General encyclopaedias

Over the past 60 seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers have risen to the pinnacle of Major League Baseball, winning 21 National League pennants and 6 World Series titles.

'There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history' Illustrated London News The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published.

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon.

More than 30 different organisms cause infection and disease when transmitted by venereal contact.

Wo findet man rotfleischige Walnüsse und wo Metzger, die wissen, wie man eine "Frâche" mit Leber und mit Kohlrüben herstellt?

Die evangelisch-reformierte Landeskirche beider Appenzell hat sich zwischen 1991 und 2012 verändert.

Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living.

This set provides insight into the lives of ordinary Americans free and enslaved, in farms and cities, in the North and the South, who lived during the years of 1815 to 1860.

Saddam Hussein's execution for his crimes against Iraq's Shia not only brought an end to his reign of oppression, but also to the justice that was to be served to the Iraqi Kurds.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.

The musical voice of Texas presents itself as vast and diverse as the Lone Star State's landscape.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GOTHIC Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the field of gothic studies A reference work that s firmly rooted in and actively devoted to expressing the current state of academic scholarship about its area.

This landmark piece of reference publishing offers a reliable, visually stunning, and family-friendly alternative to online information sources.

Among the world's myriad cultures and their associated calendars, the idea of a "e;New Year"e; is relative and hardly specifies a universal celebration or even a universal point in time.

In this two-volume set, a series of expert contributors look at what it means to be a boy growing up in North America, with entries covering everything from toys and games, friends and family, and psychological and social development.

Transcending familiar categories of "e;black"e; and "e;white,"e; this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "e;southernness"e; by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South.

This encyclopedia contains more than 1500 detailed entries covering such topics as equipment, methods, concepts, design process, electricity, characteristics of light, and lightboard operations.

The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in EnglishWith more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English.

Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next 200 years.

What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "e;leisure,"e; reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives.

The fifth volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores language and dialect in the South, including English and its numerous regional variants, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant communities.

Warum dieses Buch so wichtig ist: Das Werk zeigt einen spannenden Lösungsweg auf, von einer schweren gesundheitlichen Krise zurück zu einem gesunden Leben.

Ein Standardwerk, das neue Massstäbe setzt.

From the earliest days of oral history to the present, the vampire myth persists among mankind's deeply-rooted fears.

Over the past 60 seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers have risen to the pinnacle of Major League Baseball, winning 21 National League pennants and 6 World Series titles.

"Das große Buch der Allgemeinbildung" ist als zeitgemäßes Standardwerk ein Leitfaden durch das Labyrinth des Wissensangebots unserer Zeit.

Transcending familiar categories of "e;black"e; and "e;white,"e; this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "e;southernness"e; by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South.

In the literature dealing with the history of printing and its allied trades, there are few subjects that have not been exhaustively treated.

The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history.

Volume 2 of the Encyclopedia of Financial Models The need for serious coverage of financial modeling has never been greater, especially with the size, diversity, and efficiency of modern capital markets.

Have a curious child that always asks the five big "e;W"e; questions: Who, What, Where, When and Why?

The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion offers both parents and professionals access to the best scholarship from all areas of child studies in a remarkable one-volume reference.

Vor dem Hintergrund ihrer langjährigen Erfahrungen im interkulturellen und religiösen Kontext bringt Simone Krüger, selbst in der Sozialen Arbeit tätig, ein Werk auf den Markt, welches mit Präzision die wichtigsten Themen rund um die alltägliche interkulturelle Arbeit insbesondere mit Menschen aus Ländern des Orients anspricht.

There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South.

There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South.

The appearance of Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine makes the second stage of a major publishing project.

Entspannung, Meditation und Selbsthypnose werden in einen gemeinsamen, psychologischen Rahmen gestellt.

The third in a series about home video games, this detailed reference work features descriptions and reviews of every official U.

When the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry.

Der aus Augsburg stammende Komponist Max Welcker schrieb volkstümlich-spätromantische Musik für unterschiedlich grosse Chorbesetzungen.

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region.

Science and medicine have been critical to southern history and the formation of southern culture.

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage TrustThe perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions.

This reference work provides a comprehensive guide to popular and obscure video games of the 1970s and early 1980s, covering virtually every official United States release for programmable home game consoles of the pre-Nintendo NES era.

This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day.