encyclopedias

Contains over seven hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about French culture, covering education, film, food and wine, media, music, intellectual life, performing arts, and other topics.

Contains entries that provide information about various aspects of the social, cultural, and political history of the Renaissance, covering the arts, government and military, literature and learning, religion, science and technology, exploration, and society and daily life. Includes maps, charts, definitions, and a chronology.

Presents overviews of sixteen major American social movements, such as the civil rights, women's, gay and lesbian, and global justice movements, describing their histories, doctrines, branches, and goals.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about sixty-eight men and women who were influential in bringing about social change in countries throughout the world; and features profiles of seven organizations also engaged in the struggle. Includes timelines, sidebars, documents, photographs, and sources.

Contains entries that provide information about various aspects of the Korean War, arranged alphabetically from A-to-M, with illustrations and maps.

Provides a discussion of the basic creation myth types, and features entries that look at the creation myths of cultures around the world, arranged alphabetically from Achomawi to Zuni.

A series of alphabetically-arranged entries on the subject of terrorism, discussing political attacks on the United States and U.S. concerns around the world, conflicts in the Middle East, major people and organizations and groups involved in terrorist activities, and more.

Examines the concept of nationalism in which citizens are loyal to their country, looks at the role of nationalism in the history of the United States, and discusses related people, court cases, and events.

Contains an essay, selections of primary source documents, and alphabetically-arranged entries on internationalism from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, focusing largely on the role of the United States in terms of foreign relations, covering major events, leaders, issues, and nations that have received assistance from the U.S.

Examines the concept of industrialism, the growth of manufacturing and technology, looks at the role of industrialism in the history of the United States, and discusses related people, court cases, and events.