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Reference works contain organized factual information consulted for specific answers rather than continuous reading.
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Croce's Bibliografia Vichiana is a critical instrument tracing Giambattista Vico's reception across two centuries, not merely a list…
The Epistola ad Braulionem is a prefatory letter that Isidore of Seville addressed to his friend and fellow…
Isidore of Seville’s two-book treatise distinguishes similar Latin words and easily confused divine realities, expanding the grammatical genre…
The Sentences is a theological work by Isidore, bishop of Seville, compiled in the early seventh century, within…
The Class Pisces is a systematic natural-history treatise on fishes, arranged by Baron Georges Cuvier with supplementary additions…
This work serves as a meticulously ordered key to Cuvier's lectures, comprising an alphabetical and a systematic index…
New Jersey landlord-tenant law is among the most tenant-protective in the United States, yet many tenants remain unaware…
The editor presents the Everywoman's Almanac as a living document intended to accompany women through the year with…
The book is dedicated to Ostwald's wife, Helene, 'in gratitude for loyal help,' a personal touch that humanizes…
Comparative Color Tables is a technical reference work correlating Ridgway's color standards with Ostwald's own color order system.
A Catalogue of Books is a short printed pamphlet rather than a narrative or argumentative work.
Joseph Priestley’s book explains a large chronological chart that plots individual lives as lines to show who was…
The book functions as a trade catalog, listing and describing various items of magical apparatus available for purchase.
The scrapbook serves as a documentary record of the magic and spiritualist worlds during Houdini's era.
Magical Rope Ties and Escapes is a technical handbook first published in 1921, written by Harry Houdini, the…
