The sixth in a series documenting Union army colonels, this biographical dictionary lists regimental commanders from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official.
Benin is now perceived of as a model of democracy in Africa because it has successfully established a democratic political system based on consensus and regular and fair elections, and it continues to improve its electoral and parliamentary systems.
This book covers the development of the presidential office within the context of constitutional interpretations of presidential power and socio-political and economic developments, as well as foreign affairs events, from 1789-2015.
This is a travel sized and easy-to-use Indonesian phrasebook, dictionary, and beginning Indonesian language bookThe lessons in this book are prioritized, with more important words and phrases being give first, so that you may profit no matter how deeply into the book you go.
There are several eras in the history of Christianity radical forms of the tradition are obvious: the early church of the first five centuries, the medieval era, the age of reform, the early modern era, and the contemporary era.
Designed to help lexicographers compile better dictionaries of English, this book provides information about the language that is not available in any other single source.
The words come from different countries where English is spoken, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, South Africa, and othersThe author's website has received more than 1.
The new second edition of the Collins COBUILD English Usage has been specially designed for upper-intermediate and advanced students and teachers of English.
First published in 1897, "e;A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant"e; includes definitions for a wide range of contemporary slang-English words, as well as those relating to American, Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, "e;gypsies' jargon"e;, and other interesting contemporary phraseology.
This reference work contains entries on 1,560 women who have excelled in their careers to become well-known leaders in politics, business, education and culture.
Moving beyond the original bodhi tree where the historical Buddha attained enlightenment, Buddhism spread throughout Asia and in more recent history has become ubiquitous in America and other Western nations as it marches into the status of a major global religion.
The internationally focused Dictionary of Museology reflects the diversity of cultural and disciplinary approaches to theory and practice in the museum field today.
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present.
Costa Rica has been largely recognized as a democratic and politically stable country in a region (Central America) characterized by instability, dictatorships, and social inequality.
This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II.
