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Blackwell Reference Online includes a huge range of indispensable reference works from the following subject areas:

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Blackwell Reference Online is:

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Blackwell Reference Online is a new vast online library giving instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship across the humanities and social sciences. With more than +426 volumes to be published in Blackwell Reference Online, it is the largest academic reference collection available online and includes:

  1. the critically-acclaimed Blackwell Companions and Handbooks
  2. major reference works such as the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management and the Companion to Syntax
  3. a whole host of other valuable reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions.

With unbeatable functionality, undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers, and researchers will find Blackwell Reference Online an invaluable learning and teaching resource.



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