Henry Holt reference book

Four thousand entries covering the people, events, laws, and ideas that have shaped world relations.

Answers questions about animals, past and present, plants and the earth. Including the world of the past, the living world, and our earth.

Colorful photographs and illustrations explain simple scientific concepts using clear, accessible text, full-color art, and a cross-referencing system.

Frances Bissell describes over 1,000 food ingredients and tells how to buy, store, and prepare each one.

Alphabetical listing of important people, places, and events that occurred thoughout the world during the sixty-four year reign of Great Britain's Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901.

From Christine de Pisan's medieval love poetry to Nadine Gordimer's dissection of apartheid, the works of the 135 authors represent the entire spectrum of writing by women from around the world--in poetry, drama, the novel, and short fiction, from antiquity to the end of the twentieth century.