#189 - Trevor R.Griffiths - The Theatre Guide

Author or Editor: Trevor R.Griffiths
Publisher: A & C Black
Published: 2003
Pages: 424
Size: 10.1MB

The Theatre Guide is a theatre reference book with a difference because it concentrates on the writers and the plays you are actually likely to be able to see in the theatre now, rather than the writers who stay in theatre reference books because they have always been there, even though no one has staged their plays for generations. Its other unique feature is a cross-referencing system that allows you to find other plays or authors that have tackled similar topics, share similar interests or offer marked contrasts to the ones you started from; and when you look at those further entries you will find more cross-references that can lead you on a sometimes surprising journey of discovery that could give added enjoyment to your appreciation and understanding of theatre.

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#182 - Neil J. Salkind - Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics

Author or Editor: Neil J. Salkind
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Published: 2007
Pages: 1219
Size: 9.82MB

It’s an interesting paradox when an important subject, which can help us make sense of our busy, everyday world, is considered very difficult to approach. Such is the case with measurement and statistics. However, this does not necessarily have to be the case, and we believe that the Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics will show you why.

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#173 - Mitchell Beazley - PHILIP’S ASTRONOMY ENCYCLOPEDIA

Author or Editor: Mitchell Beazley
Publisher: Philip’s
Published: 2002
Pages: 455
Size: 31.5MB

Astronomy has involved extensive international collaborations for well over a century. The cross-disciplinary nature of contemporary research makes such collaborations even more compelling in the future. Furthermore, efforts to build the next generation of instruments on the ground and especially in space are so expensive that their funding will demand international participation.

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#172 - Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao - Encyclopedia of Chinese Film

Author or Editor: Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Pages: 475
Size: 4.58MB

This reference work is designed to provide, first of all, a comprehensive coverage of Chinese film in its historical, cultural, geopolitical, generic, thematic and textual aspects; and, secondly, a critical guide to assist the reader to navigate through these multiple aspects and to locate the exact information needed.

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#165 - Jacob E. Safra - Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2009

Author or Editor: Jacob E. Safra
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc
Published: 2008
Pages: 980
Size: 26.2MB

The biggest surprise from the Supreme Court term that just ended: Barack Obama hearts the Roberts court. At the end of June, the Democratic candidate praised Justice Antonin Scalia’s 5–4 decision striking down the Washington ban on handgun possession, a ruling that recognizes the right to bear arms as an individual right. Two weeks earlier, from the other side of the ideological spectrum, Obama praised Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 5–4 decision allowing enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a rebuke to the Bush administration’s policies toward Guantánamo detainees.

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#131 - Thomas E.Creighton - The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology

Author or Editor: Thomas E.Creighton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 1999
Pages: 4891
Size: 61.3MB

The Wiley Biotechnology Encyclopedias, composed of the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, the Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology: Fermentation, Biocatalysis, and Bioseparation, the Encyclopedia of Cell Technology, and the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, cover very broadly four major contemporary themes in biotechnology. The series comes at a fascinating time in that as we move into the twenty-first century, the discipline of biotechnology is undergoing striking paradigm changes.

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#107 - Dole Food Company, Inc. - Encyclopedia of Foods: A Guide to Healthy Nutrition

Author or Editor: Dole Food Company, Inc.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2002
Pages: 516
Size: 29.8MB

Nutrition is important to all of us. What we eat has a profound effect on our health and our enjoyment of life. Although there is a large amount of valid scientific information dealing with various aspects of nutrition, there is, unfortunately, even more misinformation. The average person thus has difficulty separating fact from fiction.

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#102 - Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie - The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists

Author or Editor: Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Pages: 1062
Size: 12.5MB

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English-language work
to provide a survey of ancient natural science, from its beginnings through to the end of late antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which are not mentioned in any other reference work – resulting in a unique and hugely ambitious resource which will prove indispensable for anyone seeking the details of the history of ancient science.

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#98 - Various - New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology

Author or Editor: Various
Publisher: Crescent Books
Published: 1987
Pages: 465
Size: 1.9MB

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. Hence the English adjective 'mythical', meaning 'incredible'; and hence the omission from standard European mythologies, such as this, of all Biblical narratives even when closely paralleled by myths from Persia, Babylonia, Egypt and Greece; and of all hagiological legends. Otherwise, the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology offers a comprehensive and compact Who's Who or Who Was Who of the better known gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, demons, angels and saints from all over the world, including certain Moslem ones. It does not discuss philosophic theory or religious experience, and treats each cult with the same impersonal courtesy.

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#95 - Kirsten Malmkjær - The Linguistics Encyclopedia

Author or Editor: Kirsten Malmkjær
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Pages: 768
Size: 5.6MB

This book has lived through ten successful years. However, no work of reference to a developing discipline can remain at its cutting edge unless it, too, absorbs these developments. So, in this second edition of The Linguistics Encyclopedia, all but a very few entries – mostly those dealing with historical matters – have been extensively revised to take account of new developments in the fields they cover. The material on grammars has been rearranged, and there are brand-new entries on applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics and cross-linguistic studies, and forensic linguistics. In addition, there is a comprehensive, new Introduction to the discipline, written by Tony Howatt from Edinburgh University, a leading authority on the history of linguistics.

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#93 - Leslie Houlden and Peter Byrne - Companion Encyclopedia of Theology

Author or Editor: Leslie Houlden and Peter Byrne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Pages: 1092

The aim of this Companion Encyclopedia is to provide as comprehensive a guide as possible to the present state of Christian theology in its Western academic manifestations and in the setting of the modern world. To understand the present, especially in the case of a long-standing phenomenon like Christianity, it is necessary to be aware of the past. So here there is much history as well as contemporary reflection and assessment.

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#90 - N.E.Collinge - An Encyclopedia of language

Author or Editor: N.E.Collinge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1990
Pages: 558

In the study of language the late 1980s may be seen in retrospect as an era of consolidation. No moderately aware eye will miss the epidemic of encyclopaedias of that time, their didactic sameness masked by a variety of style, even a desperate individuality. Some spread a single topic (say, dialectology) over an ample volume; some report on a kaleidoscope of topics under a summary, not always illuminating, heading (say, grammar). Some are terse and sober lexicons; some, like advertisers, seek their targets with a fine typographic frenzy. All suggest, no doubt involuntarily, that language and its study had for the moment stood still and might, while they caught their breath, conveniently sit for their portrait. And that is not a false picture.

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#2 - Gaëtan Brulotte, John Phillips - Encyclopedia of erotic literature

Author or Editor: Gaëtan Brulotte, John Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Pages: 1612

Erotic literature is a global cultural expression represented in nearly all literary forms from the ancient world to the present. Recognizing its rich scope and cultural importance, scholars from around the world are drawn to the genre and the study of erotic literature is now a vast and emerging field. In these two volumes, the Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature invites the reader to embark on the scholarly exploration of a genre that traverses the horizon of human sexual experience, transforming our understanding of such experience and the experience of literature as well.

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