encyclopedias

Contains over 1,200 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, and details about over fifty of his films, as well as the television shows he directed.

Presents hundreds of alphabetized entries on films, projects, figures, and topics related to the career of American actor-director Orson Welles.

Presents more than 3,400 alphabetized entries on nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe's life and career, covering all of his major and most of his minor literary works, and includes a chronology, a selected bibliography, and a list of U.S. research collections on the author.

Discusses the life and achievements of Cesar Chavez as a workers' rights activist.

Contains entries that provide information on people, places, events, and objects mentioned in the works of eighteenth-century English novelist Jane Austen; arranged alphabetically from A to L, with an introduction and list of works.

Presents alphabetized, cross-referenced, illustrated entries on Shakespeare's life and texts, and Renaissance England; and includes time lines, sidebars, definitions in page margins, and other features designed especially for younger readers. Covers "Acting Companies, Elizabethan" through "History in Shakespeare's Plays.".

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the life and work of fourteenth-century poet Geoffery Chaucer; and includes cross-references, appendices, a map of the Canterbury pilgrims' route, a bibliography, and an index.

Contains over one hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the significant events, people, publications, movements, and amendments associated with nineteenth-century activist Susan B. Anthony.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide reference information on names, dates, places, weapons, languages, food and drink, and other aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.