This updated dictionary of modern and contemporary art contains over 2,000 entries on a vast range of subjects, including movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, schools, and galleries. Fascinating, comprehensive, and authoritative, it is a useful A-Z guide for art stud…
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources--folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them--and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young …
Using an A-Z encyclopedia-style, this work explores modern social life, legal thought, and the interaction of these with Shakespearean drama.
Derived from the content of the respected McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, each title provides thousands of definitions of words and phrases encountered in a specific discipline, this time rocks and minerals.
The all-in-one "Reference reference" you've been waiting for, this invaluable book offers a concise introduction to reference sources and services for a variety of readers, from library staff members who are asked to work in the reference department to managers and others who wi…
"This new edition, with more than 21,000 entries, provides the most complete listing available of generic names of fungi, their families and orders, their attributes and descriptive terms. For each genus, the authority, the date of publication, status, systematic position, numbe…
Contains over 60,000 Spanish and English entries reflecting current spellings. Includes hundreds of new words, geographical names and their derivatives, and road and street signs.
Contains over 60,000 Spanish and English entries reflecting current spellings. Includes hundreds of new words, geographical names and their derivatives, and road and street signs.
"The thirteenth edition of this dictionary has been updated in response to changes in the core life-sciences fields, and now includes new terms from bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics. It has over 22,000 entries; clear definitions and additional explanations; covers a wide…
"The thirteenth edition of this dictionary has been updated in response to changes in the core life-sciences fields, and now includes new terms from bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics. It has over 22,000 entries; clear definitions and additional explanations; covers a wide…