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  Business Plans Handbook
Find sample business plans for hundreds of different businesses.

Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Know BC is home to this Encyclopedia which features articles about BC past and present, photographs, statistics, charts & maps. Some great BC reference e-books are also included: BC Place Names, Far West: The Story of BC, Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest, Where Mountains Meet the Sky: The History of Coastal BC and Raincoast Chronicles 20.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed., 2009
This ebook covers all genres & periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day. Includes trends, styles, record labels, venues, music festivals, and discographies that include a 5-star album rating system.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search a library of reference books online - business, history, philosophy, and literature.

Library To Go
Library ebooks you can download onto your e-reader (Kobo, Sony), iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac, and e-audiobooks for your MP3. You will need a library card from your home library to place a hold or download, but no card needed to browse!

Ebook Wiki (Library card not required)
Find answers to your Library to Go and other ebook and e-reader questions.

Literature Criticism Online
A gold mine of reviews and criticism of novels, plays, poetry and other works by over 3000 authors writing from 1960 onward. Search by author or title.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Thorough overviews of major concepts, movements, and thinkers in human philosophy, politics, and economics.

Oxford Reference Online
Contains over 100 English and foreign language dictionaries, plus thesauri, quotations, maps, timelines, and a comprehensive encyclopedia - not to mention the excellent "Oxford Companion" series.

Shakespeare for Students
Plot summaries, characters, themes, historical context, criticism and more. Search by play, or browse the e-Index for specific topics.

Twentieth Century History Reference Library
Articles, biographies, diaries, speeches and more from World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.

World War I Reference Library
Essays, chronologies, biographies, diaries, speeches and more from the World War I period.

World War II Reference Library
Essays, chronologies, biographies, diaries, speeches and more from the Second World War.

 
     
  Recommended Websites  
  AudioBooksForFree.com
Easy to use, whether you're searching for a specific title or browsing for something new. Downloads in low-bandwidth format are free; you'll need to pay for higher quality.

Google Books
A useful research tool since Google's powerful search engine searches the contents of books Google has scanned. Older titles are available in full text; newer books tend to have limited previews.

LibriVox
Free audiobooks from the public domain (copyright-free). Downloadable in MP3 format.

The Online Books Page
Promises listings for over 25,000 titles free on the web.

Project Gutenberg
Download from this collection of over 20,000 free books, including some audiobooks.

 
     
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  Research Centre - Encyclopedias & Dictionaries