| There were lots of bookshelves filled with books, encyclopedias and dictionaries. |
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| The easy accessibility of information on the Internet has made encyclopedias far less useful. |
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| There are people who are walking encyclopedias, but they make a mess of their lives. |
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| There were also some dictionaries, encyclopedias and travel books, so I could say that their library was complete. |
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| Some of my favorite books are old, gorgeously illustrated encyclopedias and atlases. |
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| She has long been considered the authority on Walker's life and has been a contributor to books, encyclopedias and articles about Walker. |
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| Students can also access electronic multimedia encyclopedias, library references, and online publications. |
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| It's very useful indeed to have friends who are like walking encyclopedias. |
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| Many other sourcebooks, handbooks, manuals, bibliographies, and topical encyclopedias, both general and specific, are available. |
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| In addition to leveling churches, houses, and graveyards, ethnic cleansers burn books, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. |
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| Exploring encyclopedias and resource books in both languages can enhance children's construction of new concepts. |
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| So what happens to those poor saps who write encyclopedias for a living? |
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| They were compiled in medieval encyclopedias and books of wonders, and extended by the accounts provided by new chronicles or traveller's reports. |
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| She worked in a shoe factory, sold encyclopedias and was sacked from a dress shop for reading a book in a changing room. |
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| Be it the vacuum cleaner I mentioned earlier, encyclopedias or cookware, people will have to comply and work within the legislation. |
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| Science and technology encyclopedias are another good source when trying to structure scientific and technological subject fields or subfields. |
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| Well we learned how to use encyclopedias and almanacs and handbooks. |
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| The situation now, on the other hand, is that we are getting calls regularly, every day, to sell us vacuum cleaners, encyclopedias, etc. |
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| The major e-library sites will offer on-line reference tools like encyclopedias and dictionaries along with thousands of books and journal articles. |
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| He has published a number of articles in books, film festival encyclopedias and catalogues. |
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| The company's encyclopedias and other products can be found in many media, from the Internet to wireless devices to books. |
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| A second issue to consider is that handbooks and encyclopedias are usually redone about every five to ten years. |
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| During the Renaissance, the creation of printing allowed a wider diffusion of encyclopedias and every scholar could have his or her own copy. |
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| I got a cold call in the middle of dinner from someone trying to sell encyclopedias. |
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| During the Renaissance, middle classes had more time to read and encyclopedias helped them to learn more. |
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| When this worked, capital would rise and there would be a steady income for encyclopedias. |
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| In the United States, the 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of several large popular encyclopedias, often sold on installment plans. |
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| The second half of the 20th century also saw the proliferation of specialized encyclopedias that compiled topics in specific fields. |
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| Financial, commercial, legal, and intellectual factors changed the size of encyclopedias. |
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| A strict dichotomy between dictionaries and encyclopedias is arguably untenable. For this reason, a cline of encyclopedicity can be proposed. |
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| There was little original research, but many lexicons, anthologies, encyclopedias, and commentaries. |
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| As the 18th century progressed, the content of encyclopedias also changed according to readers' tastes. |
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| For users from outside Canada, one's best available sources for information on Canada are probably major atlases, encyclopedias, almanacs, and, of course, the Web. |
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| Only in works of reference atlases, dictionaries, almanacs, encyclopedias and the like do CD-ROMs now seem to represent a serious challenge to the predominance of books. |
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| As the money rolls in, it no longer has to rely on free material from users, and can buy up lots of exclusive content, from encyclopedias to videos, which it blocks rival search engines from accessing. |
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| Before taking up journalism, he was briefly jailed for selling encyclopedias without a licence. In this rather feckless life, environmentalism became an all-absorbing cause. |
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| Publishers can be contacted directly by traditional mail, electronic mail, telephone or fax for a current and past listings of educational research handbooks and specialized encyclopedias. |
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| In other words, this memory chip can store 20,000 books worth of information, but the nucleus that has the same size as the memory chip would be able to store 100 billion encyclopedias. |
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| The era of encyclopedias in the form of partworks had begun. |
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| We should not overlook the white flag decorated with fleurs-de-lis, which is mentioned by so many history books as the essence of the Ancien Régime, and which often appears in encyclopedias. |
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| There are, to be sure, a few books on the subject, and the larger encyclopedias have articles on logic describing the various fallacies and other intellectual tools. |
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| Besides encyclopedias and directories there are many other reference books which are storehouses of information in which items may be found with a minimum of trouble. |
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| Have students develop definitions of the term and period on their cards, using art history books, encyclopedias, etc. to determine what characterizes art of that period. |
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| The software offers reference information in real time, including content from sources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and thesauri. |
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| It was the goal of universal encyclopedias to record all human knowledge in a comprehensive reference work. |
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| There are also fake entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, known as nihilartikels, which serve the same purpose. |
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| Tertiary sources might include encyclopedias and similar works intended for broad public consumption or academic libraries. |
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| In the encyclopedias its horn was said to have the power to render poisoned water potable and to heal sickness. |
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| There was a rich variety of historical literature compiled by scholars, as well as encyclopedias and geographical works. |
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| Thus encyclopedias may contain material that is also found in dictionaries, and vice versa. |
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| Unlike commercial online encyclopedias such as Britannica Online, which are written by experts, Wikipedia is collaboratively edited by volunteers. |
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| There are several much smaller, usually more specialized, encyclopedias on various themes, sometimes dedicated to a specific geographic region or time period. |
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| Also, publishers could not afford all the resources by themselves, so multiple publishers would come together with their resources to create better encyclopedias. |
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| Generally speaking, dictionaries provide linguistic information about words themselves, while encyclopedias focus more on the thing for which those words stand. |
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| There are some broad differences between encyclopedias and dictionaries. |
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| As such, rather than being used as sources of authoritative statements of law, legal encyclopedias are now more often used as tools for finding relevant case law. |
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| While legal encyclopedias like CJS were at one time heavily used by the courts, the growth of statutory and regulatory governance has had the effect of eroding this reliance. |
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| It has now been displaced by the American National Biography as well as numerous smaller historical encyclopedias that give thorough coverage to Great Persons. |
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| Along with growth in numbers, dictionaries and encyclopedias also grew in length, often having multiple print runs that sometimes included in supplemented editions. |
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