From Chaucer to Chatwin, this guide presents characters from novels, plays and poems in vivid summaries. It contains more than 6,500 detailed entries, and is fully cross-referenced

More than 1500 concise and colourful entries that give details on festivals, rites of passage, plant and herblore and theories about folklore are included in this comprehensive dictionary.

Unrivalled coverage of modern scientific terms

Features more than 250,000 entries and 400,000 translations; a bilingual atlas; coverage of Canadian, Belgian, and Swiss French; sidebars on French life and culture; and models for letters, faxes, and e-mails.

This dictionary of writers, from the earliest Arabic poets to the bestselling authors of the present day, includes over 6,000 concise and pithy biographies

Introduces the terms and divisions of both Western and Eastern astrology, with step-by-step instructions for calculating horoscopes.

Profiles winemaking regions around the globe, from Europe and the Americas to Africa and the Far East, offering information on grapes, vineyards, and vintages, and explaining how to buy, choose, store, serve, and taste wine.