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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical SlangDrawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.
 
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Standard & Poor's Dictionary of Financial Terms
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Standard & Poor's Dictionary of Financial TermsStreamlined, straightforward, and simple to read guides from Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press.
The easiest way to get a grip on personal finance, investing, and retirement.
From the world's leading financial analysts and investor education specialists comes an invaluable foundation of knowledge for every kind of investment you want to make.
These guides, a collaboration between Standard & Poor's and Lightbulb Press, use clear language and informative graphics to demystify financial topics. The books make it easy for you to navigate the financial markets and understand the basics of investing and personal finance.
Filled with clear, jargon-free definitions of important financial terms, this handy reference gives you the language you need to navigate the world of investing and finance. It also includes common acronyms and extended definitions of more sophisticated investing concepts.
 
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Non-Sexist Language
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Usage of recently fashionable "politicaly correct" language. Resource text compiled into Windows help format from University College Cork web site where they say, quote,"University College Cork has a policy of Equality of Opportunity and is committed to working towards creating a work and study environment which is free of sexism and sexual harassment.   The use of non-sexist, gender-neutral language is an essential part of this policy".
 
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Dictionary of Biomedical Sciences
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Dictionary of Biomedical SciencesWhy write a dictionary of biomedical sciences? After all, several medical and science dictionaries have been published in the lastfew years. To answer that question it is first necessary to consider what is meant by ‘biomedical science’. Biomedical science involves and relates biological, medical and physical science. Biomedical scientists must be familiar with a great number of technical terms, many of which are from disciplines other than their own speciality, including anatomy, audiology, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computing science, cytology, genetics, haematology, histology, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, molecular biology, microscopy, mycology, parasitology, pharmacology, physics, physiology, radiology, statistics, virology, and so on. So the answer to the initial question is that the dictionaries published to date do not provide the mix of terminology within a single volume that is required of biomedical scientists and none have had the aims of the present dictionary.
 
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Pocket Wikipedia: A free software
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Pocket Wikipedia: A free software
 
Believe it or not! Wikipedia lovers can use Wikipedia without Internet connection!
     
This package includes a selection of Wikipedia subjects that you will have on your PC. It's perfect

Pocket Wikipedia it's a hand-checked selection from Wikipedia which is about the size of a fifteen volume encyclopaedia (24,000 images and 14 million words). You can search for a specific keyword or choose a random subject to improve your knowledge.
 
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