Dictionaries and encyclopedias on this era proliferate. This volume aims “to provide both the beginner and the specialist with a single volume that presents a summary of current thought on the key protagonists, events and themes” in European history from c.400 to c.1500. The beginner will find about 1000 useful entries, strong on England and France, weak on Spain, Central and Eastern Europe; able on political but weak on social history (e.g., no entry on the family or on marriage).
The music book of the year. (Library Journal ) Excellent before, the Harvard Dictionary is better now, and remains the ideal piano-top reference for every musician, whether dilettante, serious amateur or working professional... informative and reliable holds its place at the top of its one-volume class. (The New York Times )
Easily the best one-volume reference source of its kind. (Los Angeles Times )
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. Drawing on the information contained in the acclaimed Dictionary of Natural History, the text has been fully revised for this new edition, with over 5500 clear and concise entries. The Dictionary of Botany will be invaluable to students, amateur botanists and naturalists, and everyone with an interest in plants and their environments.
This dictionary is offered to kazkakh students and teachers and all those who study the language on their own. The dictionary contains about 20000 most frequenrly used english words with translations and phonetical transcriptions given.
Данный словарь предназначен для учеников казахских школ и ВУЗов изучающих английский язык, а также для преподавателей и лиц самостаятельно изучающих язык. Словарь содержит около 20000 наиболее употребляемых английских слов с переводами и фонетической транскрипцией.