Search results for “[Subject: dictionaries]”

• Author(s): James Stuart Olson • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralThe focus of this historical dictionary is the deepening US military and political involvement in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia during the decades...

• Author(s): John O'Loughlin • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis dictionary is the very first to cover the whole span of geopolitics from 1870 to the present. The editor and the con...

• Author(s): Robert H. Winthrop • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe field of cultural anthropology describes and interprets the thought and behavior of contemporary and near-conte...

• Author(s): John E. Findling • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralOverall this is an outstanding compilation and one likely to be frequently consulted by students of American diplomacy. ...

• Author(s): Edwin Leung • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralAn important contribution to the reference literature on China, this historical dictionary covers the entire revolutionary period in China. Although ex...

• Author(s): Harry E. Eiss • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Physics - GeneralMathematical play has challenged and stimulated human ingenuity throughout recorded history. It has ranged from the common sorts of brain t...

• Author(s): David Shavit • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralThis historical dictionary brings together information about the people, institutions, and events that brought the United States in contact with the M...

• Author(s): Jon E. Roeckelein • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: ReferenceFully cross-referenced and source-referenced, this dictionary contains over 1200 entries consisting of terms concerning laws, theories, hypothe...

• Author(s): Behrooz Kalantari • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationComplementing texts that introduce students to the major theories of public administration, this biographical diction...

• Author(s): Richard a. Garcia • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Minority StudiesU.S. Latinos have made important contributions to American society, and this biographical dictionary is devoted to celebrating those con...

• Author(s): Charles Bright • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThis historical dictionary is the first of its kind on the U.S. Air Force and antecedent organizations. The reference is bas...

• Author(s): David L. Porter • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Biography & Autobiography - Sports & RecreationAfrican-American athletes have played a significant role in the development and popularity of Ameri...

• Author(s): Marina Braun • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: ReferenceThis English-Russian legal dictionary covers the most frequently used criminal law terminology and court-related words and expressions. The terms ar...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social

• Author(s): Richard Trahair • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralThis reference provides a detailed listing of eponyms in the social sciences, along with entries for some toponyms. The work includes terms from a ...

• Author(s): Robert Dean Craig • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Comparative ReligionPrior to 1500 A.D. the Polynesians were the most widely spread people on earth, having settled an area of the Pacific, the Polynesia...

• Author(s): Stephen L. Smith • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralThe obvious audience for this book is professionals, scholars, and students in the recreation field. However, many of these entries relate to othe...

• Author(s): Serafin Mendez-Mendez • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis is the first major biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to celebrating Caribbeans and Caribbean A...

• Author(s): Robert L. Gale • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyFrom a vantage point 100 years later, one can look back on the excitement and ferment of a turbulent decade and find the seeds ...

• Author(s): Allen L. Woll • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Popular CultureDocumentation for approximately three hundred shows, from A Trip to Coontown (1898) to 1981's Dreamgirls, is provided in part I. The title of...

• Author(s): Clark A. Elliott • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralThis tool fills an important gap for all science collections. Choice

• Author(s): Becky Mulvaney • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Folk & TribalA combination dictionary and annotated discography, videography and bibliography, this sourcebook brings together listings of materials on...

• Author(s): Ronald Grele • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: HistoriographyThis volume marks the transformation of the International Journal of Oral History from a journal publication to an annual. The objective of the...

• Author(s): Jerold Zwirn • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThis much revised and expanded edition guides researchers to sources that provide information about the general and specific subj...