100 Most Popular Children's Authors: Biographical Sketches by Sharron L. McElmeel

By Sharron L. McElmeel

Scholars can research extra approximately their favourite authors and locate lots of studying fabrics they are going to take pleasure in with this reasonable biographical paintings and ready-reference. that includes a hundred liked and celebrated kid's booklet authors, McElmeel bargains enticing biographical sketches, photographs, and chosen bibliographies and lists of comparable info resources. integrated are such long-time luminaries as Beverly Cleary and Marguerite Henry in addition to many new rising writers. McElmeel's concentration is on modern authors and people whose works are nonetheless in print. A extra present and reasonable replacement to multivolume courses, this e-book is a smart assortment improvement instrument and source for writer reports. scholars will take pleasure in utilizing it for his or her experiences and examine papers.

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Encyclopedia of African-American Literature (Encyclopedia of by Wilfred D Samuels, Loretta Gilchrist Woodard, Tracie Church

By Wilfred D Samuels, Loretta Gilchrist Woodard, Tracie Church Guzzio

An important encyclopedic reference, Encyclopedia of African-American Literature courses readers throughout the wealthy historical past of African-American writing. greater than 500 attractive entries conceal the folk, works, and occasions that experience come to outline African-American literature. This worthwhile source contains such authors as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Gayl Jones, Ralph Ellison, and Gloria Naylor, and significant works resembling A Raisin within the sunlight, local Son, the colour pink, and Invisible guy. those entries are better through bibliographies that aid readers pursue extra study. extra entries contain characters, periodicals, vital anthologies, events, suggestions, and different similar themes. Spanning the colonial interval to the Harlem Renaissance and modernist classes to the Black Aesthetics circulation to the modern age, this publication presents finished assurance of the heritage of African-American literature.

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Lead Poisoning - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and by Icon Health Publications

By Icon Health Publications

This can be a 3-in-1 reference ebook. It supplies an entire clinical dictionary masking enormous quantities of phrases and expressions in terms of lead poisoning. It additionally provides large lists of bibliographic citations. eventually, it presents details to clients on tips on how to replace their wisdom utilizing quite a few web assets. The e-book is designed for physicians, scientific scholars getting ready for Board examinations, scientific researchers, and sufferers who are looking to get to grips with study devoted to lead poisoning. in case your time is effective, this booklet is for you. First, you won't waste time looking the web whereas lacking loads of appropriate info. moment, the e-book additionally saves you time indexing and defining entries. eventually, you won't waste time and cash printing 1000's of websites.

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Crime and Morality: The Significance of Criminal Justice in by J.C. Boutellier, Hans C.J. Boutellier

By J.C. Boutellier, Hans C.J. Boutellier

Over the final twenty-five years the importance of felony justice has dramatically replaced. In a "post-modern" tradition, legal legislation serves an increasing number of as a focus in public morality. The "discovery" of the sufferer of crime should be visible because the marking aspect through which felony justice bought its critical place within the upkeep of social order. it's the results of a common "victimalization" of contemporary morality.

This inventive ebook - based on Michael Tonry - combines insights from criminology, sociology and ethical philosophy. it truly is specifically encouraged via the paintings of Richard Rorty, who stresses the sensibility for ache because the significant resource of morality in post-modern instances. It describes the arousal of awareness for sufferers and the advance of crime prevention. extra particularly, it analyzes baby sexual abuse and prostitution.

This "illuminating" booklet could be an eye-opener for theorists in criminology and ethical philosophy, yet may also be an inspiring paintings for coverage makers within the sector of felony justice.

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Conductive Hearing Loss - A Medical Dictionary, by Icon Health Publications

By Icon Health Publications

In March 2001, the nationwide Institutes of wellbeing and fitness issued the next caution: "The variety of sites supplying health-related assets grows each day. Many websites offer useful info, whereas others can have details that's unreliable or misleading." additionally, a result of swift elevate in Internet-based info, many hours could be wasted looking out, choosing, and printing.This publication was once created for doctors, scholars, and individuals of most people who are looking to behavior scientific study utilizing the main complicated instruments to be had and spending the smallest amount of time doing so.

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Orchestral music : a handbook by David Daniels

By David Daniels

Also on hand: Orchestral tune Online

This fourth variation of the hugely acclaimed, vintage sourcebook for making plans orchestral courses and organizing rehearsals has been improved and revised to add forty two% extra compositions over the 3rd version, with clearer entries and a extra invaluable procedure of appendixes. Compositions disguise the traditional repertoire for American orchestra. beneficial properties from the former variation that experience replaced and new additions include:

· higher actual layout (8.5 x eleven vs. 5.5 x 8.5)
· increased to 6400 entries and virtually 900 composers (only 4200 in third Ed.)
· Merged with the yankee Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library info Service)
· more desirable particular details on woodwind & brass doublings
· Lists of required percussion gear for plenty of works
· New, extra intuitive structure for instrumentation
· extra contents notes and periods of person movements
· Composers' citizenship, beginning and demise dates and locations, built-in into the listings
· Listings of beneficial web content for orchestra execs

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Guide to Reference Materials for School Library Media by Barbara Ripp Safford

By Barbara Ripp Safford

You will discover the simplest, so much cheap, and most suitable reference fabrics on your college library assortment with this consultant. geared up by way of themes inside of large topic different types, the e-book describes and evaluates books, CD-ROMs, and different digital reference assets in all curricular parts and in a few extracurricular parts. greater than 2,000 entries are incorporated, with titles of designated curiosity to uncomplicated faculties famous. Safford's new version stories extra digital resources than prior variations, and it has a brand new part on digital details platforms that describes the shift of assets to around the world Web-based supply. The ebook additionally covers many new and sundry sorts of reference resources showing in print, and the part on assortment administration has been reorganized. a vital software for the varsity library media expert, this publication can be priceless to librarians at two-year faculties, to kid's and younger grownup librarians at public libraries, and to high schools with library and that i

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An Annotated Bibliography on Ibn Sînâ (1970-1989). Including by Jules L. Janssens

By Jules L. Janssens

This Avicenna bibliography, the results of two decades of study, seeks to proceed the paintings began during this area by way of G.C. Anawati. New instances produce new probabilities, and certainly, with the appearance of the pc and inter-library networking, a renewed technique turns into not just available but in addition a necessity.In this bibliography, extra vast and systematic cognizance is paid to non-Western courses, specifically Arabian, persian, Turkish and Russian. Of unique curiosity is the inclusion of a few Indian guides. The guides are ordered in response to a constant thematic department, with cross-references being supplied the place priceless. Separate chapters are devoted to the clinical and clinical contributions, whereas the philosophical works are handled in ten chapters.In all circumstances an advent is supplied which makes an attempt to stipulate either the mediaeval context of Avicenna's suggestion and the particular type of his pondering. targeted recognition is paid to biographical and bibliographical reviews, in addition to to the 'Millenium' of guides that resulted from the Unesco backed 1980 memorial oth the millenium of Avicenna's delivery. eventually, and actually most significantly, an overvieuw is given of the varied variations or translations of Avicenna's paintings, that are pointed out in accordance with the numbering of the vintage bibliographies of G. C. Anawati and M. Mahdavi. just about all guides are annotated with a precis presentation in their most unusual issues and a brief serious evaluation.The textual content therefore serves as a primary orientation for the reader into the richness of Avicenna's legacy. In sum, this bibliography goals at delivering a transparent, concise and accomplished presentation of the fabric, and is therefore an indispensible work-instrument for all destiny Avicenna learn.

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