(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Encyclopedia of Judaism explores a tradition that has a 2,000-year recorded history and has been a part of the culture of almost every country and society around the globe. Encapsulating all things Jewish--language, laws, literature, arts, theology, ritual, land, culture, and personalities--this authoritative volume offers readers ba access to Judaism from both a historical and contemporary perspective.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
This new edition of Mary and Henry Garland's classic Oxford Companion to German Literature substantially revises and extends its coverage, making an invaluable reference work available to a new generation of readers. Designed to be a reliable source of information on the whole sweep of literature from German-speaking countries from the eighth century onwards, the Companion now comes right up to the mid-1990s, including such recent works as Gunter...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
This is the most comprehensive and authoritative one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English. It is over 900 pages long, contains 4,000 entries and cross-references, and has been written by an international team of over 380 specialists in all areas of philosophy. It presents, in an accessible manner, the most up-to-date survey of philosophy yet produced by a community of professional philosophers
Author
Series
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Providing Christians with a comprehensive reference volume covering every key issue, person, and concept related to Christian apologetics, this work offers extensive coverage of apologetics with articles on key individuals, philosophical systems and concepts, biblical controversies, contemporary issues, and perennial apologetic arguments. Valuable information and advice are provided for to a wide audience, including pastors and Christian leaders,...
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"The largest association of psychologists in the world - the American Psychological Association - presents the definitive information on the language of the field, including: 25,000 entries offering clear and authoritative definitions; balanced coverage of over 90 subareas across the field of psychology - including clinical, experimental, neuropsychology, cognitive, personality and social, developmental, health, psychopharmacology, methodology and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, readers who flocked to the movies to see An American in Paris or Chicago, lined up for tickets to West Side Story or Rent, or crowded around their TVs to watch Cinderella or High School Musical can finally turn...
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains analyses of the U.S. Presidents and their administrations, from George Washington to George W. Bush, with discussion of each man's rise to power, the problems he confronted in office, and his effect on the institution of the presidency, and includes a chapter on the role of First Ladies in shaping the presidency.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"The Oxford Guide to the United States Government is the ultimate resource for authoritative information on the U.S. Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court, and other federal government agencies. Written by three top scholars, its pages brim with the key figures, events, and structures that have animated U.S. government for more than 200 years." "In addition to coverage of the 2000 Presidential election, this Guide features biographies of all the...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music covers all aspects of both African American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles, as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends. Organized alphabetically to facilitate searching, this encyclopedia also contains many reference tools to aid the user, such as bibliographic and references at the end of entries, a thorough and analytical...
Series
IVP Bible dictionary volume 6
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
Regrettably, while the general populace on both sides of the Atlantic have been exposed to the sensationalism of such projects as the Jesus Seminar and Jesus: The Evidence, no major undertaking has made available to the larger church the representative scholarship of students of Jesus and the Gospels which is both critically responsible and theologically evangelical. The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels has been prepared to meet such needs as these....
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"This book is for people who love Shakespeare, or love language, or both. David Crystal, one of the world's foremost authorities on the English language, with his actor son, Ben, have taken a fresh look at the vocabulary of Shakespeare's poems and plays and compiled a glossary of nearly 14,000 words and meanings. They have included every word which presents the reader with difficulty arising out of the differences between Elizabethan and modern English."...
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This companion volume to Masterpieces of World Literature (1989) highlights the literary achievements of African-American authors from the 18th century to the present with individual articles on 149 major works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Each article contains the important facts and dates of authorship along with analyses of characters, settings, themes, and plots. A unique & vital guide that summarizes, explains, & evaluates the...
.png)