Profiles important American ethnic writers from Ai through Lionel G. Garc?a, and discusses the author's major works, and describes how they express their sense of identity through both fiction and nonfiction writings.
Contains over twelve hundred entries on the life and work of influential designers from 1840 through the early twenty-first century, and covers fashion media and terms, photographers, art movements, technical processes, fabrics, and models, with photographs and sketches.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of over ninety thousand words and phrases, translated from Spanish to English and from English to Spanish, and includes pronunciation and grammar guides, Spanish verb tables, and information on the culture of the Spanish-speaking world.
A dictionary of music, featuring over 12,500 alphabetically arranged entries, covering composers, conductors and performers, directors, writers, music journals, musical terms, venues, instruments, and themes.
Contains over 5,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of biological terms and concepts, and includes 150 recommended Web links as well as feature articles.
Provides English to Chinese and Chinese to English translations of ninety thousand words and phrases and includes pronunciations, a writing guide, and a CD-ROM with a talking dictionary and instant translator.
Presents a dictionary in Russian and English with pronunciation keys, hundreds of new words reflecting cultural, political, and technological changes as of 2009, grammar tables with the conjugation and declension of Russian verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and examples.
Explains in detail foreign words and phrases that are regularly encountered in American and British English. Entries cover the date of each word's introduction into English, language of origin, definition, pronunciation, and usage and background. Second edition omits some words found in the first edition and includes others.
