Imagine having the power and convenience of the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia in your pocket! With this internationally respected reference work at hand anytime, anywhere you’ll always have the answers you need when you need them. Keeping in mind the evolving needs of today’s reference book users, Oxford have brought more than 150 years of experience to bear upon the revisions and redesign while maintaining their unsurpassed attention to detail and quality.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

For more than 230 years Encyclopedia Britannica has been the last word in thorough and authoritative reference works. With over 25,000 entries, the concise version of their multivolume Encyclopedia Britannica is the most up to date resource available anywhere. Providing fast and accurate information on an exhaustive variety of topics you will find entries on history, science, art, people, politics, literature, popular culture geography and so much more.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary

This update of the justifiably renowned Concise Oxford English Dictionary gives you access to the entirety of the English language with more than 240,000 entries. It is absolutely the last word in dictionaries and contains all the latest developments in the language with over 1500 new words and their definitions. The history and origin of words is also covered and it offers users the opportunity to enrich their vocabulary while increasing comprehension with its exhaustive treatment of the language. The grammatical supplements are particularly useful to all students of English no matter what age or level of proficiency.

Concise Oxford Thesaurus

Also updated, the Concise Oxford Thesaurus is an invaluable desk reference for anyone using English regularly, providing information you can rely on. A classic resource, which provides synonyms, antonyms and alternate words, its 4,000,000 entries encompass all types of English usage and includes specialist, technical and profession terms as well. Invaluable for all types of writing from business correspondence to creative endeavours and crossword puzzles, it is one of the essential tools for anyone interested in expanding their vocabulary and improving their writing. And rather than overwhelm the user with the abundance of choices it is able to offer, it presents the most useful alternate word with the most similar definition first, followed by the full range of alternatives it is able to suggest.

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Quotations

Quotations for every occasion from every important literary source in the history of the English language! With more than 9,000 quotations from over 2,500 sources, this storehouse of information is easily searchable using authors names and keywords and will provide you with a quotation to suit every occasion. Not only does it contain all the most important historical material but, as with all Oxford releases, includes the latest additions to the cultural heritage of the English language with quotes from contemporary figures as well.

Bonus features:

• Spellchecker: 130,000 word phonetic spellchecker.
• Solvers: 7 indispensable solvers to help you with crosswords, anagrams, abbreviations, letter changes, finding phrases, searching definitions, and encyclopedia searches.
• Word Games: 11 great vocabulary-building word games to challenge your command of the English language. 3 skill levels per game.
• Calculator and Converters: A full function calculator with Memory and % commands is included, together with over 190 invaluable metric/imperial & currency converters.
• 2 AAA batteries included.