Justice in the earth : laws of the ancient world
Of making many books : information overload
In the beginning was the word : the first dictionaries
A fraction of the total : counting reference books
The history of nature : science in antiquity
Easy as ABC : the rise (and fall?) of alphabetical order
Round earth's imagined corners : mapping the world
The invention of the codex
The circle of the sciences : ancient encyclopedias
The dictionary gets its day in court
Leechcraft : medieval medicine
Plagiarism : the crime of literary theft
New Worlds : cartography in an age of discovery
Tell me how you organize your books
Admirable artifice : computers before computers
To bring people together : societies
The infirmity of human nature : guides to error
Ignorance, pure ignorance : of omissions, ambiguities, and plain old blunders
Guarding the avenues of language : dictionaries in the eighteenth century
Of ghosts and Mountweazels
The way of faith : guidelines for believers
Who's who and what's what : making the cut
Erotic recreations : sex manuals
Collecting knowledge into the smallest areas : the great encyclopedias
Dictionary or encyclopedia?
Of redheads and Babus : dictionaries and empire
A small army : collaborative endeavors
Killing time : games and sports
Monuments of erudition : the great national dictionaries
Grecian glory, Roman grandeur : Victorian eyes on the ancient world
Lost projects : what might have been
Words telling their own stories : the historical dictionaries
An Alms-Basket of words : the reference book as salvation
Modern material media : staying healthy
Incomplete and abandoned projects
The foundation stone : library catalogs
The good life : the arts and high society
Some unlikely reference books
Presumed purity : science in a scientific age
At no extra cost! the business of reference books
Full and authoritative information : doctrine for the modern world
Unpersons : damnatio memoriae
Nothing special : books for browsers
The world's information : the encyclopedia dream.
