| Foreword by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee |
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ix | |
| Preface and Acknowledgments |
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xiii | |
| New Features in Abridged Edition 14 |
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xvii | |
| Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification |
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xxiii | |
| About the Introduction |
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xxiii | |
| Classification: What It Is and What It Does |
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xxiii | |
| History, Current Use, and Development of the Dewey Decimal Classification |
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xxiii | |
| Overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification |
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xxiv | |
| Conceptual Framework |
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xxiv | |
| Notation |
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xxvi | |
| Principle of Hierarchy |
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xxvi | |
| Classifying with the DDC |
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xxvii | |
| Determining the Subject of a Work |
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xxvii | |
| Determining the Discipline of a Work |
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xxviii | |
| More Than One Subject in the Same Discipline |
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xxviii | |
| More Than One Discipline |
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xxix | |
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xxx | |
| How Abridged Edition 14 Is Arranged |
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xxx | |
| Key Features of the Schedules and Tables |
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xxxi | |
| Summaries |
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xxxi | |
| Entries |
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xxxi | |
| Notes |
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xxxii | |
| Number Building |
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xxxvii | |
| Citation and Preference Order |
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xl | |
| Citation Order |
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xl | |
| Preference Order |
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xli | |
| The Manual |
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xli | |
| Arrangement and Format of the Manual |
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xli | |
| The Relative Index |
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xlii | |
| Arrangement and Format of the Relative Index |
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xliii | |
| Interdisciplinary Numbers |
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xliii | |
| Terms Included in the Relative Index |
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xliv | |
| Terms Not Included in the Relative Index |
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xliv | |
| Options |
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xlv | |
| Close and Broad Classification |
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xlvi | |
| More Information |
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xlvi | |
| Glossary |
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xlvii | |
| Index to the Introduction and Glossary |
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lvii | |
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1 | (110) |
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3 | (16) |
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Notes on Schedule Numbers |
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19 | (92) |
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Relocations and Discontinuations |
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111 | (4) |
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111 | (3) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (62) |
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117 | (11) |
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Geographic Areas, and Persons |
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128 | (38) |
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Subdivisions for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms |
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166 | (6) |
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Subdivisions of Individual Languages |
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172 | (5) |
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177 | (12) |
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189 | (630) |
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Computer science, information, general works |
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191 | (41) |
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Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology |
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232 | (26) |
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258 | (41) |
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299 | (180) |
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479 | (17) |
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Natural sciences and mathematics |
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496 | (67) |
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Technology (Applied sciences) |
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563 | (101) |
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The arts Fine and decorative arts |
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664 | (80) |
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Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric |
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744 | (19) |
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History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines |
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763 | (56) |
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819 | (1) |
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Abbreviations Used in the Index |
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820 | (1) |
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