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Ready reckoner – a printed book or table containing pre-calculated values; Thematic catalogue – an index used to identify musical compositions through the citation of the opening notes; Textbook – a reference work containing information about a subject; Thesaurus – a reference work for finding synonyms and sometimes antonyms of words
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Pages in category "Lists of reference books" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Items within a reference collection may include books, journals, manuscripts, samples, artifacts, and other primary and secondary sources of information. A reference collection may also include an assortment of damaged or manipulated items, fakes and forgeries, or items to be used for education and public outreach. [4]
Pocket Ref is a general-purpose pocket-sized reference book composed of various tips, tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions, compiled by Thomas J. Glover. [1] It is published by Sequoia Publishing, and is currently in its fourth edition at 864 pages in length, released in late 2010.
Oxford University Press reference books (2 C, 36 P) P. Reference works in the public domain (69 P) Q. Books of quotations (1 C, 27 P) R. Reference publishers (2 C, 17 P)
Indexes are commonly provided in many types of reference work. Updated editions are published as needed, in some cases annually. In comparison, a reference book or reference-only book in a library is one that may only be used in the library and not borrowed from the library. Many such books are reference works (in the first sense) which are ...
English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or ...