Quiz 1 Flashcards
Books that cover many subjects
General works
000-099
Books about how we think
Philosophy
100-199
Books about Religion
Religion
200-299
Books about being with people
Social Science
300-399
Books about languages
Language
400-499
Books about making a living or making life easier
Technology
600-699
Books about the creative arts
The Arts
700-799
Books about literature
Literature
800-899
Books about history or travel
History
900-999
are summarized information about a wide variety of subject.
Encyclopedia
briefly contains a years event and data in government politics, demographics, and a lot more. This is published annually and is updated.
Almanacs, Year Book, Fact Books
contains maps, these comprehensive books contains many kinds of geographic information. Topography, Climates, Population, Migrations, Natural Resources, Crops, and etc.
Atlases
define words and terms. There are dictionaries that give various information about these words. specialized dictionaries also exist in many fields like economics and sciences. Like a dictionary, a thesaurus is an alphabetical listing of words with their synonyms. These are thesaurus that include antonym.
Dictionaries
reference books give brief information about major events in the lives of noteworthy people, male and female living or dead. there are specialized biographies that are focused on musicians, historians, politicians or various historical periods of nationalities.
Biographies
List books. This multivolume work classifies its entries by authors name, and generals subject heading, but does not describe the book content in any way.
Bibliographies