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• Author(s): Elizabeth Oakes • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: GeneralEncyclopedia of World Scientists, Updated Edition is a comprehensive reference tool for learning about scientists and their work. It includ...

• Author(s): David Schultz • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: United States - GeneralPraise for the previous edition: "...concise, well-written entries...Schultz's accessible work will be of use to both underg...

• Author(s): Linda S. Watts • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: ReferenceFolklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings, games, rituals, beliefs, and ways of li...

• Author(s): Robert Hendrickson • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyContains definitions and origins of more than 15,000 words and expressions. This encyclopedia features anecdotes and inf...

• Author(s): Gabor Agoston | Bruce Masters • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman EmpireThis encyclopedia provides a thorough overview of the history and civilization of the Ottom...

• Author(s): Matthew Bunson | Matthew Bunson • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: Ancient - Rome

• Author(s): Anthony S. Mercatante | James R. Dow • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: GeneralThis edition boasts approximately 3000 entries, 150 of which are new; a substantially updated bibliography; an overhau...

• Author(s): IV Curtis Edward E. • Publisher: Facts on File • Publisher Imprint: Facts on File • BISAC: United States - GeneralMuslims have long played a central role in American history. Since the colonial period when an estimated 20,000 African...