Magill's choice

A collection of nearly 200 alphabetically-arranged essays that examines issues surrounding immigration and U.S. immigration policies including border control, demographics, discrimination, language and education, illegal immigration, and stereotypes.

Presents one hundred twenty-two alphabetically-arranged essays in a three-volume set that features major Latino novelists, poets, playwrights, and short-story writers, and contains brief profiles, the author's nationality and major genre, and summary of the author's literary career.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about 195 twentieth-century inventions, from simple gadgets to complex medical breakthroughs, and features biographical profiles of some of the inventors. Includes a time line, a list of topics by category, and an index.

Contains 140 articles that provide information about various aspects of the solar system and deep-space astronomy, arranged alphabetically from antimatter to x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; and includes a glossary, a categorized list of essays, and a subject index.

Contains 124 essays about the most influential government and political leaders in the United States history, including all the American presidents through Bill Clinton.

A collection of alphabetically arranged articles that survey the lives and works of 102 authors of short fiction, focusing on writers of the modern short story; each with a list of the author's publications in other genres, and an annotated bibliography.

Contains chronologically arranged articles that provide information on 134 individual incidents of human rights violations throughout the world, covering events from 1903 to 2001, and includes illustrations, bibliographies, and five indexes.

Contains entries that document eighty-eight of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science, arranged alphabetically from A to Glo, and includes biographical sidebars on the people behind the discoveries, charts, diagrams, and drawings.

Presents volume one of a three-volume set that contains a biographical study from A to Gla of important playwrights that reflects the development of drama from ancient Greece and Rome to the American, European, Asian, and African writers of the twentieth century.

Profiles one hundred 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.