Current Biography Monthly (2020 Subscription)
H.W. Wilson's Current Biography, the monthly magazine, has been delivering up-to-date biographies of men and women of contemporary importance since 1940. The magazine is renowned for its unfailing accuracy, insightful selection and the wide scope of influence of its subjects.
Current Biog Intl Yearbk 2007 (Current Biography International Yearbook)
In ""On Literary Biography"", John Updike lays out his skeptical, yet generous, reflections on reading and writing about the lives of literary figures. Asking what satisfactions literary biography may offer readers, he decides that ""the first and perhaps the most worthy"" is in allowing us to continue and expand our acquaintance with an author who interests us, so that we may ""partake again, from another angle, of the joys we have experienced within the author's oeuvre"". He tells of finding i...
In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity. Faulkner traces a network of connections that bind together filmmakers (employers) and composers (employees) and reveals how work is allocated among composers and the division of labor within the Hollywood film community,...
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, #95)
by Juliet Byington
A convenient source of commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed poets, novelists, short story writers, dramatists and philosophers who died between 1800 and 1899. Cumulative title, author, nationality and topic indexes are provided.
Who's Who of Southern Africa 2005 (Who's Who of Southern Africa)
by 98ed
Notizbuch für Notare / Notar / Notarin
by S_design Notar Notiz-Bucher
Abu Raihan Biruni (973 - 1053 CE) was an Iranian scholar whose extraordinary achievements include predicting the existence of landmasses (North and South America) on the opposite side of the Earth and calculating the radius of the Earth five centuries before the European Renaissance. For the first time, the complete list of Biruni's numerous books on cartography, mathematics, astronomy, history, and geology is provided in a single volume. Divided into five parts, the book provides general backg...
A Brown Paper Parcel is based on true life. It tells of a young six year old girl, who is sent to live with her grandparents after her mother becomes ill. For many years she believes her mother will return to her, but as the years go by and things slowly start to unfold, it becomes obvious that her mother is never coming back.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series (Contemporary Authors New Revision, #257)
Find biographical information on more than 130,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, contact information, career history, writings, biographical and cr
African-American Religious Leaders (A to Z of African Americans)
by Nathan Aaseng
Religion and spirituality have been key elements of African-American life since the earliest days of the slave trade, when they helped to keep alive the flame of human dignity of enslaved people living under the most oppressive conditions. For many decades, spiritual convictions were the driving force behind many successful African-American pioneers and were important forces holding families together against the disruptive forces of society. In more recent times, African-American religious leade...
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, #308)
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all sorts -- novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, philosophers, political leaders, scientists, mathematicians and writers from other genres