List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge

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This is a list of encyclopedias sorted by branch of knowledge. For other sorting criteria, see List of encyclopedias.

Contents

[edit] General encyclopedia

[edit] Printed works

[edit] English language

[edit] Spanish language

  • Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa
  • Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano de Literatura, Ciencias y Artes: Barcelona, Montaner y Simón,1887-1899, reprints and appendices up to 1910. Wonderful and very readable articles, many of them written by known Spanish scholars of the day. Reprinted by the London editor Walter M. Jackson (C. H. Simonds Company, Impresores, Boston, Estados Unidos de Norte América). See reference at http://www.filosofia.org/enc/eha/eha.htm
  • Enciclopedia Encarta
  • Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana; the biggest encyclopedia of its time. Also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe
  • Enciclopedia Labor
  • Enciclopedia Libre Universal also known as Enciclopedia Libre
  • Enciclopedia Salvat
  • Gran enciclopedia planeta, 20 volumes, DVD and on-line encyclopedia, 2004. Geared for adults, and published by the same people who publish the Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • Britannica Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada, 20 volumes; heavily illustrated. Also published by the Encyclopedia Britannica, but designed for students 10-17 years of age.
  • Nueva enciclopedia Durvan
  • Nueva enciclopedia cumbre, published by Grolier in 14 volumes and available online.

[edit] Other languages

[edit] On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or the Internet

[edit] Website only

[edit] Specialized encyclopedias

[edit] National, regional, ethnic or cultural

[edit] African

  • Encyclopedia Zimbabwe

[edit] American

[edit] Australian

  • The Australian Encyclopedia (1926) - 1926
  • The Australian Encyclopedia (1958) - 1958
  • Encyclopaedia of Australia - 1968
  • Encyclopedia of Melbourne Sept 2005. Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain. 864 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-84234-1 - Online version

[edit] Austrian

[edit] Belarusian

  • Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia in 12 volumes (1969-1974)
  • Encyclopedia of Literature and Art of Belarus in 5 volumes
  • Encyclopedia of Ethnography of Belarus in 1 volume
  • Encyclopedia of History of Belarus in 6 volumes
  • Belarusian Encyclopedia in 18 volumes
  • Encyclopedia of Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1 volume so far

[edit] Canadian

  • Canada: An Encyclopedia of the Country - (1898-1900)
  • Canada and its Province - (1913-1917)
  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - (1985 and 1988)
  • Encyclopedia Canadiana - (1957)
  • The Encyclopedia of Canada - (1935-1937)
  • Encyclopedia of Music in Canada - (1981 and 1992)
  • The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada - (1989)

[edit] Croatian

[edit] Iranian

[edit] London

[edit] Malaysian

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Poland

  • Encyklopedia Polski (translation: Encyclopedia of Poland).
  • Encyklopedia powszechna PWN (translation: PWN Universal Encyclopedia).

[edit] Slovenian

[edit] South Asian

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives: A concise encyclopedia on the Indian subcontinent.
  • Banglapedia: The national encyclopedia of Bangladesh published by the Bangladesh Asiatic Society.

[edit] Subject

[edit] Art

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Environmental Science

  • Encyclopedia of Hydrological Science John Wiley and Sons [www.wiley.co.uk/ehs]
  • Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) (an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society)

[edit] Fiction (or fictional)

[edit] History and biography

[edit] Judaism

[edit] Law

[edit] Literature

[edit] Mathematics

[edit] Medicine

[edit] Music

  • Enciclopedia della musica, 2001-2005, edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, in 5 volumes. Collection of in-depth essays rather than brief, dictionary-like entries.

[edit] Philosophy

  • The Book of Healing, by Avicenna.
  • The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Paul Edwards.
  • Encyclopédie philosophique universelle, published by Presses Universitaires de France.

[edit] Religion (other)

[edit] Science

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space, 1990 ISBN 0-521-36426-4
  • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: also comes in a one-volume edition.
  • Encyclopedia Astronautica: a reference website maintained by space-travel enthusiast Mark Wade
  • Grolier Popular Science
  • Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Wiley, 26 volumes.
  • Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry. Wiley, 1997, 5 volumes.
  • Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry. Wiley, 2005 (2nd ed), 10 volumes.
  • Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry. Knovel, 2001, 3 volumes.
  • Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Wiley, 40 volumes.
  • Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry. Elsevier, 2004.
  • Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry. Dekker.
  • Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. Wiley, 2000, 15 volumes.
  • Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing. Dekker, 1976, 5 volumes.

[edit] Sports

  • The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball, 10th Edition, 1996 ISBN 0-02-861435-6
  • Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, 2004, by John Thorn et al
  • Total Tennis, The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, 2003, by Bud Collins
  • The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
  • The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004, 2004, by David Neft et al
  • L'Encyclopédie des sports. Plus de 3000 sports et jeux du monde entier, 2005, Grund
  • World Sports Encyclopedia, 2003, Atena/MBI

[edit] Other

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