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Covers prominent individuals from colonial times through the present, offering a fascinating perspective on important women from U.S. history.

This brand-new series provides valuable insight into the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of nearly every nation around the globe. With nine comprehensive, up-to-date volumes spanning every major world region, this in-depth reference source is one of the most thorough compilations of its kind.

This is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in English Novelists discuss such influential writers as Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Lewis Carroll, and Virginia Woolf.

Over the last twenty years, J.K. Rowling has captured the hearts and imaginations of readers around the world with her Harry Potter series, an adventurous tale of a young wizard's coming of age. In the course of seven books, this epic fantasy saga tells the story of Harry Potter, a boy wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Territories in the Middle East and on the northern part of the African continent are covered in this volume. Includes profiles of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestie, Qatar, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

This is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Science Fiction Novelists discuss such influential writers as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury.

This is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Russian Novelists discuss such influential writers as Vassily Aksyonov, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Pushkin, and Leo Tolstoy.

This is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Naturalist Novelists discuss such influential writers as Stephen Crane, Thomas Hardy, Jack London, and John Steinbeck.

This is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Latin American Novelists discuss such influential writers as Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Manuel Puig, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

This is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Irish Novelists discuss such influential writers as Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Edna O'Brien and Oscar Wilde.

This is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Gothic Novelists discuss such influential writers as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Rice, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Provides students and researchers new insights into the 1950s in the US, through an in-depth analysis of forty important primary source documents and their lasting effect on American history. Coverage include the Korean war and the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism and the cold war, the beginning of the space race, baby boomers and suburban growth and much more.

Explores the full history of immigration issues in America, from those early immigrants making their way through Ellis Island, to immigration issues in modern society. With in-depth analysis of a broad range of documents, researchers come away with fresh understanding and insight to study this hot button topic.

This important resource provides readers with many new ways to explore the 1930s in American history, as the country was immersed in the Great Depression. The text provides in-depth analysis of forty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of this important time in American history.

Introduces literary contexts as they apply to American short fiction from the late 10th century to the present, offering high school and undergraduate students a working foundation of literary context designed to prepare them for more critical literary analysis. This volume includes discussion of 39 works of short fiction.

Introduces literary contexts as they apply to American novels written post 1960, by American and Canadian authors, offering high school and undergraduate students a working foundation of literary context designed to prepare them for more critical literary analysis. This volume includes discussion of 36 novels.

A supplement to Salem Press' Careers in Science series, a career-focused series exploring the fields and occupations of physics, chemistry, and other sciences with an emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) occupations and outlooks, Contemporary Biographies in Physics is a collection of biographies of "living leaders" in the field of physics.

Two to five-page articles arranged alphabetically, cover a wide range of civil rights topics, from abolition to AIDS to Propostion 209. Appendices include biographies of 80 notable African Americans, a timeline that stretches from 1619-1998, a copy of the US Constitution and a 20-page bibliography.