"Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition, presents the very best a college dictionary can offer, with all the user-friendly qualities that have distinguished the Webster's New World name for decades. Webster's New World College Dictionary is a favorite of newsrooms and copyeditors nationwide, and it is the official dictionary of The Associated Press Stylebook.This dictionary features a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym...

Make sense of complex medical terms with this comprehensive reference! Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 11th Edition includes more than 56,000 authoritative definitions along with 2,450 illustrations - that's twice the number of images found in other medical dictionaries. Appendixes in the book and online make it easy to look up frequently used information, and an enhanced eBook version includes animations, audio pronunciations, and more. Helping you communicate...

"Pairing words and pictures, the 6-Language Visual Dictionary offers you an effecient and fun way to learn and memorize thousands of terms common in six widely spoken European languages." -- Back cover

Fully revised, with many new entries and biographies of key scientists, this work covers all the commonly encountered terms and concepts in physics, as well as key terms from maths, astrophysics and physical chemistry. It sees expansion to the areas of cosmology, astrophysics, condensed matter, quantum technology, and nanotechnology, with 125 new entries including, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, kilonova, leptoquark, and muscovium.

"Over 35,000 entries-including 110 new words-and more than 3,000 full-color illustrations specially created by DK's celebrated design team and Merriam-Webster's renowned language experts."--Page 4 of cover.

From historical figures and Greek mythology to literary references and pop-culture icons, From Ace to Zowie has hand-picked the 322 names that will become the trendiest monikers on the playground in the years ahead.

"This Who's Who gives an up-to-date biographical account of every pope in history - from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI - in chronological order. It also covers their irregularly elected rivals, the 'antipopes', and an appendix discusses the tradition that there has been a female pope." "Each entry covers family, social background, pre-papal career, activities in office, and includes further reading."--Jacket.

Labeled pictures provide a wide range of everyday terms in the English and Ukrainian languages.

"The Penguin Dictionary of Biology defines some 6,000 terms relating to this expanding subject - from amino acids, bacteria and the cell cycle to X-ray diffraction, Y chromosome and zygotes. Long established as the definitive single-volume source, the dictionary has now been extensively updated for its eleventh edition. With expanded encyclopedic entries to explain the most crucial concepts, is also explores the very latest discoveries and developments."...

Labelled illustrations provide the English and Japanese words for foods, animals, buildings, workers, and other familiar topics, along with Japanese pronunciations.