Author : Laura B. Tyle
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780787664756
This volume consists of T-Z entries of notable historic and contemporary figures and includes a cumulative index to the UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Author : Christine Stephanie Nicholls
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780312175689
Contains over ten thousand alphabetically arranged biographies of people from around the world and throughout history who have made significant contributions in a wide variety of fields, and includes photographs, quotations, suggested reading lists, and a chronological index.
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136787445
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author : David Pietrusza
Publisher : Total/Sports Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9781892129345
Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia is the perfect companion to the ultimate classic baseball reference work, Total Baseball. Whereas Total Baseball, now in its sixth edition, lists the statics of every player in major league history, Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia reveals the stories of 2,000 of the national pastime's greatest movers and shakers.
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 1998-04-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780521630993
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers an invaluable Ready Reference section with lists of political leaders and rulers, Nobel Prizewinners, patron saints, sports champions and many more. Acclaimed on its first publication in 1994 as a new kind of biographical reference book, the Encyclopedia is now established as a reliable source of information on over 26,000 people, fully cross-referenced. The book's international coverage and devotion to important figures - both historical and contemporary - in science and the arts as well as sports and popular personalities make it unique. This Second Edition has been comprehensively updated and supplemented with new entries.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780787669034
Presents brief biographical sketches which provide vital statistics as well as information on the importance of the person listed.
Author : William Hyde
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1315440717
From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, princesses, or pirates, the women found in these pages are indeed worth knowing and this volume will introduce many female figures to even the most established scholars in the field. The book is well illustrated and liberally sprinkled with quotations either by or about the women in the text.
