Author : David Crystal
Publisher :
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521567800
Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present
Author : Roger K. Newman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0300113005
This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
Author : Francisca de Haan
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 6155053723
This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women’s movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women’s movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian ‘literary feminists,’ Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women’s movements and feminisms.
Author : Joan Bakewell
Publisher : Chambers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780550106933
Dictionaries of biography.
Author : Philip Arestis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843761396
Annotation.
Author : Peter Clive
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1461722802
As an influential and well-connected composer, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) had encountered, befriended, and collaborated with hundreds of people over his significant career. In Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary, author Peter Clive provides extensive and up-to-date information on the composer's personal and professional association with some 430 persons. These persons include relatives, friends, acquaintances, and physicians; fellow musicians and composers whom Brahms particularly admired and in the editions of whose works he was involved; conductors, instrumentalists, and singers who took part in notable or first performances of his works; poets whose texts he set to music; publishers and artists; and even the rulers of certain German states with whom he had significant contact. Offering information not usually available in Brahms biographies, this volume combines findings from both primary and secondary sources, giving insights into Brahms' character, his life, and his career, and shedding light on the educated middle and upper class culture of the nineteenth century. A comprehensive chronology of Brahms' life, a bibliography, and two indexes round out this important reference guide.
Author : C. D. Rose
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 161219379X
A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.
Author : Philip Rees
Publisher : New York : Simon & Schuster
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Yuwu Song
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476602980
This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Though the book is weighted toward political figures, it includes persons in business, the military, academia, medicine, social movements, the arts, entertainment and athletics. In addition to an objective description of the person's life, an analysis is provided that identifies the individual's contributions and importance.
