Best Research Reference Books
Marking the 100th anniversary of National Geographic cartography, this prestigious reference is the essential guide to understanding today's interconnected world. A portion of all National Geographic proceeds is used to fund exploration, conservation, and education through ongoing contributions to the work of the National Geographic Society.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I previously bought the National Geographic "Family Reference Atlas of the World", which was big enough to impress people that you have a big atlas on the coffee table, but not big enough to actually FIND any historical locations you are interested in."
"This was a gift, and I am thrilled how fabulous this NG Atlas actually is."
"I have compared, the map for Suriname is even less detailed than my micro pocket atlas which costs only 0.8 USD."
"I picked this as a Christmas gift for my nieces and nephews."
"I could not be more pleased!"
"Absolutely stunning book!"
"I bought this book for my mom and she loves it."
Part II provides an overview of citation practices with detailed information on the two main scholarly citation styles (notes-bibliography and author-date), an array of source types with contemporary examples, and detailed guidance on citing online resources. "In addition to featuring new templates for citing e-books, websites, blogs, social networks, discussion groups, online videos, and podcasts, the eighth edition offers new general advice to help students make good decisions about what information to include for online sources that may not have all the traditional elements useful in citing a print source.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This style makes more sense than a Works Cited list as the Notes-Bibliography satisfies the ultra-inquisitive reader who wants to know who said what, aaaand right naough!"
"A must have for any History Major, such as myself."
"Great Product at a great Price !"
"great for papers, need it a lot."
"love it alot, think its great."
"This book has been very helpful with formatting my bibliography, footnotes, title page, charts, and many other parts of my class project."
"Just as described...fast shipment!"
"Thorough and helpful for any student."
Using the massive expansion in online databases as well as old-fashioned gumshoe archival digging, O’Toole provides a fascinating study of our modern abilities to find and correct misinformation. “The book grew out of a wonderful website O’Toole has been conducting since 2010…[O’Toole] brings mad research skills and dogged determination to tracking down the real stories behind famous quotations.” — The Chronicle of Higher Education. Famous names whom we discover to be not quite as pithy or witty as we thought include Ms Marilyn Monroe, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and (probably one of the most misquoted men ever), Mr Mark Twain.” — Mr. Porter. This entertaining book is a must for librarians, professors, journalists, and others who cherish accurate, properly attributed information.” —David H. Rothman, editor-publisher of TeleRead.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Rarely do I see a non-fiction book as a Kindle First selection, even more rarely is it one that actually looks interesting to me."
"Heck, the only reason I don't have a tattoo right now is I finally settled on the exact one I wanted, a quote I'd seen attributed time and again to Robert Frost that would have been perfect. I was unable to find any verifiable source, other than collections of internet quotes. This reads like (heck, it might even be , but I'm so worn out from slogging through the whole thing to want to do any research of my own right now) a series of blog posts. It was all well researched and sources were perfectly cited, but... *yawn* It just was not a writing style that worked in book length for me. I'd probably have enjoyed these from time to time as a single article or blog post, but to read them all back-to-back (er, back-to-front if we're going to be technical) just became tedious."
"The obscure references got tedious quickly."
"Garson O'Toole breaks down the origins of the statement, the possible places in publication and rhetorical execution where the quote became changed or reattributed, and then presents the findings in a quick and perfectly referenced minimalist format."
"The textbook and classroom poster companies all need copies of this book."
"Garson O'Toole begins by telling us how e-books developed over time, and how it is possible to trace back through the extensive data bases of books and speeches, magazines and reviews available today to discover exactly who - and when - a quote was first created."
Best Writing Reference
When you need advice on how to present information, including text, data, and graphics, for publication in any type of format--such as college and university papers, professional journals, presentations for colleagues, and online publication--you will find the advice you're looking for in the "Publication Manual."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The APA could have done a better job stressing the fact that the work done behind an article needs to important and original, and the form of the writing needs to reflect that,"
"I bought this because I needed to write Psychology papers in APA format, and it has helped."
"This book is a must for any student whose school requires APA Format 6th edition."
"Despite keeping this book on top of my desk where it is always handy for reference, I find that it rarely answers the questions that I ask of it."
"I don't know if I can trust this copy of my APA book that I received from NEWBOOKSWORLD to reference for my papers now."
"For example, this book was useless for citing a TED Talks video or a class syllabus."
"Worst of all, the Kindle edition does not work with Kindle's online reader (read.amazon.com), which is where most people using this book would probably use the Kindle edition."
"There are rub marks and dents all over the cover, there is a gouge mark along all of the pages that you can see when the book is closed, and the inside of the cover (where the blank white page is glued the the inside of the cover) looks like a first grader used a bottle of Elmer's glue to attach it. There is literally nothing professional looking about this book, from the dust cover to the page material."
Best Book Publishing Reference
This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf. It offers updated guidelines on electronic workflows and publication formats, tools for PDF annotation and citation management, web accessibility standards, and effective use of metadata, abstracts, and keywords. The citation chapters reflect the ever-expanding universe of electronic sources—including social media posts and comments, private messages, and app content—and also offer updated guidelines on such issues as DOIs, time stamps, and e-book locators. ( Washington Post ). “This manual stands as an indispensable and thoughtfully constructed English language and style resource for those compelled, by enthusiasm or responsibility, to attend to the minutiae of written expression.”. ( Publishers Weekly ). “As it incorporates contemporary examples (e.g., NOOK, Lady Gaga), CMS, as expected, offers sensible, clear advice on matters great and small for authors’ guidance—such as the treatment of names of ships and spaceships, use of the en dash, how to edit electronic manuscripts, and the ins and outs of documenting and citing works of many kinds.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought CMOS 17 primarily for two reasons: (1) my CMOS 16 was battered and torn, beaten down by years of abuse and page-cornering; (2) I like to keep up with the changes, even if Bowie is dead. The biggest changes in content in CMOS 17, compared with CMOS 16, are an added subsection on syntax and expansion of the discussions of copyright and permissions. Another change one may not notice without CMOS 16 in hand, unless one happens to be a publisher/typographer, is with fonts. If so, I recommend GARNER'S MODERN ENGLISH USAGE by Bryan Garner (still weighty and not quite as comprehensive, but a bit more entertaining—and Garner is the contributor of the Usage chapter in CMOS, so the information in his book is consistent with that provided in CMOS) and EDITOR-PROOF YOUR WRITING by Don McNair (nice and short but absolutely loaded with information that can make a subpar writer an above-average one—maybe). Given the number of discordant reviews of his book by obviously failed writers (and because I've read it cover to cover and can attest to its quality), I'd say McNair has a live one."
"Even so, this is a very good resource to clarify some rules of usage that we can forget or we never learned in school. It would be lovely if folks who bought a copy of this pricey tome also got access to more examples at the CMOS site and ongoing notifications of revisions of rules before the next edition released. Some changes to hyphenation-- head hunting becomes head-hunting; e-mail is now email--and some differences in certain uses of commas are also included in the new edition."
"Briefly, I like the organization and I love the index--a real old-fashioned index done by a professional indexer that means if it's in the book you can find it However, I simply haven't used it was much as I though I would."
"What's to like or not like: it's a guide that one needs for one's professional life."
"The Chicago Manual of Style is the gold standard."
"The best style manual in print."
"The gold standard of English usage."
"Sure, Turabian distills this book (and the sin of the latest Turabian is that in a misguided attempt to appeal to more people, they've added a parenthetical reference system to the footnote system she popularized), but sometimes you must turn to the Chicago for more information."