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A bibliographical guide to Old Frisian studies

A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's Picture Books

(More Info)	ABC-CLIO World History Companion to Utopian Movements
Provides insight into utopian thought and its impact on all areas of life. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Accountants' Handbook
The stated purpose of the 2 volume handbook is "to provide in a single reference source answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting..." Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Accounting Glossary and Acronyms
Alphabetical entries cover accounting, auditing, taxation, finance, business law, and more. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language
The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language offers a survey of this far-ranging field and research as it applies to Japanese. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	African Development Indicators
The most detailed collection of development data on Africa in one volume. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
A five-volume reference set which includes more than three thousand articles, with a focus on political, social, and cultural history. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Almanac of American Education
Contains historical and current data, detailed analysis, and useful graphs that answer questions about education in the United States. Helps the reader understand and compare the quality of education at the national, regional, state, and county levels. Read the full annotation

AMA Style Guide for Business Writing

(More Info)	America Votes
A handbook of contemporary American election statistics by county within states, showing results for President, Governor, and Congress. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	American Big Business Directory
Includes 200,000 top American businesses. Also on CD-ROM. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	American Decades
Each volume of American Decades concentrates on the social aspects of a ten-year period in American history. Read the full annotation

American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants

(More Info)	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
An authoritative work that includes keys to the generic level, and descriptions of orders, families, and some subfamilies, as well as a number of representative species. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	American Musical Traditions
A five-volume work covering six topic areas of folk music: Native American, African American, British Isles, European American, Latino American, and Asian American. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit organization of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Animal
A visual guide to habitats, the animal kingdom, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Annotated Bibliography of Church Music
The purpose and scope of this bibliography is to survey the literature concerning church music, primarily in publications from 1980 to the present. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Annual Survey of Manufactures
Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries (up to 6-digit NAICS codes); Value of Product Shipments; Geographic Area Statistics. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Northeastern North America
Useful handbook that provides information about aquatic and wetland plants in the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River valley. Read the full annotation

Art & Architecture Source (EBSCO)

(More Info)	Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
The AAT is one of three Getty Vocabulary Databases. It contains more than 125,000 terms covering fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Art History Resources on the Web
Covers the history of Western and non-Western art. Recommends research resources and has a "Museums and Galleries" section arranged by country. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Artchive
Over 2000 images on 200 world artists and their works. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Artcyclopedia: the Fine Arts Search Engine
A digital image directory which indexes over 8,000 famous painters, ssculptors, and photographers at art museum sites and image archives worldwide. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	artdaily.com
The first newspaper on the Internet devoted to art. Dates from 1996. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
Among its more than 3,600 terms covering all aspects of art, ArtLex provides basic definitions of art terms, numerous illustrations, quotations, and pronunciation notes, and links to other Web resources. The site defines more than 1,700,000 words found in more than 200 dictionaries and glossaries. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	ArtNews Online
"ARTnewsletter is a timely, topical, biweekly report on the art market." Read the full annotation

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

(More Info)	ArtsJournal
ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of arts and cultural news and features. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications. Read the full annotation

Asian Historical Dictionaries

(More Info)	AskART
Dedicated to the creation and maintenance of the world's most comprehensive, centralized database about American artists. Contains detailed information on nearly 30,000 American artists. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Atlas of Classical Archaeology
Arranged by country, moving from west to east. Each chapter has an overview of a particular site, with map, site plan, photos, and bibliography. Read the full annotation

Atlas of Immunology

Atlas of North American English

(More Info)	Atlas of the Classical World
Depicts the life and cultures of the classical world with maps and illustrations with textual comment. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Atlas of World Art
Spans the centuries from the time of hunters and gatherers (40-50,000 B.C.) to the present day. Read the full annotation

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