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Inventors & Inventions (Great Lives from History)

Inventors & Inventions (Great Lives from History)


Alvin K. Benson



From This addition to the Great Lives series offers 409 essays covering significant inventors (27 of them female) worldw...
A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts (Facts on File Library of American History)

A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts (Facts on File Library of American History)


Carol Kort, Liz Sonneborn



From Library Journal This current A-Z title is a selective biographical encyclopedia of women artists from the United Sta...
A to Z of American Women Writers (A to Z of Women)

A to Z of American Women Writers (A to Z of Women)


Carol Kort



From School Library Journal YA-Kort provides concise biographical and critical summaries of more than 150 writers and the...
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Dictionary of Scientific Biography (8 Vols))

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Dictionary of Scientific Biography (8 Vols))


Noretta Koertge



From School Library Journal Grade 10 Up—These approximately 740 articles update information found in the Dictionary...
A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists (A to Z of Women)

A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists (A to Z of Women)




A to Z of American Women Leaders and Activists (A to Z of Women)...
Ernest Gruening: Alaska's Greatest Governor

Ernest Gruening: Alaska's Greatest Governor


Claus Naske



About the Author Claus-M. Naske is professor emeritus of history at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He was born in Germ...
Whales, They Give Themselves: Conversations with Harry Brower, Sr. (Oral Biography Series)

Whales, They Give Themselves: Conversations with Harry Brower, Sr. (Oral Biography Series)


Karen Brewster



About the Author Karen Brewster is a research associate in the Oral History Program, Rasmuson Library, University of Alas...
Tom Merton: A Personal Biography

Tom Merton: A Personal Biography


Joan C. Mcdonald



Tom Merton: A Personal Biography...
British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 3 (British Writers Retrospective Supplement)

British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 3 (British Writers Retrospective Supplement)


Jay Parini



British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 3 (British Writers Retrospective Supplement)...
The Russian Century: A Hundred Years of Russian Lives

The Russian Century: A Hundred Years of Russian Lives


George Pahomov



Review The editors undertook the ambitious task of presenting over a hundred years of Russia's history. . . . The chronol...
Plutarch Lives, VII, Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar (Loeb Classical Library No. 99)

Plutarch Lives, VII, Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar (Loeb Classical Library No. 99)


Bernadotte Perrin, Plutarch



Plutarch Lives, VII, Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar (Loeb Classical Library No. 99)...
Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 2

Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 2


Michael Lablanc



Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 2...
Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt

Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt


Arthur Goldschmidt



Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt...
Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 7

Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 7


Michael Lablanc



Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 7...
Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 11

Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 11


Julia Rubiner



Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music: Volume 11...
Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire

Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire


Waldemar Heckel



Review "Stupendously detailed and documented, the fruit of over three decades of research, Waldemar Heckel’s Who&#...
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience


Professor Warren Goldstein



From Publishers Weekly From the mid-20th century until now, Coffin has served as the prophetic conscience of a nation div...
Plutarch's Lives, Volume X: Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus (Loeb Classical Library No. 102)

Plutarch's Lives, Volume X: Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus (Loeb Classical Library No. 102)


Bernadotte Perrin, Plutarch



Plutarch's Lives, Volume X: Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus (Loeb Classical Library No. 102)...
Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union: From the Romanov Dynasty to Vladimir Putin

Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union: From the Romanov Dynasty to Vladimir Putin


John Paxton



Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union: From the Romanov Dynasty to Vladimir Putin...
French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France

French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France


Philip Daileader, Philip Whalen



Review "This book on French historians in the twentieth century with contributions by mostly Anglophone scholars is a del...
Who's Who in Naval History (Who's Who Series,)

Who's Who in Naval History (Who's Who Series,)


Joseph F. Callo



Review 'A timely memorial to what used to be ... it encompasses the grand sweep of more than four centuries of classical na...
American Writers, Supplement XX

American Writers, Supplement XX


Jay Parini



American Writers, Supplement XX...
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through SUI, 1600 B.C.E.--618 C.E. (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications)

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through SUI, 1600 B.C.E.--618 C.E. (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications)


Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, A. D. Stefanowska



Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through SUI, 1600 B.C.E.--618 C.E. (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications)...
Daniel Webster: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of American Notables)

Daniel Webster: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of American Notables)


Harold D. Moser



Review "This exhaustive compilation will probably be the standard Webster bibliography for some time to come. It should b...