The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
- ISBN-10
- 0618226478
- ISBN-13
- 9780618226474
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 647
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Authors
- Joseph F. Kett, Eric Donald Hirsch, James S. Trefil
Description
Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
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