Entries cover the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, literary and artistic history of England, with bibliography listing primary and secondary materials.
Contains overviews, descriptions and one or more reviews of many English language standardized tests of educational skills, personality, psychological traits, and related areas.
In formation since 1870,
the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of
art from all aournd the world, ancient through modern times. About 6,500
objects—highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as
the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of
American Paintings and Sculpture—can be accessed online.
This fifteen volume work covers all invertebrate groups, from protozoa to the invertebrate members of the phyla Chordata, with an emphasis on functional morphology.
The standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in children and adults, from basic science to clinical diagnosis.
The ultimate purpose of the Museum is to acquire the best modern works of art. The collection is comprehensive; included are architecture and design, films and media, drawings, photographs, painting and sculpture, and prints and illustrated books.
This book contains current, complete drug information, with a focus on safe medication administration. This resource features the latest drug information organized alphabetically.
The only comprehensive encyclopedia of English-speaking and noteworthy foreign-language films. Each entry includes basic credits and a synopsis/critique of the film.
A reference handbook in the "Contemporary Education Issues" series.
Provides an overview of approaches to education for a pluralistic
society, an introduction to the historical origins of diversity
education, and explanations of curricular options along with case
studies.
Spans the history of radio, tracing radio's role in the development of journalism, advertising, entertainment, propaganda, popular music, and much more.
The entire MCA Collection contains over 6,000 objects, with works representing trends in art after 1945 in all media including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, film, installations, and artists' books.
Contains some 3,800 references, most briefly annotated, to English-language print resources published mainly since the 1970s, including books and book sections, journal articles, dissertations, and entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
A chronology of musical events from January 1, 1900, to the end of the century, including significant musical documents highlighting interesting themes, a dictionary of terms, and much more.
The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women. The collection is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world.
Written by 1400 experts, this unique encyclopedia has over 1000 peer-reviewed articles covering a wide range of topics, from structural and functional genomics to ethical and social issues.
A comprehensive, three-volume encyclopedia that provides extensive information on plants in the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River valley.
These are thematic volumes which update the old Cambridge History of India (1922- )(3rd floor DS 436 .C22). Each volume of the NCHI has a distinct title, and concludes with an extensive bibliographic essay.
An encyclopedic work with articles on the main ideas and movements of global cultural history from antiquity to the present day. The NDHI focuses not only on the ideas themselves, but also on the cultural environments in which they arose, and their transformations and influence.[To access freely online, scroll down past the entries for "Science Encyclopedia" in the link provided.] One can profitably also consult the entries in the earlier (1973-74) Dictionary of the History of Ideas( online and Ref CB5 .D52), which approaches much of the same subject matter but more from the perspective of examining the history of influential texts.
A 10-volume work which covers the time periods from ancient all the way through modern. Each volume features a different time period in music history, such as Early Middle Ages, Ars Nova and the Renaissance, The Age of Beethoven, and Romanticism.
This 13 volume work is a reprint collection of facsimile articles that appeared in The New York Times between 1896 and 1979. Arranged chronologically, they give a view of film history as it happened.
