Editorial notes and queries
Article Type: Editorial notes and queries From: Reference Reviews, Volume 25, Issue 3
Notes on key reviews in this Issue
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (RR 2011/121). Put together by renowned languages/dictionary/reference specialist David Crystal,this is the third edition of what is now one of the standard reference works in the field of language studies/linguistics. Replaces the second edition of 1997 (RR 1997/359).
Dictionary of Labour Biography. Volume XIII (RR 2011/111). Begun in the pre-online age, this series plods on with a thirteenth volume, the first for seven years (RR 2004/188), adding new biographies and, as with previous volumes, consolidating the index.
Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphical Novels (RR 2011/139). First reference to comprehensively treat comic books and graphic novels.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States (RR 2011/125). Two-volume set in the standard Greenwood Press style containing around 300 entries for authors published since about 1980.
Encyclopedia of French Film Directors (RR 2011/140). Scarecrow Press two-volume set providing entries for no less than 3,000 film directors. An authoritative source on French film that follows the same publisher’s more generalist Historical Dictionary of French Cinema (RR 2008/233).
Encyclopedia of Primary Education (RR 2011/113). New encyclopaedia from Routledge focussed on UK educational systems and practice.
Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (RR 2011/133). Third edition of this three-volume encyclopaedia within eight years (see RR2006/268 for review of the second edition), reflecting the rapid pace of change in genetics research.
Handbook of Pharmaceutical Natural Products (RR 2011/134). Specialist two-volume set from Wiley-VCH covering around 1,500 naturally occurring compounds.
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (RR 2011/104). Second edition of this offshoot from the main Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, recently published in a seventh edition (RR 2010/154).
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (RR 2011/145). One of the most significant print reference publications of 2010 in the finest traditions of Oxford University Press, the four volumes contain over 5,000 entries contributed by 800 scholars.
Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia (RR 2011/128). Like the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language also reviewed in this issue, now in its third edition (second RR 2002/336). Noted for its longer articles,this edition has 79 entries, 11 of which are said to be new, with a further 28 extensively revised.
Tony Chalcraft
