Category: Encyclopedias

By Alan E. Comyns

This reference presents concise descriptions of these chemical approaches which are identified by means of unique names which aren't visible or self-explanatory. Containing 2,600 entries, this moment variation comprises info at the many new techniques constructed and commercialized, in addition to new info on previous processes.Encyclopedic Dictionary of Named techniques in Chemical know-how offers a heterogeneous number of names- inventors, businesses, associations, locations, acronyms, abbreviations, and noticeable corruptions-of the chemical nomenclature. the writer has adapted the entries to mirror value and topicality. quite often, the strategies in present use have the longest entries, notwithstanding, he additionally devotes extra space to a few out of date approaches that carry specific technical curiosity or old significance.The appendix is an index to product names, allowing readers to spot tactics used for making specific items.

By Amy Louise Wood

A lot of the violence that has been linked to the U.S. has had specific salience for the South, from its excessive murder premiums, or its bloody heritage of racial clash, to southerners' well known attachment to weapons and conventional help for capital punishment. With over ninety five entries, this quantity of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the main major types and plenty of of the main harrowing incidences of violence that experience plagued southern society during the last three hundred years.

Following a close evaluation through editor Amy wooden, the amount explores a variety of issues, reminiscent of violence opposed to and between American Indians, exertions violence, arson, violence and reminiscence, suicide, and anti-abortion violence. Taken jointly, those entries develop our figuring out of what has pushed southerners of assorted sessions and numerous ethnicities to devote acts of violence, whereas addressing the ways that southerners have conceptualized that violence, replied to it, or resisted it. This quantity enriches our knowing of the tradition of violence and its effect on principles approximately legislations and crime, approximately ancient culture and social switch, and approximately race and gender--not purely within the South yet within the kingdom as a whole.

By Sharon Henderson Callahan

This 2-volume set inside of The SAGE Reference sequence on management tackles matters correct to management within the realm of faith. It explores such issues because the contexts during which spiritual leaders circulate, management in groups of religion, management as taught in theological schooling and coaching, spiritual management impacting social switch and social justice, and extra. subject matters are tested from a number of views, traditions, and faiths.

Features & Benefits:

• By concentrating on key subject matters with a hundred short chapters, we offer scholars with extra intensity than ordinarily present in encyclopedia entries yet with much less jargon or density than the common magazine article or study guide chapter.
• Signed chapters are written in language and magnificence that's widely accessible.
• Each bankruptcy is by means of a quick bibliography and additional readings to steer scholars to resources for extra in-depth exploration of their learn journeys.
• A specific index, cross-references among chapters, and a web model increase accessibility for state-of-the-art pupil audience.

By Penny Smith

Ever questioned how your physique manages to stick upright or what occurs on your nutrition once you have eaten? good, ask yourself not more - the DK Human physique Encyclopedia has the entire solutions and extra. research all approximately what is going on inside of your physique - from the pumping energy of your center, to the remarkable skill of the mind. you are going to by no means examine your self within the comparable means back!

By Bard A.J., Stratmann M., Schafer H.J.

Writing for execs in addition to scholars, editors Schafer (chemistry, U. of Munster), Bard (chemistry, U. of Texas at Austin), Stratmann (corrosive technological know-how and floor engineering, U, of Erlangen) and members research a variety of subject matters in the box of natural electrochemistry, together with learn on purposes in different fields resembling inorganic and natural compounds and organic platforms. Article issues comprise ways to examine mechanisms of electroorganic reactions; functional features of preparative scale electrolysis; comparisons of chemical and electrochemical equipment in natural synthesis; catholic reactions of hydrocarbons, olefins, and fragrant compounds; anodic reactions of alkanes, alkenes, and fragrant compounds; oxidation (and aid) of oxygen-containing compounds, and of halogen-containing compounds; electrochemistry of nitrogen-containing compounds; electrosynthesis of ordinary items, superb chemical substances, and prescribed drugs; electrochemistry of heterocycles; selectivity in electrochemical reactions; electrogenerated acids and bases; oblique electrochemical reactions; and carrying out polymers.

By K. Michael Gaschnitz

This reference paintings, up to date because the 1997 variation, presents entire info at the significant specialist leagues in North America--baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey and football. prepared chronologically, the entries for every league in each one activity contain person statistical leaders, championship effects, significant ideas adjustments, winners of significant awards, and corridor of status inductees.

By Michael Lipton

Land reforms are legislation which are meant, and sure, to chop poverty via elevating the poor's proportion of land rights. That increases questions on estate rights as outdated as ethical philosophy, and problems with potency and equity that dominate coverage from Bolivia to Nepal. This publication builds on a few findings in land reforms in constructing nations.

By Annie Davis

By Luke Roman

Greek and Roman mythology has interested humans for greater than millennia, and its impression on cultures all through Europe, the US, North Africa, and the center East attests to the common charm of the tales. This identify examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology including the nice works of vintage literature.

By Charles P. Mitchell

Because the early days of silent movie, essentially the most memorable video clips made were those who have faced and explored such tough social matters as poverty or racism. Librarians and educators?€”as good as cultural historians, scholars and cinemaphiles?€” will locate this e-book a helpful source for analyzing motion pictures and the way they replicate and touch upon the most important problems with our time. This really good filmography first identifies and discusses twenty very important social matters that experience recurred in motion pictures through the years. as well as the flicks critiqued right here, different comparable titles are indexed below every one subject. The a hundred movies mentioned during this quantity, provided alphabetically in typical reference layout, hide a large spectrum of movie views and genres. a few of the motion pictures are American made, others are ecu, all are English language. every one movie access identifies the trendy social subject or topics and offers complete credits details, together with the foremost actors concerned. The evaluation part, which in short describes why the movie used to be chosen, is via a concise plot synopsis. eventually the critique offers pertinent heritage details, observation, research and evaluation.This filmography can be invaluable either as reference device for library movie research collections and for video assortment improvement. Educators will locate it priceless for incorporating movie into the language arts and social curriculum, rather for instructing thematic devices and built-in reports. the amount is easily equipped, the entries expertly written in transparent but energetic language, and the reviews attention-grabbing and insightful.