Magill's choice

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information about 111 of the key global leaders of the twentieth century, providing facts about their early lives and the environments in which they were raised, accounts of the periods in which they made their most significant contributions, and overviews of their places in history.

Presents alphabetically arranged articles on the fundamental issues and concepts in fourteen fields of sociology, including culture, deviance and social control, and social stratification. This volume covers "Anomie and Deviance" through "Microsociology.".

Contains essays that provide information about economics subjects, covering monetary and fiscal theory, growth and development, labor and population, quantitative methods, advertising, and general, industrial, international, welfare, and resource economics; arranged alphabetically from A-to-Inv.

Contains articles that provide biographical and critical information about thirty-eight of the world's best-known poets, including English and foreign-language writers; covering a period that ranges from antiquity to the late twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically from Akhmatova to Herbert.