Usually illustrated dictionaries address children, but THIS dictionary is intended for adults, including professionals in many fields of human activity. Over 28 000 illustrations will help you quickly understand how called any portion of an internal combustion engine, the element of Construction, the type of shoes or hair, mythological character, a tool surgeon, Suit card, the type of wiring, plant-and a lot more! Therefore it is useful not only for foreigners to learn English, but also for themselves "media" language.
Представляю вашему вниманию абсолютный раритет, Оксфордский Англо-Русский словарь на CD-ROM,вышедший в 1997 году и с тех пор ни разу не переиздававшийся. Он напоминает Lingvo, а может и является его прототипом.
(о достоинствах и недостатках этого словаря читайте внутри поста)
With 180,000 words and phrases and 290,000 translations, the "Oxford Russian Dictionary CD-ROM" is a comprehensive and authoritative bilingual Russian dictionary. Useful for students, translators and business people, it combines and updates the "Oxford English-Russian Dictionary" and the "Oxford Russian-English Dictionary". New material includes more than 5000 new words and phrases reflecting recent changes in both languages. On CD-ROM there are searching facilities, allowing you to find any given word quickly. You can also cross-reference, back-track your moves, find examples of correspondence in both languages, get help with phonetics, use wildcard searches and move between the two dictionaries easily.
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Abbreviations Испытываете трудности с сокращениями - эта книга для Вас. Хатчинсон не только расшифровывает аббревиатуры, но и объясняет их.
Here at last is a dictionary that not only gives the expanded form of abbreviations, but also explains them. Concentrating on currently used terms, there are clear explanations of abbreviations from fields such as computing, current affairs, medicine, education, warfare, and even newspaper advertisements.
An alphabetically arranged guide to the philosophy of science.
Philosophy of Science A-Z gives concise, accurate and illuminating accounts of key positions, concepts, arguments and figures in the philosophy of science. It aids understanding of current debates, explains their historical development and connects them with broader philosophical issues. It presupposes little prior knowledge of philosophy of science and is equally useful to the beginner, the more advanced student and the general reader. Readers will find in it illuminating explanations, careful analysis, relevant examples, open problems and, last but not least, precise arguments.
