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Notable Latino Writers compiles 122 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, and short-story writers of the Western Hemisphere who are considered "Latino" in the broad sense of the term. Literature covered includes works originally written in English and those Spanish and Portuguese works that have been translated into English. For each there is a comprehensive overview of the author's biography and literary career as well as ready-refer...

Aims to meet the needs of college and high school students and those seeking information about both US history and women's history. Designed as a companion to Salem's "American Presidents, Second Revised Edition" (2 vols., 2006), this book presents a biographical essay on each of the First Ladies in US history.

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Notable Latino Writers compiles 122 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, and short-story writers of the Western Hemisphere who are considered "Latino" in the broad sense of the term. Literature covered includes works originally written in English and those Spanish and Portuguese works that have been translated into English. For each there is a comprehensive overview of the author's biography and literary career as well as ready-refer...

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The Renaissance & Early Modern Era's start date, 1454, was selected because it immediately follows the end of the Hundred Years? War and the Fall of Constantinople. The following century was marked by the height of the Renaissance in Europe, the rise of the Ottomans and the Wars of the Roses in Britain. Also, European colonization expanded into Africa, Asia and the Americas, Japan became unified and the rise of both indigenous and colonial tra...

This set covers individuals from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The set includes the standard figures - kings, queens, generals, artists, and scientists - but much more: Key figures who have previously received little attention, from the queen of Hausaland Amina Sarauniya Zazzua to composer Thomas Tallis, and even such notorious figures as Irish pirate Grace O'Malley and Hungarian nobelwoman Elizabeth B?thory.

This set covers individuals from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The set includes the standard figures - kings, queens, generals, artists, and scientists - but much more: Key figures who have previously received little attention, from the queen of Hausaland Amina Sarauniya Zazzua to composer Thomas Tallis, and even such notorious figures as Irish pirate Grace O'Malley and Hungarian nobelwoman Elizabeth B?thory.

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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition provides concise introductions to the lives and works of 2, 408 authors from around the world and from antiquity to the present. The set profiles important novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, lyricists, memoirists, essayists, biographers, critics, historians, and philosophers, as well as prominent figures in politics, the sciences, and the social sciences who wr...

Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition provides concise introductions to the lives and works of 2, 408 authors from around the world and from antiquity to the present. The set profiles important novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, lyricists, memoirists, essayists, biographers, critics, historians, and philosophers, as well as prominent figures in politics, the sciences, and the social sciences who wr...

Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition provides concise introductions to the lives and works of 2, 408 authors from around the world and from antiquity to the present. The set profiles important novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, lyricists, memoirists, essayists, biographers, critics, historians, and philosophers, as well as prominent figures in politics, the sciences, and the social sciences who wr...

Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition provides concise introductions to the lives and works of 2, 408 authors from around the world and from antiquity to the present. The set profiles important novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, lyricists, memoirists, essayists, biographers, critics, historians, and philosophers, as well as prominent figures in politics, the sciences, and the social sciences who wr...

Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition provides concise introductions to the lives and works of 2, 408 authors from around the world and from antiquity to the present. The set profiles important novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, lyricists, memoirists, essayists, biographers, critics, historians, and philosophers, as well as prominent figures in politics, the sciences, and the social sciences who wr...

This is a resource for basic information and historical context on more than 400 major US acts of congress and treaties, from the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution through the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the US-Russia Nuclear Arms Treaty of 2002.

Human Rights Violations focuses on denials of human rights, with an emphasis on major assaults on rights. Particular attention is paid to events involving government and other large-scale abuses of rights.

The titles covered in this set rank among the most frequently taught in their fields. titles range from classics such as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to such pioneering classics as H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds and J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings books. Among other prominent writers whose books are covered here are science-fiction masters Isaac Asimov, Arthur C.Clarke, a...

Animal Life offers accessible, easy-to-understand, scientific information on a subject of significant popular and academic interest. This four-volume encyclopedia concentrates on science in its discussion of nonhumans from the kingom Animalia, specifically on invertebrates, insects, arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds and mammals. The essays survey a wide range of topics that include anatomy, behavior, classification, ecology, evolut...

This popular addition to the Magill's Choice series examines 195 of the most significant inventions of the 20th century, and more than half of the articles include biographical sidebars on the people behind the inventions.