An international team of experts has joined forces to produce the Bridge Engineering Handbook. They address all facets-the planning, design, inspection, construction, and maintenance of...
Grade 10 Up—This collection of excerpts and essays provides a solid foundation in the history of one of today’s most complex and controversial situations. The...
Paul Bairoch sets the record straight on twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these are that free trade and population growth have historically...
Authoritative yet accessible, the four-volume Encyclopedia of Latin America covers the history and culture of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from early settlements to the present...
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an...
In Religion and World History, distinguished authors John C. Super and Briane K. Turley examine the value of religion for interpreting the human experience in the...
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts...
The first and only encyclopedic set focusing exclusively on this phenomenon, Encyclopedia of Capitalism provides clearly written definitions, descriptions, and explanations of topics and terms...
This book is part of the New Oxford World History, an innovative series that offers readers an informed, lively, and up-to-date history of the world...
The title Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide was chosen for the sake of simplicity and compression, because the book’s scope extends to such topics...
Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today’s Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across...
Praise for the previous edition: Selected as an “Outstanding Reference Source, 2000” RUSA Selected as an “Editors’ Choice Reference Source, 2000” Booklist/RBB “This encyclopedia will remain a...
Teaching English to the World: History, Curriculum, and Practice is a unique collection of English language teaching (ELT) histories, curricula, and personal narratives from non-native speaker...
Details the lives of 260 women of historical importance arranged by their contributions to religion, science, politics, journalism, the performing arts, education, the visual arts,...