Collins English Dictionary: Reference Edition

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Fire Into Ice follows Charles Fipke in his exotic travels through the fast-paced, cutthroat world of mineral exploration — from the jungles of New Guinea to the savannahs of South Africa to the rainforests of the Amazon to the Arctic tundra. This ...

Drawing from rare archival materials researched over a period of 15 years, preeminent Dewey historian Wayne Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System and scores of other...

Encompassing classical masterworks, popular literature, how-to manuals, the painted self-portrait, and oral as well as written narratives, Lejeune makes a bold case for autobiography as a priveleged source for the understanding of social and cultural...

With Authors and Artists for Young Adults, teens have a source where they can discover fascinating and entertaining facts about the writers, artists, personalities and cartoonists that most interest them. International in scope, each volume contains ...

American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 pro...

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H.W. Wilson's Current Biography Yearbook combines a full year of the monthly magazine Current Biography into a single, permanent record. It has been delivering up-to-date biographies of men and women of contemporary importance since 1940. Current Bio...

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers is a unique and valuable resource for historians and astronomers alike. The two volumes include approximately 1550 biographical sketches on astronomers from antiquity to modern times. It is the collective ...

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is the definitive biographical reference work in Canadian history. "No serious student of Canada's past can function without access to this thorough, balanced and reliable source." R. Hall, Globe and Mail....