Macmillan profiles

Presents biographical and career profiles of over 150 outstanding male and female athletes who compete in autumn and winter sports, including figure skating, ice dancing, skiing, football, basketball, and hockey; arranged alphabetically, with quotations, definitions, and a time line.

An alphabetical collection of articles describing gods, goddesses, monsters, heroes, tall tales, supernatural beings, and legendary people and places from ancient times to the twentieth century.

Alphabetical articles profile the lives of a variety of unsavory characters from Atilla the Hun and the Dalton Gang to Joseph Stalin and Pancho Villa.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and career information about 120 artists who have excelled in the fields of film and still photography, each with quotations, definitions, and a time line.

Profiles 176 African-American women from colonial times through the present; each entry includes a description of the woman's life and times, quotations, definitions, and a time line.

Presents illustrated biographical profiles of 129 woman scientists from throughout history, featuring sidebar chronologies, quotations, and word definitions for each.