Combines authoritative definitions with the occasional humorous one.

Contains over 1300 entries on unexplained phenomena.

Dictionaries of biography.

Even in our high-tech world, billions of people continue to place their faith in a god, or gods, in spirits or in another form of divinity. Many adhere to beliefs outside the major faith traditions, while others see science and secular modernity as providing a sufficient basis for a meaningful life.

This thesaurus has been designed to provide users with the most useful words first. It includes over 300 panels of thematically related words, with more than 180,000 alternative words in all.

A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.