Thursday, October 19, 2006

Recent dictionaries in the reference collection

Sometimes Webster's just isn't enough, especially when you're jumping into a discourse that's entirely new to you. Stop by the reference collection and take a look at these new dictionaries:

B2430 .D454 2005
Parr, Adrian, ed. The Deleuze dictionary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

You're not alone in struggling with Deleuze! This companion text features signed entries for key terms in Deleuze's work, with 'connectives' to related terms and concepts.

B41 .D46 2006
Protevi, John, ed. A dictionary of continental philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Attempting to cover all key figures, movements, and concepts in continental philosophy, this dictionary is meant to assist beginning philosophers as well as humanities students encountering these ideas across the curriculum.

HV2475 .G35 2005
Valli, Clayton, ed. The Gallaudet dictionary of American Sign Language. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.

This dictionary contains more than 3,000 of the most commonly-used signs in ASL, while a companion DVD features a live-action clip of every sign in the dictionary to aid beginners.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hooray!

Great additions -- ASL is getting popular.

2:33 PM  

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