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A collection of articles that survey the full scope of Asian history, discussing major historical events and periods from Bronze Age China to modern India, looking at the geography of the continent, profiling over 1,200 influential men and women, and examining aspects of Asian culture and society.

Presents sketches of African leaders, both widely known individuals as well as those rarely profiled. Entries mainly feature political leaders, but also include cultural figures, scientists, and religious personalities.

A visual dictionary of the Old West that focuses on the life of cowboys, western settlers, boomtowns, and the gold rush.

A colorful, illustrated dictionary of a pioneer community that shows different kinds of homes, early transportation, craftspeople and their tools, clothing styles, and farm life.

A colorful, illustrated dictionary of colonial life that covers colonial houses, a plantation and its outbuildings, wood and metalworkers, shops and shopkeepers, and transportation.

Contains over 2,200 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on various aspects of ancient Egypt from the predynastic era to the suicide of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Includes time lines, photographs, and maps.

This German-English/English-German Dictionary has been completely revised and updated. The characteristic, and most important feature of this dictionary is its particular lexical range. When selecting words and phrases which go beyond a broad, general vocabulary, the editors focused their attention on the fields of business, trade and travel, and of course gave due consideration to politics, technology and cultural affairs. The following examples will also make clear the specific aim of this dictionary series: asylum seeker, backpacker, emission-free, hole in the ozone layer, technology, transfer, wheel clamp, schadstofffreri, Technologietransfer, Verbraucherschutz. It is, then, the aim to give practical and useful help to as many people as possible when they communicate with each other in the twenty-first century. Designed for the widest possible variety of uses, this dictionary, with its more than 50,000 references and 100,000 translations, will be of great value to students, teachers, and tourists as well as in home and office libraries.

Contains illustrated definitions about astronomy and space.

Provides information on terms and expressions, catchwords and slogans of American politics and government.