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Review title: belongs near an elbow
Product review: Edited by two British academics, this superb reference tool has quickly found pride of place near my elbow at the location where I think and write. Smallish but crystal-clear fontwork allows hundreds of concise, well-edited articles to fill up just over six hundred pages in complement with a rather full bibliography.An intense cross-referencing system leads the reader productively from article to related article, allowing for either a quick dip into the material or an extended foray.I withhold the fifth star in this review not because of any intrinsic defect in the book but rather because events since 1999 make an update almost obligatory.Although intended as a single-consult reference dictionary, this work actually makes for an enjoyable extended read.Kudos to Penguin for producing an eminently useful small dictionary.
