Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of over 11,000 words related to all branches of psychology and related disciplines, and includes illustrations, abbreviations and symbols, and word origins and derivations.
Contains ... alphabetically-arranged entries providing information on various aspects of philosophy and neighboring disciplines, including over 400 biographies and a chronology of philosophical events, with coverage of Western, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and Jewish thought.
Contains over six thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of words related to the Earth sciences, covering climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that define over eight thousand words related to the world's major religions, with coverage of movements, sects and cults, significant men and women, ethics, rites, music, and other topics.
Contains nine thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of terms related to biology, chemistry, physics, the earth sciences, and astronomy; and includes short biographies of leading scientists, chronologies of specific scientific subjects, and full-page illustrated features.
Defines one thousand terms in the study of literature in the areas of traditional drama, rhetoric, and literary schools, theory, and history, with pronunciation guides for some words, entries in languages other than English, and cross-references.
Explains in detail foreign words and phrases that are regularly encountered in American and British English. Entries cover the date of each word's introduction into English, language of origin, definition, pronunciation, and usage and background.
