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A comprehensive, one-volume desk reference created in cooperation with Encyclopædia Britannica®. Features more than 25,000 informative and enlightening articles, over 1,250 photographs, and 350 maps, diagrams, and tables. Includes pronunciations.
Contains 3,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the world's religions; features thirty in-depth discussions of major religions; and includes illustrations and maps.
A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.
A biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
The most accurate and authoritative dictionary with 30 subject-specific reference guides, more than 200,000 entries, definitions, facts, and figures, and 32 up-to-date full-color maps of the world. Available in hardcover and paperback! Over 400,000 sold!
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for information on the people, places, and events of yesterday and today. Students, teachers, and librarians can find fast facts combined with the quality and accuracy that have made Britannica the brand to trust. A tool for both the classroom and the library, no other desk reference can compare.
No composer was more controversial, prolific, or more misunderstood than John Cage (1912-1992). No critic has spent more years defending Cage and his work than Richard Kostelanetz. This work summarizes a lifetime's study of Cage's music, literary works, art, and philosophy. It both introduces Cage to the neophyte and offers valuable insights for the seasoned listener.
A concise guide to the essential language of medicine. More than 35,000 entries. Pronunciations provided for all entries. Covers brand names and generic equivalents of common drugs.
