Magill's choice

A guide to American Indian tribes, providing essays on each of the ten North American culture areas, including Arctic, California, Great Basin, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plains, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest, and Subarctic; and featuring 307 alphabetically arranged articles on individual tribes and prehistoric culture traditions.

Provides plot summaries and analyses of 180 major books and series in the science fiction and fantasy genre, arranged alphabetically by title, with an annotated bibliography, lists of major award winners, a time line of book titles, and indexes.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from the 1945 Yalta Conference, to the admission of sixteen new members to the United Nations on December 14, 1955.

Provides plot summaries and analyses of eighty major books and series in the science fiction and fantasy genre, arranged alphabetically by title from "The Man in the High Castle, " to "Zothique, " with an annotated bibliography, lists of major award winners, a time line of book titles, and indexes.

Profiles forty-nine mystery and detective fiction writers, describing their lives and contributions to the genre, analyzing their works, and providing selected primary and secondary bibliographies for each author.

Profiles fifty-one mystery and detective fiction writers, describing their lives and contributions to the genre, analyzing their works, and providing selected primary and secondary bibliographies for each author.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from the Soviet crackdown on Moscow's Helsinki Watch Group in February-March 1977, to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Includes a review of post-1991 developments.

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from Khrushchev's denoucement of the Stalinist regime in 1956, to the formation of a Soviet citizen group to investigate political abuses of psychiatry in 1977.

Contains five appendixes, an annotated bibliography, glossary, a time line of the cases, and categorized lists of the entries, along with a photo index and general subject index.

Contains over 670 articles on court cases, arranged alphabetically by their best-known names, along with essays that examine groups of cases, and provides information on the courts where decisions were made, official citation numbers, dates of the rulings, brief summaries, and related information.