The latest title in the much-loved Element Encyclopedia series, The Element Encyclopedia of Fairies explores the history, legends, and mythology of these little peoples.
This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India.
An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century.
A study of the roles community, financial support, texts, information structures, interfaces, and technology play in collaborative worksWikipedia is arguably the most famous collaboratively written text of our time, but few know that nearly three hundred years ago Ephraim Chambers proposed an encyclopedia written by a wide range of contributors-from illiterate craftspeople to titled gentry.
The most important poetry reference for more than four decades-now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more.
That art should once have been markedwith this delicacy: always only oneof each thing made, so that your poemhas its one life on the sheetyou have chosen for it, or the snapshotof the birthday party, everythingin the room upended by the children'sjubilation, survives onlyin the single defended piece of glass.
To the astonishment and dismay of Anglican leadership in the Global North, Nigeria's Archbishop Peter Akinola led the Global South's revolt against the campaign to normalize homosexuality within the global Anglican communion.
L'étude des groupes sociaux situe ces derniers à un niveau intermédiaire de la réalité sociale, ou plus précisément à une position moyenne dans la série des ensembles sociaux, définis selon leur dimension, leur extension.
Dernier grand ouvrage laissé par Louis Marin (1931-1992) et publié après sa mort, Philippe de Champaigne nous renvoie aussi à ses premières publications : les Études sémiologiques (1971) .
This book deals with several basic topics, including the departure from ancient inventions to high-tech technologies, including the Chinese's dependence on the inputs of modern Western science and technology.
Il est peu de personnages historiques dont l'influence sur l'histoire de l'humanité ait été aussi grande que celle de Jésus, eu égard à la durée exceptionnellement courte de sa prédication.
