General Dictionaries: English Language and American Culture

• The AMERICAN heritage college dictionary . - 4th ed . - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 . - xxviii, 1636 p. : illus. ; 26 cm.
• AMMER, Christine
  The American heritage dictionary of idioms / Christine Ammer . - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 2003 . - 473 p. ; 24 cm.
• BRYSON, Bill
  Troublesome words / Bill Bryson . - 3rd ed. - London : Penguin Books, 2002 . - 242 p . ; 20 cm.
• DICKSON, Paul
  Slang : the topical dictionary of Americanisms / Paul Dickson . - New York : Walker and Company , 2006 . - 418 p. ; 24 cm.
• MACCUTCHEON, Marc
  Roget’s superthesaurus / Marc McCutcheon . - Cincinnati : Writer’s Digest Books , 1998. - 662 p. ; 24 cm.
• THE OXFORD dictionary of phrase, saying, and quotation edited by Susan Ratcliffe . - 2nd ed . - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002 . - 696 p. ; 24 cm.
• THE OXFORD dictionary of American quotations selected and annotated by Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner
  - 2nd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 898 p. ; 25 cm.
• SPEARS, Richard A.
  McGraw-Hill’s dictionary of American idioms and phrasal verbs / Richard A. Spears . - New York : McGraw-Hill, 2005. - 1080 p. ; 25 cm.
• SPEARS, Richard A.
  McGraw-Hill’s dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions / Richard A. Spears . - 4th ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill, 2005. - 546 p. ; 24 cm.

Special Dictionaries:

• THE AMERICAN heritage Stedman's medical dictionary . - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 . - 923 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
• THE BLACKWELL encyclopedic dictionary of marketing : edited by Barbara R. Lewis, Dale Littler
  - Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2004 . - 274 p. ; 25 cm.
• BURDEN, Ernest
  Illustrated dictionary of architecture / Ernest Burden . - 2nd ed . - New York : McGraw-Hill, 2002 . - 389 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
• DICTIONARY of the social sciences : edited by Craig Calhoun
  - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002 . - 563 p. ; 26 cm
• FITCH, Thomas
  Dictionary of banking terms / Thomas P. Fitch . - 4th ed . - Hauppauge : Barron's, 2000 . - 525 p. ; 18 cm . - Barron's Business Guides
• MAYER, Ralph
  The Harper Collins dictionary of art terms and techniques / Ralph Mayer ; revised and edited by Steven Sheehan ; series editor Eugene Ehrlich . - 2nd ed . - New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 1991 . - 474 p. ; 20 cm.
• MERRIAM-Webster's biographical dictionary : your guide to the world's history makers . - Springfield : Merriam-Webster, 1995. - 1 170 p. ; 26 cm.
• MERRIAM-Webster's geographical dictionary . - 3rd ed . - Springfield : Merriam-Webster, 2001 . - 1361 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
• MORGENSON, Gretchen
  The New York Times dictionary of money and investing: the essential A to Z guide to the language of the new market . Gretchen Morgenson, Campbell R. Harvey . - New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2002 . - 282 p. ; 23 cm.
• THE NEW hacker's dictionary / compiled by Eric S. Raymond ; with illustrations by Guy L. Steele . - 3rd ed . - Cambridge : The MIT Press, 1996 . - 547 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
• PLANO, Jack C.
  The American political dictionary / Jack C. PLano, Milton Greenberg . - Belmont : Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2002 . - 758 p. ; 24 cm.
• RANDEL, Don Michael
  The new Harvard dictionary of music / Don Michael Randel . - Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001 . - 942 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
• THOMSON, David
  The new biographical dictionary of film / David Thomson . - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 . - 989 p. ; 23 cm.

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