Powells Blog has a new entry about favorite reference books. I had never heard of some of these, but they sound fascinating. Books to get lost in...
Here are a couple of the books mentioned: (with links to iBistro)
The Word Menu:
Really, this book is indispensible. I send it to people so often that I buy it in bulk. It's like a giant thesaurus of nouns — what other book will give you three pages of all the different names for kinds of underwear? A marvellous book for anyone who wants to call things by the right names.The Timetables of History:
This book has saved me from the ignominy of being the "B-Minus Time Traveler" many a time. Not sure if two people were contemporaneous, or if Lincoln could have ever seen an Impressionist painting? This is the the place to begin puzzling it out.
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