Macmillan profiles

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about over 190 male and female athletes who have excelled in the spring and summer sports of baseball, auto racing, golf, tennis, horseracing, boxing, and track and field; each with quotations, definitions, and a time line.

Alphabetical articles profile men and women who have been leaders in many fields, including Arthur Ashe, Amelia Earhart, Andrew Jackson, Helen Keller, Nelson Mandela, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum, among many others.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and career information about the 108 men and women who have served on the United States Supreme Court, each with quotations, definitions, and a time line.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about the lives and accomplishments of 145 notable American artists from all genres; and includes time lines, sidebars, quotations, and other reference tools.

Contains over one hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide descriptions of holidays, rituals, feast days, observances, festivals, and fairs celebrated around the world, including Boxing Day, Christmas, Earth Day, Juneteenth, Purim, Twelfth Night, and many others.

Contains brief biographies for 170 of the most famous monarchs from world history; each entry includes a description of the subject's life and times, quotations, definitions, and a time line.

Contains over one hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about the lives and activities of international civil rights activists, antislavery reformers, human rights advocates, Nobel Peace Prize winners, and philanthropists; and includes timelines, sidebars, quotations, and other reference tools.