Reference works

Scientia est potentia (knowledge is power)!

The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama.

Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values.

A former British colony, The Gambia became independent in 1965 and has had only three presidents since then.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "1974" verfügbar.

The years from the battle of Actium to the death of Nero stand at the very heart of Roman history.

The first in a progression series aimed at beginner climbers, Climbing: From First-Timer to Gym Climber walks you through your first time trying to rock climb and offers basic instruction on the fundamental skills needed to get off the ground and onto the wall.

Combine marketing and strategic planning techniques to make your library more successful!

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources.

Ten Days that Shook the World of Education: A Close Look at the People who Facilitated Educational Change focuses on the critical moments that changed the course of our unique educational experiment.

The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.

Ghana, the former British West African colony of the Gold Coast, is known for its rich agricultural, mineral, and petroleum resources.

A comprehensive illustrated guide to the Old World family of birds in the Helm Identification series.

The Professional Life.

Preserve your foods with time-tested methods.

Originally published in 1958.

Always study with the most up-to-date prep!

A photographic guide to 536 species of plant galls found west of the RockiesBeautiful and bizarre, plant galls are growths of various shapes, sizes, and colors produced in response to invading organisms.

A remarkable life story.

This first volume in the new Stories of the Susquehanna Valley series describes the Native American presence in the Susquehanna River Valley, a key crossroads of the old Eastern Woodlands between the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay in northern Appalachia.

The two original volumes of the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy were published in 2007.

Although there are several annotated bibliographies of contemporary Spanish novelists, this book covers critical works published on the post civil war Spanish novel as a literary form.

Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle's logic, virtues and mathematics as well as a consideration of De Anima and of his work on physics, specifically light.

Have you ever wondered what a term in international economics means?

Sex - who was having it, who shouldn't have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn't - was a major concern to social authorities in the immediate postwar era.

A comprehensive introductory resource with entries covering the development of money and the functions and dysfunctions of the monetary and financial system.

Julius Caesar's life and example have fascinated and motivated generations of people for nearly 2,000 years.

Can a political leader be effective without being tyrannical?

Despite constant hindrance from government interference and control, the Russian theater has produced many memorable playwrights, schools of thought, and plays, whose influence can be seen throughout the world.

The final decades of the 20th century have seen an explosion of interest in multiculturalism.

Today's society is not only fast-paced, it has become increasingly complex.

The 50 Greatest Players in Denver Broncos History examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on one of the National Football League's most successful franchises.

This book uses food as a lens through which to explore important matters of society and culture.

Intended as a tool for new students of Spanish linguistics or general linguistics, this dictionary offers concise definitions and examples of linguistics terminology and its branches in both Spanish and English.

Now includes a "e;Year in Review"e; highlighting over 180 recent medical advances since the last edition!

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation.

This user-friendly reference dictionary provides a quick guide to those who have governed Mexico from 1325 to 1997.

The latest volume in the Music Library Association's Index and Bibliography series, Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000, features over 9,000 references to analyses of works by more than 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book is a full-length study of the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, focusing in particular on instruments of human rights.

Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.

Band 2: Die Lieder des Evangelischen Gesangbuchs, Band 2: Biblische Gesänge und Glaube - Liebe - Hoffnung (EG 270-535)Nach dem erfolgreichen ersten Band komplettiert der zweite Band nun mit den Kommentaren zu EG 270–535 die kompakte Erläuterung der Lieder im Stammteil des Evangelischen Gesangbuchs.

Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale.

Celebrating the Name Samuel is a little collectible poem book that belongs to the Poetry of First Names Book Series by Walter the Educator.

Located on the southern-most tip of the Balkan peninsula in Europe's southeast, Greece is a small country of some 11 million people.

Our country and the world is changing fast, and a knowledge of history helps us understand the hows, whats, and whys of modern civilization.