Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day.

Newly updated and expanded, The Water Dictionary provides standardized definitions for thousands of water- and wastewater-related words, phrases, acronyms, chemicals, and microorganisms. It is an essential desk reference for all water utility employees, water resources professionals, engineers, chemists, microbiologists, teachers, and students.

This quick reference offers a broad spectrum of nearly 4,000 industry terms and phrases. Terms used in generation, transmission, and distribution can be found here, along with common business and billing language and terms related to the major governmental and industry regulations. Environmental terms and phrases relevant to the electric power industry are also included. As a convenience, additional reference material is located in the back of this volume, including an assortment of conversion tables, a table of the chemical elements and their associated symbols and weights, and a contact list of prominent industry organizations.

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists is an invaluable tool for all learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. The dictionary is based on data from a 385-million-word corpus