21st century

Describes the uniforms, gear, and weapons used by U.S. and Iraqi forces during the Iraq War.

A collection of poems and essays by thirty-five female spoken word artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Sarah Jones, Leah Harris, Tracie Morris, and others.

Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to Jupiter to find out what happened to the astronauts of the spaceship Discovery and its computer, HAL 9000.

Discusses many of the influential people, events, and cultural developments of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

A comprehensive overview of world history that describes people, places, and events that occurred between 1991 and the early twenty-first century, including the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States.

Presents a collection of alphabetically arranged entries that provide brief biographical profiles of fifty contemporary figures in entertainment, sports, art, science, business, government, and other news-making arenas and includes black-and-white photos and further reading lists.

Presents alphabetized biographical profiles of more than a hundred contemporary figures in entertainment, sports, science, government, and other news-making arenas, each including black-and-white photos and a further reading list.

This book describes the development of American literature from impressive new novelists, poets, and playwrights emerging after World War II to the postwar drama, literary criticism, and literary biography of the end of the twentieth century.

Recounts events during which, immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a small group of U.S. Special Forces soldiers entered Afghanistan on horseback to capture the city of Mazar-i-Sharif and were ambushed in a battle in which they were outnumbered forty to one.