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Writer's Resources
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Research Resources for Writers
The Art & Craft of Writing 
Please visit our bookstore for a complete list of titles on the art and craft of writing.
Browne and King, Self Editing for the Fiction Writer; Harper-Collins
Publishing, 1993.
Atlases
National Geographic Atlas of the World. National Geographic Society: Washington, D.C. (1981).
Rand McNally 1997 Road Atlas. Rand McNally: Skokie, Illinois.
(1997).
Dictionaries and Other Word Reference Books
Glazer, Stephen. Random House Word Menu. Random House: New York. (1992)
Illustrated Reverse Dictionary. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. Pleasantville, New York. (1990).
The St. Martin's Roget's Thesaurus (Revised and Modernized by Robert A. Dutch). St. Martin's Press. (May 1986).
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Merriam-Webster Inc., Publisher. Springfield, MA. (1983).
G. & C. Merriam-Webster, Co. Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged. Encyclopædia Britannica: Chicago. (1976).
Simpson, J. A., & Weiner, Edmund S. (Eds.) The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition). Oxford University Press (USA): New York. (1989).
Various language dictionaries
Encyclopedias
The New Encyclopedia Britannica (thirty volumes). Encyclopedia Britannica: Chicago. (1976).
Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. D. Van Nostrand Company,
Inc.: Princeton, NJ. (1968).
English Grammar and Style Manuals
Johnson, Edward D. The Handbook of Good English. Washington Square Press: New York. (1991).
The Chicago Manual of Style. University of Chicago Press (Trd); ; 14th edition (September 1993).
Strunk, Jr., William & White, E.B. The Elements of Style,
(Fourth Edition). Allyn & Bacon: New York. (2000).
Literary Reference Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by Justin John/Kaplan Bartlett. Little Brown & Company; 17th edition. (November 2002).
Benét's Third Edition Reader's Encyclopedia. Harper & Row, Publishers: New York. (1987).
Lass, Abraham, H. The Dictionary of Classical, Biblical, and Literary
Allusions, Fawcett Gold Medal: New York. (1995).
Miscellaneous Reference Books
The Timetables of History. Simon and Schuster: New York. (1979).
Hales, Dianne & Hales, Robert E., MD. Caring for the Mind. Bantam Books: New York. (1996).
Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. New American Library: New York. (1991).
Asimov, Isaac. The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation. Penguin: New York. (1992).
How Things Work. Biblographisches Institut and Simon & Schuster, Inc., American Edition, Edito-Service S.A., Publishers: Geneva. (from Dorling Kindersley. The Way Things Work)
Name your baby books
Research Guides
Metter, Ellen. The Writer's Ultimate Research Guide. Writer's Digest Books: Cincinnati. (1995).
McCormick, Mona. The New York Times Guide to Reference Materials.
Random House Value Pub; Revised edition (June 1988).
Visual Dictionaries
Bragonier, Jr. & David Fisher (Eds.). What's What: A Visual Glossary of Everyday Objects from Paper Clips to Passenger Ships. Ballantine Books: New York. (1981).
Ultimate Visual Dictionary. Dorling Kindersley: New York. (1994).
