Book Reviews

Library Journal

2006

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, October 1 [pdf, 481KB]
• Concise Oxford American Dictionary.(Concise Oxford American Thesaurus), September 1 [pdf, 483KB]
• The Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language, July 1
• The Facts on File Dictionary of Cliches: Meanings and Origins of Thousands of Terms and Expressions, June 15
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, May 1
• The World Atlas of Language Structures, January 1

2005

• The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention, May 15
• Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, July 1
• The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, February 15

2004

• The Uniting States: the Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States, December 1
• Webster's New Explorer Guide to English Usage, October 15
• Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals, September 15
• The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, June 15
• Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You, April 15
• Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, March 15
• The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases, March 15
• The Oxford Style Manual, February 15

2003

• Garner's Modern American Usage, November 15
• Webster's New Explorer Desk Encyclopedia, October 15
• Woe Is I: the Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, October 1
• Ologies and Isms: a Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings, September 15
• Encyclopedia of Literary Place, June 15
• The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (and 'The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation'), May 15
• Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, January

2002

• Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice, December
• Weird and Wonderful Words, November 15
• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, November 1
• Prison-ese: a Survivor's Guide to Speaking Prison Slang, September 15
• The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, September 1
• Southern Tongue: A Dictionary of Southern Expressions, June 1
• The History Highway 3.0: a Guide to Internet Resources, May 15
• Celebrities in Hell, April 1
• Dictionary of Artists' Models, January

2001

• 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction, December
• The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases, October 1
• The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, September 1
• Dictionary of Midwestern Literature. Vol. 1: The Authors, May 1
• World English: From Aloha to Zed, April 15
• What Makes Flamingos Pink? and Other Intriguing, Puzzling, and Downright Trivial Questions and Answers, February 15
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Desk Reference, January 1

2000

• Oxford Reverse Dictionary  October 1