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Dictionary of World Biography
By Frank Northen Magill, Steve Seddon, Alison Aves
Concise biographical information on outstanding people from the ancient world to current times, providing a look at their early life, life's work, and summary of achievements; v.
Magill's Legal Guide: Prison system-Zoning laws
By Timothy L. Hall
Wolk , Stuart R. , and William J. Luddy , Jr. Legal Aspects of Computer Use . Englewood Cliffs , N.J . ... J. Simpson Trial : What It Shows Us About Our Legal System . ... Reason and Passion : Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence .
Censorship: Abelard, Peter-Front, The
By R. Kent Rasmussen
Saint Thomas Aquinas , a thirteenth century Benedictine ( later a Dominican ) monk , studied Aristotle in order to grasp the validity and the limits of ... Armbands became very visible in the United States with the passing of Roe v .
Women's Issues
By Margaret McFadden
Still another variation on the theme of creating a double is found in Dickinson's work : She turned herself into a madwoman in the attic , aided by costumes and other accoutrements . In the last chapter of their book , Gilbert and ...
Women's Issues
By Margaret McFadden
Rutherford encouraged her to go to the Cavendish Laboratory , then directed by Sir J. J. Thomson , who was receptive to female students , having married one himself . ( Mrs. Thomson , however , discontinued her studies in favor of ...
The Nineties in America
By Milton Berman, Tracy Irons-Georges
The Gulf War, dot-coms, impeachment, grunge, Y2K--the 1990's were a time of both optimism and conflict, hope and worry.
The Thirties in America: Psychology and psychiatry-Zangara, Giuseppe
By Thomas Tandy Lewis
A three volume set featuring alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on important people, places, events, developments, and things that shaped America during the 1930s.
Great Lives from History: African Americans
By Carl Leon Bankston
Features 800 essays covering people from the eighteenth century through to the early twenty-first century. The majority of the individuals included in this set have never been covered in this series before.
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
By Keith Newlin
Collects essays that examine the author's quintessential work, and includes a brief biography of the author and a chronology of his writing career.
Magill's Medical Guide: Health and Illness
By Salem Press, Nancy A. Piotrowski
CARDIOLOGY , PEDIATRIC The main goals of therapy for cardiac arrhythmias are to improve heart function and to prevent ... In emergencies , oxygen is given , in severe cases by inserting a breathing ... Mayo Clinic Family Health Book .
Great Athletes
By Rafer Johnson
Charging Through the AFL : Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers ' Football in the 1960's . Nashville , Tenn .: Turner , 2004 . Yaeger , Don , and Mark Mravic . " Card Fable . " Sports Illustrated 92 , no . 4 ( January 31 , 2000 ) : 30 .
Critical Survey of Short Fiction
By Frank Northen Magill, Charles Edward May
... Horla and Other Stories , 1903 ) Le Rosier de Madame Husson , 1888 L'Inutile Beauté , 1890 ( Useless Beauty and Other ... they explore universal themes such as the horrors of war and the fear of death , hypocrisy , the search for ...
The Harry Potter Series
By Lana A. Whited, M. Katherine Grimes
Salem Press is proud to present another addition to itsCritical Insights Series. This volume provides fourteen insightful essays that dig deep at the heart of the Harry Potter series, author J.K. Rowling's fantastical magnum opus.
Encyclopedia of Flight
By Tracy Irons-Georges
Amelia Earhart was famous for her record - setting nonstop flights throughout the 1920's and 1930's . ... The flight was sponsored by Amy Phipps Guest , an American flying enthusiast living in London who had bought the explorer Admiral ...
Encyclopedia of American Government
By Ed Joseph M Bessette
Contains two hundred alphabetically arranged articles discussing subjects important to American government.
American Indians
By Harvey Markowitz
This fully illustrated reference work examines American Indian history and culture during the formation of the US and Canada, and the history and customs of their presence on the North American continent dating back to ancient times. 1,129 ...
Critical Survey of Poetry: American poets (pt. 1-4)

A comprehensive resource offers essays on more than eight hundred historical and present-day poets, including technical analyses of specific works and discussion of literary movements throughout history.
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
By Janet McCann
Attempts to separate them critically have not been successful. This volume consists of essays about The Bell Jar. Essays discuss how the novel reflected the time in which it was written and on the critical reception of the novel.
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
By Frank Northen Magill, A. J. Sobczak, Janet Alice Long
"This 'edition combines the characters profiled in Cyclopedias of Literary Characters (1963) and Literary Characters II (1990). It also includes all characters that appeared in more recent works of Masterplots...
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1992: A Survey of the Films of 1991
By Frank N. Magill
Magill's Cinema Annual, 1992: A Survey of the Films of 1991