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By Charles R Geisst

This two-volume, A-to-Z encyclopedia presents unique insurance of America's enterprise historical past, from the Hudson fur exchange to the net. greater than four hundred full of life, informative entries profile company titans and tycoons, Wall highway wizards, leaders, and significant occasions and associations of yankee enterprise - spanning the interval after American independence to the current day. every one access is followed via a brief bibliography and is cross-referenced to comparable entries, permitting readers to pursue the subject extra. An creation deals a normal account of the subject, and a chronology is helping readers position occasions into historic context. chosen fundamental files, a normal bibliography, and an index around out this significant reference. Entries contain American phone & Telegraph; Warren Buffett; the pc undefined; Walt Disney; Thomas Alva Edison; Henry Ford; basic electrical Co.; Howard Hughes, Jr.; foreign company Machines; Steven Jobs; Lehman Brothers; the movie undefined; the hot York inventory alternate; workplace machines; Pan American airways; rail-roads; John D. Rockefeller; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Sears, Roebuck & Co.; slavery; Martha Stewart; the telegraph; United car employees; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Eli Whitney; and extra.

By Susan Ratcliffe

From Martin Amis on Jimmy Connors and Jane Austen on Henry VIII, to Liz Hurley on Marilyn Monroe and Madonna on Eva Peron, listed below are greater than 4,000 quotations approximately either historic and modern figures from world wide. The audio system are in addition referred to as the folks they're conversing approximately, and are available from a wide variety of disciplines and professions, together with actors, architects, dancers, historians, mathematicians, literary figures, politicians, lecturers, activities personalities, and scientists. We learn Margot Fonteyn's compliment of Fred Astaire: "His process is fantastic, but every little thing is finished with the air of somebody sauntering throughout the park on a spring morning." Albert Einstein on Madame Curie: "Very clever yet as chilly as a herring." El Greco on Michaelangelo: "He used to be a very good guy, yet didn't understand how to paint." And Barbara Streisand in safety of invoice Clinton: "We elected a President, now not a Pope." all of the quotations approximately somebody are introduced jointly in an access headed by means of a short description, making it attainable to check what various humans have stated approximately one individual. an in depth writer index provides a context line from each one citation, biographical info on authors, and an outline in their reviews, frequently revealing their personalities. a colourful resource of data on recognized personalities previous and current, humans on humans is an unique learn, ideal for shopping.

By Tim Cooke

The Curriculum Connections sequence units the bar for studying inside a hundred+ pages of studying. Very in-depth, and with alphabetically prepared readings overlaying topics in the U.S. historical past curriculum, those books provide truth bins that determine try issues for simple overview in addition to accomplished timelines and first assets protecting what went on Behnd the combating of the Civil conflict.

By Peter P. Hinks, John Mckivigan

The emergence of a worldly antislavery ideology and the increase of prepared competition to slavery within the Atlantic global within the eighteenth and 19th centuries represented not anything below one of many nice highbrow and social revolutions within the heritage of the realm. an establishment which by means of the early eighteenth century was once close to axiomatically accredited as beneficial, important, and punctiliously in accord with Judaeo-Christian tenets and virtues and which profoundly trained the lives of thousands of individuals had by way of the mid-nineteenth century come more and more to be seen because the leader vector of evil and the satan on the planet, the very quintessence of evil as a few known as it, and the manager repository of all that used to be socially, politically, and particularly economically archaic and stagnant. This encyclopedia is equipped round 3 imperative matters: the representation and explication of a few of the varieties of antislavery and its emergence as an prepared flow; the instant precipitants of abolition and the strategies of its passage; and the enactment of emancipation and its results. whereas the earliest expressions of antislavery can have purely comprised one or a number of remoted voices, the antislavery most ordinarily reviewed here's that lively via a scientific and ardent competition to slavery and meant to mobilize huge numbers of individuals to assault and finish the establishment. a large choice of individuals and firms nurtured and prolonged this antislavery: spiritual figures, political economists, slaves, sailors, artisans, missionaries, planters, captains of slave ships, democratic lovers, and others have been all concerned besides many of the organizations-secular, spiritual, or otherwise-with which they have been linked. Antislavery was once under no circumstances solely or perhaps largely the paintings of an highbrow elite and the strength of all, from the lowly and unlearned to the privileged and famous, is represented. The presence of slavery persisted to be attacked within the contracting Ottoman Empire within the early 20th century, in Liberia within the Thirties, in Saudi Arabia within the mid-twentieth century, or even within the latter years of the century in nations like Sudan, Pakistan, India, and others in Southeast Asia. The entries have a global concentration, protecting antislavery events and critical advancements in slavery abolition and slave emancipation in lots of locations all over the world, together with the next: BLAfrica, Emancipation BLBritish West Indies,Abolition of Slavery BLCentral Asia and Abolition BLGreat Britain, Antislavery BLIndian Subcontinent and Antislavery BLJapan and Antislavery BLLatin the United States, Abolition of Slavery BLMexico and Antislavery BLNorth the US, Antislavery BLWestern Europe, Transition from Slavery to Serfdom different entries hide contributors, teams, occasions, records, and corporations relating to the historical past of abolition and emancipation during the last centuries, together with the next: BLAllen, Richard BLBerlin convention (1885) BLCanning, George BLDominicans and Antislavery BLEquiano, Oloudah BLNew England Antislavery Society BLPointe Coupee insurrection BLSonthonax, Leger Felicite BLUniversal assertion of Human Rights (1948) BLWilberforce, William different entries deal with quite a lot of themes, concerns, and concepts relating to the vast subject of finishing ancient structures of slavery and human bondage, together with the subsequent: BLAncient heart East and Antislavery BLAntislavery Songs BLHelots BLJudaism and Antislavery BLLadies Antislavery Auxiliaries BLMarxism and Antislavery BLRussia and Compensated Emancipation of Serfs BLSeminole Wars, Indian elimination, and Antislavery BLSerfdom and Slavery in Europe BLWorld warfare II, Re-Emergence of Slavery in the course of in addition to over four hundred cross-referenced entries, so much of which finish with lists of extra readings, the encyclopedia additionally comprises an advent tracing the historical past of abolition and emancipation, a particular basic bibliography, a consultant to similar issues, various commence commence TRANSACTION WITH constant photograph; /* 2302 = bc284d2d7bd028dd9a28774e2aabfb68

By Annie Makhoul, Simon Morley

This welcome new source for foreign scholars in paintings, layout, and media presents transparent factors of the terminology they need to grasp so that it will satisfy their educational power and enhance their specialist careers.

