Collection: Reference

This latest edition of 'Roget's Thesaurus' includes all the latest buzzwords and phrases from 'broadband' to 'mockney'. One new feature is the inclusion of panels in the text that list vocabulary groups, from cocktails to phobias, and 'quotation boxes' show the derivation of popular phrases and i...

This new dictionary of current geological terms includes the latest terminology and gives over 7500 wide-ranging and concise definitions. The entries are clearly presented and fully cross-referenced.

From the Addled Parliament to the Zinoviev letter, this is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the history of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from Roman times right up to the present day.

This edition provides more than 135,000 valuations of collectable LPs, EPs, CDs, singles - seven and 12 inch - and Picture Discs. It covers not only UK releases but major European and American recordings as well.

Detailing linguistic abuse of all kinds, this guide explores a range of grammatical pitfalls and solecisms and offers constructive advice on the proper use of English. Newly updated, it covers recent neologisms and change of usage.

For anyone baffled by the abbreviations that abound in all aspects of the English language, this comprehensive dictionary covers specialist areas such as politics, commerce, science and computing.

This new edition includes over a quarter of a million words, phrases and expressions, ranging from the literary to slang, from the technical to the philosophical and the traditional to the new.

This dictionary should prove useful for those pursuing business courses and for those who need to get to grips with the jargon of the business and management world.

This dictionary contains over 2000 entries on the language of literature, literary criticism and literary theory, covering a wide range of categories including technical terms, genres, themes, personalities, objects and concepts.

With an emphasis on coverage of modern fields such as molecular biology, immunology, cytology, genetics and ecology, this dictionary describes the central concepts and processes that all would-be biologists need to understand.