Luebering J.E. (editor). The 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time

SAGE Publications, 2009. - 1632 pages. Surveying the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse our present comprehension of time, the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, and creative artists from ancient times to the present. By drawing together into one collection ideas from scholars around the globe and in a wide range of di...

Historical Dictionaries of Europe, No. 46 Lanham, Maryland–Toronto–Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2006 –637 p. This new edition of "The Historical Dictionary" is compiled in a time of slow but steady economic recovery and relative political stability in Bulgaria. It offers better opportunities for a serene assessment of personalities, organizations, and events to be included in a book like this. This dictionary is not intended to diminish the...

Толковый словарь на английском языке по бизнесу и финансам. Encyclopedia of business and finance / Burton S. Kaliski, editor-in-chief. — 2nd ed. 2007 -814 p. Printed in the United States of America Entries are arranged in alphabetical order. The Encyclopedia includes extensive crossreferencing of two types: See and See Also references. See references fall within the body of the work and refer the reader to articles diuscussing that topic. For exa...

Carl Mitcham. The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Thomson Gale, 2005. - 2480 p. The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics has ad multiple origins. It was when contributing an article on the philosophy of technology to the pioneering first edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (1978), that I began to dream of a more general encyclopedic introduction to issues of technology and ethics. Inspired by the perspective of s...

Gale, 1994. - 520 pages. Every volume in the series is comprised of many individual entries, each covering a single product; Volume 1 includes more than 100 entries, arranged alphabetically. Although each entry focuses on the product's manufacturing process, it also provides a wealth of other information: who invented the product or how it has developed, how it works, what materials it is made of, how it is designed, quality control procedures...

Gail, 1998. - 511 pages. In addition to being a guide to the manufacture of more than 100 products, this first volume in a new series devotes roughly equal space to a variety of nonmanufacturing information. A new volume will be published every two years. The eclectic roster of products examined ranges from air bags, aluminum foil, artificial limbs, and aspirin to zippers and zirconium. Included are retail goods as well as intermediate goods use...

Gail, 1999. - 488 pages. Every volume in this series is comprised of many individual entries, each covering a single product. Although each entry focuses on the product's manufacturing process, it also provides a wealth of other information: who invented the product or how it has developed, how it works, what materials are used, how it is designed, quality control procedures, byproducts generated during its manufacture, future applications, and...

Gale, 2000. - 513 pages. Every volume in this series is comprised of many individual entries, each covering a single product. Although each entry focuses on the product's manufacturing process, it also provides a wealth of other information: who invented the product or how it has developed, how it works, what materials are used, how it is designed, quality control procedures, byproducts generated during its manufacture, future applications, and...

Sage Publications, Inc., 2009. - Количество страниц: 2010 p. 2009 RUSA Outstanding Business Reference Business in today's world is increasingly diverse. Undertaking commerce, even by an individual, can mean working globally through a welter of new media with opportunities of all kinds rapidly appearing. The boundaries, scope, content, structures, and processes of a business activity can morph into completely different ones in the course of a pr...

Gail, 2001. - 1500 pages. With much media attention on the energy problems in California and the current debate on U.S. energy policy, this three-volume set is a timely contribution to this subject. This work takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of energy, offering 253 articles representing the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, economics, and ethics. The articles, which range in length from two to 20 pages, were contributed by...