• A much-requested new source that fills a niche within the educational market
• Tailored in particular to the wishes of overseas scholars in paintings, layout, and media
• Color-coded key terms and words for fast reference
• Includes sections on learn talents, educational expectancies in Western associations, methodologies, and significant theorists
• An perfect instruction manual for curators and gallery employees far and wide for whom English is a non-native language

By Carl Stephenson

"In the subsequent pages i've got attempted to provide an explanation for, as easily and concisely as attainable, the historic value of the feudal process. . . . My goal has now not been to provide a accomplished description of Europe within the feudal age, or perhaps of feudal society. i've got taken without any consideration that the reader may be accustomed to the most political occasions of the center a long time: the barbarian invasions, the formation of the Carolingian Empire, the institution of the later monarchies, the Crusades, and so forth. i've got passed over all yet cursory point out of the manorial method and the revival of trade . . . . i've got, in different phrases, limited the dialogue to the few associations which may be stated to have constituted feudalism right, or to were chiefly linked to it."—from the Preface

This reprint of the 1st single-volume paintings in English (originally released in 1942) to regard the foundations of feudalism offers a transparent and concise account of the beginning, progress, and rot of the feudal process. specified consciousness is paid to the rules of feudal tenure, chivalry, the army lifetime of the the Aristocracy, and the workings of feudal govt, as illustrated by way of genuine situations.

By OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The 2009 variation of schooling at a look: OECD signs permits international locations to determine themselves within the gentle of alternative international locations functionality. It presents a wealthy, related and up to date array of signs at the functionality of schooling structures and represents the consensus considering on how you can degree the present kingdom of schooling across the world. the symptoms examine who participates in schooling, what's spent on it and the way schooling structures function and on the effects accomplished. The latter contains symptoms on quite a lot of results, from comparisons of scholars functionality in key topic parts to the influence of schooling on profits and on adults probabilities of employment. New fabric during this variation comprises first effects from the OECD educating and studying foreign Survey (TALIS) on instructor practices in addition to instructor appraisal and feedback; an research of the social advantages of education; information on long term unemployment and involuntary part-time paintings between younger adults; a evaluation of traits in attainment; data at the incentives to speculate in schooling which exhibit the advantages of schooling in buck volume throughout OECD international locations; and a photo of excellence in schooling for 15-year-olds, in response to findings from the PISA research. The ExcelTM spreadsheets used to create the tables and charts during this publication can be found through the StatLinks revealed during this publication. The tables and charts, in addition to the whole OECD on-line schooling Database, are freely on hand through the OECD schooling site at www.oecd.org/edu/eag2009. A condensed model of this book can be to be had: Highlights from schooling at a look 2009.

By Yadolah Dodge

The Concise Encyclopedia of information provides the basic information regarding statistical checks, options, and analytical tools in language that's available to practitioners and scholars of the big neighborhood utilizing information in medication, engineering, actual technology, existence technology, social technological know-how, and business/economics. The reference is alphabetically prepared to supply easy accessibility to the elemental instruments of statistical method and biographies of well-known statisticians. The greater than 500 entries contain definitions, heritage, mathematical information, barriers, examples, references, and extra readings. All entries contain cross-references in addition to the foremost citations. The again topic features a timeline of statistical innovations. This reference might be an everlasting source for finding handy overviews approximately this crucial box of analysis.

By Marty C. Flinn, Jennifer B. Flinn

Track in and tone down piano-shopping rigidity. unusual with brands, production tools, fabrics, or cost levels, the piano customer can nonetheless teach himself earlier than making the large funding, saving time, cash, and frustration. this can be the 1st e-book written by way of salespeople that dispels myths and airs soiled methods, making it an easy-to- use buyer’s advisor for the entire renowned, and plenty of of the not-so-well identified, piano versions. •How to choose between new or used, electronic or acoustic, upright, grand, hybrid, or participant pianos •Nearly part 1000000 pianos are bought every year within the usa, with americans spending approximately $1.7 billion a yr on them •Piano technicians and academics require this exact details to dispense recommendation on procuring

By Edward Lucie-Smith

"A richly illustrated paperback that gives important info on quite a lot of artwork and layout heritage, concept and perform … Scholarly but obtainable, and may turn out important to academics and scholars alike."―The instances academic Supplement

What precisely is neoexpressionism? the variation among applique and appliqué? the a part of a urban referred to as the acropolis? or the portray approach known as gouache? during this authoritative and concise dictionary, greater than 2,000 entries embody the sizeable vocabulary of portray and sculpture, structure and images, and the ornamental, utilized, and image arts. the loads of illustrations and diagrams play a necessary position as details: paintings routine turn into instantly recognizable by way of a consultant portray, and the defining gains of every order of structure are identifiable at a glance.

This revised version encompasses a big variety of new entries, together with modern-day influential artist teams and traits from Chicano artwork to gene paintings, and new phrases hooked up with using machine expertise within the paintings global, from electronic picture to pixel. four hundred illustrations