Libraries & Reference Works, WIT-ʿĀM
Looking to impress your friends with your expansive knowledge of historical events, philosophical concepts, obscure words, and more? We may be biased, but it seems fair enough to say that reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and textbooks have provided such a service for years (in some cases, hundreds or even thousands of years). You can look for them at your local public library, which likely stores books, manuscripts, journals, CDs, movies, and other sources of information and entertainment.
Libraries & Reference Works Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Wittig, Monique
Monique Wittig was a French avant-garde novelist and radical feminist whose works include unconventional narratives......
Wood, Mary Elizabeth
Mary Elizabeth Wood was an American librarian and missionary, whose efforts brought numerous libraries to China......
Woodworth, Robert S.
Robert S. Woodworth was an American psychologist who conducted major research on learning and developed a system......
Worcester, Joseph Emerson
Joseph Emerson Worcester was an American lexicographer whose dictionaries rivaled those of Noah Webster in popularity......
World Book Encyclopedia
World Book Encyclopedia, American encyclopaedia designed to meet the curriculum needs of elementary through high-school......
Yongle dadian
Yongle dadian, Chinese compilation that was the world’s largest known encyclopaedia. Compiled during the Ming dynasty......
Z-Library
Z-Library, online shadow library of academic and general interest books and journal articles available in electronic......
Zdarsky, Matthias
Matthias Zdarsky was a ski instructor who was considered the father of Alpine skiing and who was probably the first......
Zenodotus Of Ephesus
Zenodotus Of Ephesus was a Greek grammarian and the first superintendent (from c. 284 bc) of the library at Alexandria,......
ʿĀmilī, Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, al-
Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī was a theologian, mathematician, jurist, and astronomer who was a major......