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Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 1192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
Author: David Crystal
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780521567800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present
Author: George A. Cevasco
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1997-12-09
Total Pages: 958
ISBN-13: 0313036497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.
Author: Joan Bakewell
Publisher: Chambers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780550106933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dictionaries of biography.
Author: Francisca de Haan
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2006-01-10
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 6155053723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women’s movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women’s movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian ‘literary feminists,’ Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women’s movements and feminisms.
Author: Yuwu Song
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 1476602980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Though the book is weighted toward political figures, it includes persons in business, the military, academia, medicine, social movements, the arts, entertainment and athletics. In addition to an objective description of the person's life, an analysis is provided that identifies the individual's contributions and importance.
Author: Philip Rees
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2006-04-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0520244494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An important reference source for scholars and students of modern Chinese art, collectors, museums and libraries, dealers and auction houses. It includes biographical entries for approximately 800 Chinese artists who grew up or were trained in China and who are likely to be represented in collections, exhibitions, and auctions within and outside China.
Author: Lance Day
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 1527
ISBN-13: 1134650191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Biographical Dictionary seeks to put the world of technology in the context of those who have made the most important contribution to it. For the first time information has been gathered on the people who have made the most significant advances in technology. From ancient times to the present day, the major inventors, discoverers and entrepreneurs from around the world are profiled, and their contribution to society explained and assessed. Structure The Dictionary presents descriptive and analytical biographies of its subjects in alphabetical order for ease of reference. Each entry provides detailed information on the individual's life, work and relevance to their particular field. * in the first part of the entry, the information will include the dates and places of the subject's birth and death, together with their nationality and their field of activity * in the main body of the entry there follows an account of their principal achievements and their significance in the history of technology, along with full details of appointments and honours * finally an annotated bibliography will direct the reader to the subject's principal writings and publications and to the most important secondary works which the reader can consult for further information. Special Features: * The first work in existence to examine technologists in detail * Contains over 1,500 entries giving detailed information * Extensive cross-references enable the reader to compare subjects and build up a picture of technological advance^ * Figures drawn from fields such as Aeronautics, Telecommunications, Architecture, Photography and Textiles
Author: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Publisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 616
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