From baker to winemaker—navigate your way to a new career.Food and Culinary Arts helps those interested in exploring new careers in these innovative professions. This helpful new guide examines
Maya Angelou is one of the most beloved poets and memoirists alive today. Her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is among the most popular works of nonfiction in the high school curriculum
Alice Walker is one of the few living writers whose work regularly appears in the high school curriculum. While she is known primarily for her best-selling novel and masterpiece The Color Purple, man
J.K. Rowling is one of the most popular authors of all time. Her Harry Potter books are beloved by millions of children and respected by critics of both children's and adult literature. On the other
George Orwell is one of the great writers of the 20th century, famous for his direct and powerful style as well as for his fictional condemnations of totalitarianism.The new Critical Companion to Geo
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Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is one of the most popular American authors in college and high school courses. Her novels, including Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, a
Known for his favorite themes of New England and nature, Robert Frost may well be the most famous American poet of the 20th century. His classic works include the poems "The Road Not Taken," "Stoppin
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The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, "Young Goodman Brown," and "Rappaccini's Daughter" are staples of high school English classes across the country. Nathaniel Hawthorne's works and ch
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Best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists. Born and educated in Ireland, Swift became a politician and clergyman in England, where he wrote
The Irish poet William Butler Yeats is often considered the premier English-language poet of the 20th century, but he was also an important playwright, folklorist, critic, and politician. Yeats's wor
Zora Neale Hurston, one the first great African-American novelists, was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance and an inspiration for future generations of writers. Widely studied in high school li
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Get thousands of facts right at your fingertips with this updated resource.The World AlmanacR and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies so
J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the most popular writers of the 20th century. His two most famous works of fiction, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, have sold hundreds of millions of copies and complete
Provides cultural, historical, and social contexts for the study of English literature, covering leaders, laws, social movements, scientific developments, religious changes, and the details of everyda
The story of early medicine is one of magic and sorcery, religion and prayers, shamans and surgeons, and ingenuity and experimentation. All manner of successes and failures also dot the backdrop of e
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Rich's evolution from published poet to wife and mother to published poet again and thence to feminism and activism runs parallel with what a number of women of the 1950s and 1960s experienced. She e
Most early civilizations were led by a strong ruler who dressed in a dramatic way to display his riches and power. Warriors used weapons and armor to defend their lands, and both men and women used n
Daintith worked as a research chemist at the U. of London and as a research assistant at Oxford U., and has written many articles and compiled and edited a number of books. His reference text is desi
Throughout the world, countries are battling soaring food prices, food-borne illnesses, food shortages and undernourishment, and the detrimental effects of certain farming and manufacturing practices
Discusses the history of African involuntary and voluntary immigration to the United States and covers key issues, including the struggles faced and how the culture influenced Americans.
Offers a brief biography of Thomas Pynchon and discusses the plots, characters, and themes of "The Crying of Lot 49," "V," "Gravity's Rainbow," and "Mason & Dixon."
Covering innovations in science, the arts, developments in industry, political and economic developments, contributions by women and African Americans, and much more, this year-by-year chronology of
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The BP oil spill and other recent catastrophic environmental disasters have received attention in the popular media and provoked controversy at a local, national, and sometimes international level. Ye
Studying the cell helps us improve our understanding of the living world, plant and animal physiology, genetics, and biochemistry. This wealth of information has revolutionized the biological and med
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature includes more than 500 engaging entries on important works and writers, as well as thematic and contextual entries on movements, publications, ideas, and m
The cultural and territorial clash between Native Americans and European settlers represents a significant and tragic chapter in the history of the United States. Prior to European contact, Native Am
Some of the most significant and potentially devastating dangers to human and animal life come from sources we cannot see without the help of microscopes. Viruses, bacteria, and other microorganisms
