Provides reprints of articles, excerpts from books, addresses on current issues, and studies of social trends in the US and other countries concerning violence in America's schools. The 34 contributi
Suitable for students, journalists, and general readers, this volume examines a variety of urban planning issues of importance, including trends in urban development; urban sprawl; transportation chal
Each year, all profiles and obituaries from the monthly issues of Current Biography are updated and presented alphabetically in a single hardcover volume. Current Biography Yearbook 2010 delivers nea
The entertainment industry discovered a long time ago that huge numbers of people believe in paranormal activities, or are at least fascinated by the idea of them. Scientists and militarists have trie
This volume collects 34 articles from a broad array of mainstream periodical sources that are intended to provide students with a starting point for thinking about the 2010-2011 debate topic of the Na
Part of a series for students that collects material discussing current issues, this volume's theme is the graphic novel and its evolution from "kid stuff" to serious literature. The articles, which f
This reader contains 24 articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals offer illustrations of the ways in which religion informs and collides with social and political practices around the world. T
Collects biographical information on American composers and lyricists, including George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Hank Williams.
One of the first titles in the Reference Shelf 2006 series, this volume compiles 29 articles published from 2001-2005 on global climate change, as well as an annotated list of additional articles that
"Enthuslastically recommended for school, public, and college libraries."---Library Journal"A well-organized, quality resource with an outstanding price. The inclusion of the 2008 National High schoo
Provides accurate, incisive accounts of writers' lives and works, including critical responses and bibliographies. The 317 entries include novelists, playwrights, and poets who have risen to prominenc
Offers biographical sketches of 345 writers' lives and works, including novelists, playwrights, poets, historians, biographers, critics, and philosophers
In this latest volume in a series begun in 1931 with the classic reference, Famous First Facts , the authors mine US political history since the 16th century to unearth some 5,000 entries (but no ill
Part of a series of reference works providing readings in current social and political trends, this volume on recent political upheaval in Arab countries provides a collection of speeches, articles, a
