Encyclopaedias and reference works

This unique collection of data includes concise definitions and explanations relating to all aspects of the European Union.

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

The tables in the booklet are an ideal complement to a thermodynamics textbook.

First published in 1960, this book is intended to be a concise but complete treatise on Ethics.

An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.

Written for librarians, teachers, and researchers, this is the second five-year supplement to the authors' Dictionary of American Children's Fiction, 1960-1984 (Greenwood, 1986).

Originally published in 1926, this volume charts the achievements of Edward Thring, arguably the most original and striking figure in the schoolmaster world of England in the nineteenth century.

This volume of primary source materials documents the nature of the home and the theories and discussions around the concept.

When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be the most popular new program of the year.

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The 1971 Supplement adds some 3,500 entries to the approximately 7,000 listed in the original volume and the 1965 Supplement.

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The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States.

Find out what makes metadata an exciting addition to resource descriptionMetadata: A Cataloger's Primer provides catalog librarians and students with a comprehensive instructional resource on the ongoing convergence of cataloging and metadata.

The period from 1925 to 1960 was the heyday of the American Radio Soap Opera.

This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity.

The Magpie and the Wardrobe A Curiosity of Folklore, Magic and Spells, is a lovingly curated compendium of time-honoured traditions and curious customs that have bewitched us for generations.

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This book is a cultural tour of the burial places of Southern musicians.

This book challenges the dominant narrative of young people being a uniquely violent group.

The Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, translated from the French Dictionnaire Critique de Theologie 2ndEdition, features over 530 entries, contributed by 250 scholars from fifthteen different countries.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book proposal-and seeing your book through to successful publicationThe scholarly book proposal may be academia's most mysterious genre.

This book explores marijuana from a variety of angles, including its impacts on the brain and body, potential for abuse, and legal status.

This four-volume set documents the complexity and richness of women's contributions to American history and culture, empowering all students by demonstrating a more populist approach to the past.

For foodies, wordsmiths, and anyone who loves to eat, an illustrated guide to authentic American fare, from the beloved Roadfood teamIn linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions.

Accessible to students and practitioners without an advanced degree in environmental economics, this essential reference work pinpoints the role of the economy in both creating and solving many of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.

The Atlas of X-Linked Intellectual Disability Syndromes is a comprehensive and up-to-date summary of the clinically distinctive disorders caused by genes on the X chromosome.

Beginning in 500 with the fusion of classical, Christian, and Germanic cultures and ending in 1300 with a Europe united by a desire for growth, knowledge, and change, this volume provides basic information on the significant cultural figures of the Middle Ages.

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Children who come into conflict with the law are more likely to have experienced violence or adversity than their non-offending peers.

This new book, greatly expanded from the 1995 first edition, describes detailed, step-by-step procedures for sculpting, molding and painting original prehistoric animals.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.

For over a century, the conflict between the Arabs and Jews has remained the most intractable problem confronting the world.

Explore queer cinema over time with this comprehensive encyclopedia, helping readers understand films, directors, actors, themes, and other topics related to LGBTQ cinema history.

This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario.

First published in 2004.

The bestselling structural design reference, fully updated and revised Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders is the go-to reference on structural design, giving architects and designers a concise introduction to the structures commonly used for typical buildings.

This volume of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies brings together essays on four Frenchmen, a Czech, and three Englishmen.

A delightful illustrated treasury of botanical facts and fancyFlorapedia is an eclectic AZ compendium of botanical lore.

Collaboration among contemporary Native American communities and local public schools is vital for nurturing Native languages.

Sometimes it's neither art nor science that serves as the origins of the everyday kitchen and food items that we take for granted today.

In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be.