Meaning of reference book in English

This book is likely to become the backstop reference book for the field, since it is so comprehensive and balanced.

This is an indispensable reference book for all who have an interest in the genetic resources of cocoa.

For those with a working knowledge of digital audio it is simply an essential reference book.

However, it undermines a little the implicit claim both in the introduction and in the term ' handbook ' that this is a descriptive reference book.

This is a useful reference book, particularly for soil chemists and biologists.

This is a book positively bristling with personality and individuality and was a tonic to myflaggingopinion of the reference book.

However, it also should serve as a useful reference book for the rest of us. But if the text was indeed intended as a reference book, other interesting possibilities arise.

It will prove an invaluable reference book to students talking environmental courses, and should find a place in all larger geological and zoological libraries.

It is an invaluable reference book and is a must for the library of anyone who works or studies in the region.

This comprehensive reference book provides a good overview of global agriculture at the end of the millennium.

It is a reference book which does what it says it will do, in an orderly and coherent way.

The volume, which functions well as a textbook or reference book, contains chapters incorporating basic concepts, themes, trends, and controversies in psycholinguistics.

This is a professional reference book, pitched for the most part at a level above that of undergraduate teaching.

Its accessible writing style and uncomplicated approach to the subject make it an invaluable reference book to have at hand in the clinical environment.

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Translations of reference book

in Chinese (Traditional) in Chinese (Simplified) in Spanish libro de referencia, libro de consulta [masculine, singular]… in Portuguese livro de consulta, livro de consulta [masculine]… in more languages in Japanese in Turkish in Catalan in Swedish in Norwegian in Ukrainian in Russian in Indonesian in Vietnamese in Italian 参考書, 参考図書, 参考図書(さんこうとしょ)… başvuru kitabı, kaynak, referans… ouvrage [masculine] de référence, ouvrage de référence… llibre de referència… naslagwerk… opslagsbog, håndbog… uppslags-, hand-, referensbok… buku rujukan… das Nachschlagewerk… oppslagsverk [neuter], oppslagsbok, håndbok… справочник… كِتاب مَرجِعي… (naučný) slovník, příručka… buku rujukan… หนังสืออ้างอิง… sách tham khảo… wydawnictwo lub źródło encyklopedyczne, leksykon, słownik itd.… libro di consultazione, opera/testo/libro di consultazione… Need a translator?

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