dictionaries

Contains over three hundred alphabetically-arranged entries that provide definitions and historical background for key concepts and words used in constitutions around the world.

Over 2000 legal terms are defined, often with illustrative examples and guides to pronunciation.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of thirty-nine twentieth-century Latin American writers; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.

Contains twenty-three alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about American novelists who have made significant contributions to the body of post-World War II literature; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.

Contains Swahili words with English definitions.

Profiles more than thirty Caribbean and Black African writers of the twentieth century, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information on people, legislation, military operations, and controversies related to American participation in the Vietnam War, focusing on the years between 1945 and 1975; each with references and cross-references.

Contains twenty-three alphabetically arranged essays that provide biographical and critical information about Elizabethan dramatists and their works; each with a bibliography.