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:
Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education
Globalization
The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis
The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods
Out-of-School Learning"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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