Magill's choice

Presents essays on 281 alphabetically arranged court cases that show how the Bill of Rights has been defined and extended up to June of 2001, and also contains reference tools including a table of the justices' notable stances, a time line, a glossary, and a bibliography.

Contains essays on the Bill of Rights, covering its history and significance, each of its amendments, and eighty-one issues it affects, and also contains the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and all of its amendments.

Contains 315 alphabetically arranged essays that explore aspects of Greek history and culture from its earliest archaeological remains to 31 B.C.E., covering art, daily life, education, government, language and literature, religion, science, mythology, the military, entertainment, warfare, and other topics, and including biographical profiles.

Contains essays that explain the historic and legal contexts in which American courts operate and provide overviews of the Anglo-American legal systems, law, the US Constitution, judicial review, and related topics.

Contains fifty-nine essays that provide an introduction to geography and examine basic concepts and issues in the field, grouped in six general categories, including the nature of geography, biogeography and natural resources, and physical, human, political, and political geography.

Presents descriptive overviews of over one hundred major works of Holocaust literature, focusing on nonfiction but also including fiction, poetry, and drama; and contains a Holocaust chronology, a partial list of Nazi concentration camps, a bibliography of more than two hundred additional works on the Holocaust, and a list of related Web sites.

The third of the three volume set ; a comprehensive survey of over 200 U.S. heroes from the American Revolution through today, in all areas of achievment.

Volume 2 of a three volume set ; A comprehensive survey of over 200 U.S. heroes from the American Revolution through today, in all areas of achievement.