Home > Reference > Encyclopedias & Subject Guides
Encyclopedias & Subject Guides
The Dune Encyclopedia by Willis E McNelly
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Willis E McNelly [McNelly, Willis E]

FRIGATE The generic term for the largest spaceships which could land and lift off in one piece from a planetary surface. Although common usage makes it appear that "frigate" means ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 3,2019 )
Crisis in the Red Zone by Richard Preston
epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Richard Preston

NGALIEMA HOSPITAL, KINSHASA Midday, September 27 Ngaliema Hospital sits on a hill overlooking the Congo River at the lower expanse of the great Malebo Pool, a broad, sluggish detention of ...
( Category: Pathology August 2,2019 )
The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters by Leon Claire Metz
epub |eng | 2002-11-01 | Author:Leon Claire Metz [Metz, Leon Claire]

Jesse James (Robert G. McCubbin Collection) When the Civil War ended, Jesse tried to surrender on April 15, 1865, but took a bullet through the lungs as he rode into ...
( Category: United States August 2,2019 )
The Milk Bowl of Feathers by Mary Ann Caws
epub |eng | 2018-09-25 | Author:Mary Ann Caws

Translated by Mary Ann Caws “Vanity, Memory of the Swan,” from Robert Desnos, “The Night of Loveless Nights” (1930). No, Love Is Not Dead No, love is not dead in ...
( Category: European August 2,2019 )
The Diversity Myth by David O Sacks & Peter A Thiel
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:David O Sacks & Peter A Thiel [Sacks, David O & Thiel, Peter A]

Creating Difference In late September of each year, 1,500 eager freshmen descend upon Stanford for a five-day “Freshman Orientation,” to be introduced to their classmates and to campus life more ...
( Category: Minority Studies August 2,2019 )
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4th Ed.) by Chris Baldick
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Chris Baldick

in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...
( Category: Word Lists July 29,2019 )
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Baldick Chris;
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Baldick, Chris;

in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...
( Category: Word Lists July 29,2019 )
A Dictionary of Hinduism by Stutley Margaret;Stutley James; & James Stutley
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stutley, Margaret;Stutley, James; & James Stutley

Notes 1From mṛta, without life, and aṇḍa, an egg. 2This indicates alternating death and regeneration (RV., X.72,8-9). The eighth Āditya is ‘the only one by whom continuity of the cosmic ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore July 20,2019 )
Best Slow and Easy Recipes by Cook's Illustrated
epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Cook's Illustrated

( Category: Casseroles July 20,2019 )
You're the Umpire by Wayne Stewart
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Wayne Stewart

JUSTIN VERLANDER SECTION THREE OBSCURE RULES AND SITUATIONS Ask a dozen umpires what they feel is the most difficult play for them to call correctly and, while you may not ...
( Category: Trivia July 18,2019 )
One Hundred Great Catholic Books by Don Brophy
epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Don Brophy

Earlier in life Delp had earned a degree in philosophy and published a book on Martin Heidegger. He had a large view of things. He took time in his last ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 17,2019 )
Norse Myths by Martin J. Dougherty
epub |eng | 2016-07-13 | Author:Martin J. Dougherty

The Disir and Fylgja The Norse tales contain references to spirits called Disir, whose nature is not clear. It is possible that the Disir are ancestral spirits or perhaps Elves, ...
( Category: War July 14,2019 )
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

There were other tasks to perform. It was he who perused plays submitted for approval by other writers, and it was no doubt his task to revise and generally to ...
( Category: Authors July 14,2019 )
Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henry Gray [Gray, Henry]

6. ARTICULATION OF THE RIBS WITH THE VERTEBRÆ The articulation of the ribs with the vertebral column, may be divided into two sets. 1. Those which connect the heads of ...
( Category: Anatomy July 11,2019 )
Devil Take The Hindmost by Edward Chancellor
epub |eng | 1999-06-03 | Author:Edward Chancellor

THE GILDED A GE • 180 words, the value of one of the world's great railroads derived solely from its attraction as a Wall Street "fancy." Although the markets are ...
( Category: Business July 11,2019 )

First Prev [181] [182] [183] [184] 185 [186] [187] [188] [189] [190] [191] Next Last