Examines literary texts in the times and places in which they were written and took place. The twelve volume set covers a full range of world literature, from Australia to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between.
Volume 1 covers Africa, Asia, and the Middle East; volume 2, Latin and North America, the Caribbean, Asia, India, and the Pacific region. There are discographies at the end of each chapter.
In this two volume set, "The editors intend to provide an understanding of disease and human health, and succeed by combining microbiology and immunology to produce a coherent and understandable encyclopedia." The encyclopedia also contains many biographies of lesser-known scientists.
Extensive five volume work containing critical summary essays of major philosophical works, critiques by modern scholars, and extensive bibliographies for further study.
This edition by the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank, and the World Resources Institute was undertaken to develop recommendations that would safeguard the world's ecosystems.
A 4-volume set which gives information about 500 cultures of the world and covers 20 areas of daily life, including food, clothing, language, and religion.
Focuses on the worship music of English-speaking North Americans. Its over 2,500 entries range across major denominations within Western Christianity, the Byzantine/Slav tradition, and Judaism.
WSSLinks is developed and maintained by The Women's Studies Section (WSS) of the Association of College & Research
Libraries, which discusses, promotes, and supports women's studies
collections and services in academic and research libraries.
E.T.: Dictionary of the Frisian Language, published by the Fryske Akademy, 1984 - . Currently at 21 volumes. A comprehensive Frisian-Dutch dictionary which serves as the language's
principal authority.
