General encyclopaedias

Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study.

Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present.

From their heyday in the 1910s to their lingering demise in the 1950s, American film serials delivered excitement in weekly installments for millions of moviegoers, despite minuscule budgets, nearly impossible shooting schedules and the disdain of critics.

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The ultimate mathematics reference bookThis is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics.

This masterful six-volume encyclopedia provides comprehensive, global coverage of religion, emphasizing larger religious communities without neglecting the world's smaller religious outposts.

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Volume 3 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.

Containing almost 250 entries written by scholars from around the world, this two-volume resource provides current, accurate, and useful information on the politics, economics, society, and cultures of India since 1947.

This encyclopedia examines Marie Curie's life and contributions.

Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich für die Archetypen-Seelenlehre von Varda Hasselmann und Frank Schmolke interessieren.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 secured for Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist forces what no amount of pleading had been able to produce: an influx of U.

This book--the first in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of Japanese baseball data--presents basic statistical information and listings for every Japanese professional baseball season from 1936 through 1997.

Die atemberaubende Geschwindigkeit mit der sich unsere Welt verändert, und die gravierenden Entwicklungen, die sich bereits in der ersten Dekade des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts abzeichneten, werfen viele Fragen auf und verunsichern uns.

Die Sammlung von Zitaten aus Goethes Werken will in erster Linie ein Hilfsmittel sein, ein Nachschlagewerk, dessen man sich bei Bedarf bedient und dessen höchste Leistung darin besteht, dass es den Benutzer zum Lesen verführt

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.

A World War II adventure story of epic proportions, this book tells the heroic tale of a dedicated band of men who refused to let their crippled ship sink to the bottom of the Pacific in late 1944.

Much of the violence that has been associated with the United States has had particular salience for the South, from its high homicide rates, or its bloody history of racial conflict, to southerners' popular attachment to guns and traditional support for capital punishment.

From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging.

Edgar Rice Burroughs was not satisfied with creating characters and events within the world that we know; instead he created whole new worlds for histories, and he filled them with peoples, languages, cities, wars, plants, machines, and monsters that were believable to the reader, yet still alien and fantastic enough to thrill and delight.

■ Newton: Der Pfad des Lichts■ Wissen als Werkzeug: Rutherfords Welt■ Wissenschaft im Umbruch■ Atom und leerer Raum im dritten Jahrtausend■ Ungewohntes Denken■ Der Mensch in der Gemeinschaft■ Enzyklopädisches Stichwort: Wissenschaft und allgemeines Denken■ Erklärung einiger Fachausdrücke■ Literaturhinweise■ Namen- und Sachregister

Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop.

Yoga zum Nachschlagen bei gesundheitlichen Störungen - was hilft?

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South - and how the South has shaped the history of mass media.

Die Reihe "ARBEITSRECHT effektiv" konzentriert sich auf die klausurrelevanten Grundlagen des Individualarbeitsrechts.

Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television.

Between January 17 and February 28, 1991, an international military coalition sanctioned by the United Nations and led by the United States defeated a large, well-equipped Iraqi army and forced it to withdraw from occupied Kuwait.

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.

To date, coaching is largely known as a 1:1 dialogue which can help managers overcome performance deficits.

Answers to the questions that keep you up at night-from Why is bellybutton lint generally blue?

Curious about the chains that bound Fenriswulf in Norse mythology?

The location of "e;the South"e; is hardly a settled or static geographic concept.

The first encyclopedic reference to Atlantic historyBetween the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history-through maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more.

The location of "e;the South"e; is hardly a settled or static geographic concept.

When two human ova fail to fully separate during pregnancy, the result is conjoined twins.

The Global eBook Report 2017 is highlighting, and measuring the relevant international trends:- Tracking main market developments and the diversity of relevant drivers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia;- The segmentation of book markets in print and digital;- European ebook markets in great and previously unavailable detail, based on in depth data provided by leading distributors;- Ebooks in the context of the overall transformation in international publishing;- Global players, and their impact on re-shaping the international business of books.

Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.

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Volume 10 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture combines two of the sections from the original edition, adding extensive updates and 53 entirely new articles.

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South.

Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study.

The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well known international multisport gathering--but since 1896, hundreds of other competitions based on the Olympic Games model have been established whose histories have not been well documented.

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

The four volumes of the encyclopedia of Cameroon aviation law are intended for students, lawyers, judges, scholars, and readers of all backgrounds with an interest in aviation law and to provide the definitive corpus of relevant national and regional legislation, including global aviation treaties and legislation, to enable all readers, without exception, to develop the background, knowledge, and tools to understand local, regional, and international aviation law in a contextual fashion.

This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference ever published on the wide range of martial arts disciplines practiced in cultures around the world.

One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity.

On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a daily basis.