard of. Excellent value.

The International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Philatelics (International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of ...

2 reviews
R. Scott Carlton

Krause Publications, 1997

But I did not received this book though it was four days ago
But i did not received this book

Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World (Islamic ...

Brill Academic Publishers, 2006

The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of mediæval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin ? philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences. The volume begins with a general discussion of the concept of encyclopædia. ...

Elsevier's Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Medicine : Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry

Elsevier Science, 1989

Hardbound.

Wimmin, Wimps & Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in the United ...
Philip H. Herbst

Intercultural Press, 2001

Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture
Richard Yeo

Cambridge University Press, 2001

The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge that a person of education should possess. Richard Yeo places these scientific dictionaries in a rich cultural framework of debate that includes the classification of knowledge, the tradition of commonplaces, the Republic of Letters, the Enlightenment public sphere, copyright issues, and the specialization of science. He examines assumptions about ...

Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages (Mediaevalia ...

Peeters, 2007

No period in the intellectual history of North-Western Europe has been so formative as the early Middle Ages, when missionaries transferred the learning accumulated for centuries in the Mediterranean basin to recently founded centres of religious scholarship in the ever expanding Christian world. The aim of this scholarship focused, first and foremost, on a proper understanding of the Bible as God's Word and Nature as God's Creation. During this ...

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