
43a The History of the Book in Southeast Asia (1): The Islands Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
1 General introduction 2 Writing systems 3 Dating systems 4 Book forms 5 Printed books
1 General introduction
The region of

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)

ʿAbbāsid Caliphate Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
The rise of the ʿAbbāsid caliphate was the first fissure in Islamic culture; it would eventually result in the Shīʿī

ABDA (American-British-Dutch-Australian) command Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
covering Burma, Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines (with the north-western part of Australia included from 24 January

Abdülhamid II Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Abdülhamid II (1842–1918) was the thirty-fourth Ottoman sultan (r. 1876–1909). A profound political and economic crisis

Ablutions Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
A practice that consists of washing, which introduces the Muslim into the state of ritual purity (ṭuhr) and

Abolition Reference library
Sandra Jean Graham
The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2 ed.)
From the mid-1830s through the Civil War, abolitionists systematically deployed songs as spiritual weaponry in the fight to eradicate slavery

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)
a term used in sailing, meaning across the wind in relation to the bow of a sailing vessel. Thus, when a ship ...

Abraham Reference library
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Abraham or Avraham (at first Abram, or Ibrahim in Arabic) is a central figure in Hebrew mythology as developed in

Abramovich, Pinchas (1909) Reference library
Benezit Dictionary of Asian Artists
This artist studied at the academy in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania) in 1925; he emigrated to Palestine in 1929 and

Absent Information in Integrative Environmental and Health Risk Communication Reference library
Jari Lyytimäki and Timo Assmuth
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health and Risk Message Design and Processing
Introduction
The importance of relevant information and therefore implicitly also of absent information is crucial in risk communication. Various types

absorption rate Quick reference
A Dictionary of Accounting (5 ed.)
The rate or rates calculated in an *absorption costing system in advance of an accounting period for the purpose of charging the ...

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A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
The rate or rates calculated in an *absorption costing system in advance of an accounting period for the purpose of charging the ...

Accelerated Cost Recovery System (USA) Reference library
The Handbook of International Financial Terms
The depreciation schedules established for tax purposes by the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 and subsequently modified by the Tax

accordion book Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
Book format in which the individual leaves are conjoined sequentially to fold out, rather than the more conventional structure, in

Accounting and Bookkeeping Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Over the course of established human history, accounting information and business have had an interdependent relationship, in which each has

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A Dictionary of Accounting (5 ed.)

Acculturation And Intergroup Communication Reference library
Richard Y. Bourhis
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication
Introduction
We have room for one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that

Acid Rain and Acid Deposition Reference library
Encyclopedia of Global Change
Acid rain is a colloquial term that refers to acids and associated compounds in rainfall, cloud water, snow, and airborne

Acid Rain and Acid Deposition Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Global Change
Acid rain is a colloquial term that refers to acids and associated compounds in rainfall, cloud water, snow, and airborne