This Encyclopedia is the main accomplished consultant but either to the character and content material of literature, and to literary feedback. In 90 essays through prime overseas critics and students, the amount covers either conventional subject matters reminiscent of literature and heritage, poetry, drama and the unconventional, and in addition more recent issues reminiscent of the construction and reception of literature. present serious principles are sincerely and provocatively mentioned, whereas the volume's association displays in a dynamic approach the wealthy variety of latest puzzling over literature.
Each essay seeks to supply the reader with a transparent experience of the whole value of its topic in addition to advice on additional reading.
An crucial paintings of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating consultant to the valuable preoccupations of latest severe considering literature.
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* basically written via students and critics of overseas status for readers in any respect degrees in lots of disciplines
* In-depth essays protecting all points, conventional and new, of literary stories prior and present
* priceless cross-references in the textual content, with complete bibliographical references and proposals for additional reading
* unmarried index of authors, phrases, themes

By Rudolf Bernhardt

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By Prosper Montagné

Revised and up to date with many new entries, illustrations and charts, this version covers nearly each factor and cooking type in background previous and current, from abaisse to zuppa inglese. The encyclopedia gains particular info and maps of the wine generating areas of the realm, together with New global manufacturers reminiscent of Chile and Australia. additionally it is recommendation on utilizing home equipment; recipes and advancements in nutrition.

Paginated and Bookmarked.

By Randall M. Miller

The process lifestyle within the usa has been a made from culture, atmosphere, and condition. How did the Civil struggle adjust the lives of ladies, either white and black, left by myself on southern farms? How did the nice melancholy swap the lives of operating classification households in japanese towns? How did the invention of gold in California remodel the lives of local American, Hispanic, and white groups in western territories? prepared by means of period of time as spelled out within the nationwide criteria for U.S. heritage, those 4 volumes successfully research the various entire of yankee event, reading the family, fiscal, highbrow, fabric, political, leisure, and non secular lifetime of the yankee humans among 1763 and 2005.Working less than the editorial path of normal editor Randall M. Miller, professor of background at St. Joseph's collage, a bunch of professional quantity editors rigorously combine fabric drawn from volumes in Greenwood's hugely winning everyday life via historical past sequence with new fabric researched and written through themselves and different students. The 4 volumes hide the subsequent classes: The battle of Independence and Antebellum growth and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil struggle, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of the United States, 1861-1900, The Emergence of recent the United States, international battle I, and the nice melancholy, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and modern the US, 1940-Present. each one quantity encompasses a collection of basic records, a timeline of significant occasions throughout the interval, pictures illustrating the textual content, and vast bibliography of additional details resources—both print and electronic—and an in depth topic index.

By Fred Skolnik

Grade 10 Up—This long-awaited revision of the preferable reference resource on Jewish lifestyles, tradition, and heritage updates the 1972 variation via both including to the unique info or making a thoroughly new access. New to this book are a charted precis of transliteration ideas; a listing of abbreviations; and entries discussing features of Holocaust research, the advance and effect of the country of Israel on Jewish existence, and the evolution of Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Hasidic, and Reconstructionist branches of the religion. Entries on Judaism in all 50 U.S. states and significant U.S. towns were up to date. Others are unchanged even though updating can have been warranted: for instance, info at the biblical personality Noah is unaltered, regardless of loads of comparable study, either textual and archaeological, on the grounds that 1972. besides the fact that, many entries with regards to spiritual legislation (halakhah) were absolutely rewritten to mirror its effect at the Israeli felony process. This variation includes 22 volumes in comparison to the unique sixteen. It boasts all new illustrations: greater than six hundred maps, charts, archaeological plans, and chronologies (for instance, kinfolk timber and an 8-page chart of Hasidic dynasties) and some colour photos of work, drawings, and artifacts in every one quantity. The thesaurus is unchanged. The final quantity incorporates a unique 270-page thematic define and a very good 632-page index that make the data in each one quantity obtainable. Libraries that personal the 1st version should want to substitute it with this one.—Jack Forman, Mesa collage Library, San Diego

By Chuck Wills

While did searching guns start to be used opposed to people rather than animals? what's the distinction among the Plains Indian battle membership and the Fijian conflict membership? What weapon is usual to peoples in all the pieces of the realm? The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry is a accomplished advisor to palms and armaments all through history.

Beginning within the Stone Age, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry travels throughout the Bronze Age to our modern-day, exhibiting the instruments people have used to protect themselves all over the globe. There’s the japanese tanto, or dagger, that have turn into pointed out with gangs often called yakuza. There’s the flaming arrow used while Swiss and Austrian forces clashed within the 14th century. And there’s the revolver that Samuel Colt made sensible for either army and civilian use in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry can assist readers larger comprehend how…and why…the battles of historical past have been fought.

By Kit L. Yam

By Brian Hopkins

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of kid improvement is a definitive, available and up to date account of all points of kid improvement. Written by way of a world workforce of top specialists, it adopts an interdisciplinary method masking subject matters that variety from neonatal improvement to schooling, encompassing pediatrics, neuroscience, theories and examine equipment, actual improvement, social improvement, cognitive improvement, psychopathology and parenting.

By Kimberly Kempf-Leonard

The Encyclopedia of Social size captures the knowledge, innovations, theories, designs, functions, histories, and implications of assigning numerical values to social phenomena. Responding to becoming calls for for transdisciplinary descriptions of quantitative and qualitative recommendations, size, sampling, and statistical tools, it is going to raise the talent of every person who gathers and analyzes facts. protecting all middle social technological know-how disciplines, the three hundred+ articles of the Encyclopedia of Social size not just current a finished precis of observational frameworks and mathematical versions, but in addition supply instruments, history info, qualitative equipment, and directions for structuring the examine procedure. Articles contain examples and functions of study concepts and strategies, highlighting multidisciplinary suggestions for staring at social phenomena. The alphabetical association of the articles, their glossaries and cross-references, and the volumes' specific index will motivate exploration around the social sciences. Descriptions of significant information units and case reports might help readers comprehend assets they could usually immediately entry. additionally to be had on-line through ScienceDirect - that includes broad shopping, looking out, and inner cross-referencing among articles within the paintings, plus dynamic linking to magazine articles and summary databases, making navigation versatile and straightforward. for additional information, pricing innovations and availability stopover at www.info.sciencedirect.com. * Introduces readers to the benefits and capability of particular suggestions and indicates extra assets that readers can then seek advice to benefit extra * Conveys various easy to complicated learn concerns in adequate element to provide an explanation for even the main complex statistical method. Readers are supplied with references for extra details * 11 noticeable sections delineate social sciences and the learn techniques they stick with to degree and supply new wisdom on a variety of themes * Authors are famous students and methodologists from all social technological know-how fields * inside all of the sections vital parts of quantitative and qualitative examine tools are dissected and illustrated with examples from varied fields of research * real study reports offer beneficial examples