Reference books provide background information on a topic, such as definitions of terms, key figures and events, and well written overviews. They can be a useful starting point for any research project, because they fill in missing knowledge about the topic or provide you with the language of the discipline.
Selected books from our Reference collection:
The SAGE Handbook of Applied Memory
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
The Routledge companion to philosophy of psychology
Encyclopedia of the Mind
Oxford handbook of anxiety and related disorders
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior by 
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender"The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. "
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