General encyclopaedias

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century.

A memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Irish family by frequent late-night guest and Howard Stern Show veteran Greg Fitzsimmons, as told through a collection of disciplinary letters.

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.

Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture.

Catherine the Great: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works covers all aspects of her life and work.

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

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

A comprehensive culinary encyclopeadia, fully explaining any terms and words associated with the subject.

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.

Sammelsurium für Sprachenfreaks ist eine in mehreren Jahren entstandene bunte Sammlung von sprachwissenschaftlichen Fakten, Übersetzungsproblemen, Wiedergabe von Sprichwörtern und Redensarten, Wortgeschichten, Kuriosa und lustigen Episoden.

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.

The essential one-volume reference to evolutionThe Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions.

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

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century.

The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history.

Ob TV-Talkshow, Wirtschaftsforum oder Printmagazin - immer häufiger sind es Denker aus verschiedenen Disziplinen, die zu sämtlichen Themen unseres komplexen Lebens befragt werden: Die Philosophen kommen.

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

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

An essential reference to all facets of the world economyIncreasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever.

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 the manger of Jesus Christ to the 21st century, this encyclopedia explores more than 2,000 years of Christmas past and present through 966 entries packed with a wide variety of historical and pop-culture subjects.

A 1906 film called The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend shows a man drinking and eating voraciously at a restaurant, then going home to bed.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender.

In its greatly expanded second edition, this definitive reference work on the sport of Polo includes more than 18,000 alphabetical and cross-referenced entries covering players, teams, national and international tournaments, rules of the game, books on polo and their authors, as well as painters and sculptors of polo subjects.

Think you know everything there is to know about Hammer Films, the fabled "e;Studio that Dripped Blood?

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.

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.

See science as you've never seen it before.

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

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

The 2016 edition of the Global eBook report, with more than 50 data driven original charts and tables, is the international industry reference on the evolution of ebook markets focuses on relevant key angles for an understanding of the current transformation of book publishing in a global perspective: Market close ups (print and digital) for the US, UK, Europe (notably France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands Spain, Sweden, and a detailed overview on Central and Eastern Europe),Plus analysis of selected emerging markets, notably Brazil, China, India and Russia;Summaries of key debates and driving forces (global players such as Amazon, statistical close ups on pricing, performance by genre, piracy, patterns of consumer habits, DRM, self publishing, et al.

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The official and definitive guide to the characters of the dynamic, ever-expanding Marvel Universe now updated with more than 1,200 iconic Super Heroes and villains.

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

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.

Dieses Buch ist ein Grundlagenwerk für Hebammen, die sich und den von ihnen betreuten schwangeren Frauen Sinn und Bedeutung der manuellen Untersuchung erklären möchten.

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

From Kant to Kierkegaard, from Hegel to Heidegger, continental philosophers have indelibly shaped the trajectory of Western thought since the eighteenth century.

Das Handbuch enthält einschließlich weniger Auswärtiger die Biografien von 1.

Dieses Buch wendet sich an Frauen mit dem Wunsch nach Veränderung.

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

The Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515-2015, is a reference work that includes the profiles of authors of literature about records and archives in the Western world who have shaped the records and archives field over a span of 500 years.

The second edition contains updated resources, research institution information and a listing of treatment and care facilities in the United States.

Catherine the Great: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works covers all aspects of her life and work.

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.

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present.