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Oxford Companions is a book series

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published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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. This series provides general knowledge of a specific area, and has included (in alphabetical order):

The New Oxford Companion to Law
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
The New Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Music is a music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press. It was originally conceived and written by Percy Scholes and published in 1938. Since then, it has undergone two distinct rewritings, one by Denis Arnold, in 1983,...
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink
The Oxford Companion to American Law
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
The Oxford Companion to Art
The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature
The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore
Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport
The Oxford Companion to Beer
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
The Oxford Companion to British History
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
The Oxford Companion to Chess
The Oxford Companion to Chess
The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference book on chess written by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld. The book is written in an encyclopedia format. The book belongs to the Oxford Companions series.-Details:...
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture
The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is a book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by Oxford University Press. It is compiled and edited by Sir Paul Harvey, Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and lecturer in Classical Languages at the University of Oxford.The book provides an...
The Oxford Companion to Cosmology
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
The Oxford Companion to English Literature first published in 1932, edited by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey , was the earliest of the Oxford Companions to appear...
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
The Oxford Companion to Film
The Oxford Companion to Food
The Oxford Companion to French Literature
The Oxford Companion to Gardens
The Oxford Companion to German Literature
The Oxford Companion to Global Change
The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology: The Archaeological Foundations of Ancient India
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice
The Oxford Companion to Irish History
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature is edited by Robert Welch and was completed in 1996.In over 2,000 entries, the Companion to Irish Literature surveys the Irish literary landscape across some sixteen centuries, describing its features and landmarks...
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
The Oxford Companion to J. M. W. Turner
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
The Oxford Companion to Law
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain
The Oxford Companion to Medicine
The Oxford Companion to Military History
The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Music is a music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press. It was originally conceived and written by Percy Scholes and published in 1938. Since then, it has undergone two distinct rewritings, one by Denis Arnold, in 1983,...
The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy is a reference work in philosophy edited by Ted Honderich and published by Oxford University Press in 1995. A second edition was published in 2005 and included some 300 new entries. The new edition has over 2,200 entries and 291 contributors in 1,080...
The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
The Oxford Companion to Popular Music
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television
The Oxford Companion to the Bible
The Oxford Companion to the Body
The Oxford Companion to the Brontës
The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts
The Oxford Companion to the Earth
The Oxford Companion to the English Language
The Oxford Companion to the Garden
The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science is an encyclopedia on the history of science from around the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The book includes 609 articles by over two hundred authors.The editor-in-chief was J. L. Heilbron and the editors were...
The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832
The Oxford Companion to the Second World War
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-reckoning
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
The Oxford Companion to United States History
The Oxford Companion to Wine
The Oxford Companion to Wine
The Oxford Companion to Wine is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press. The book provides an alphabetically arranged reference to wine, compiled and edited by Jancis Robinson, with contributions by several wine writers including Hugh Johnson, Michael...
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
The Oxford Companion to World Sports and Games
The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine
The Oxford India Guide Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology
The Oxford Medical Companion
The Oxford Names Companion

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