encyclopedias

Examines the concept of federalism, a system in which powers are shared between state and federal governments, looks at the role of federalism in the history of the United States, and discusses related people, court cases, and events.

Examines the concept of expansionism, a belief in America's need to expand the territory of the country and spread democracy, the English language, and American culture around the world, looks at the role of expansionism 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 colonialism with regard to the history of the United States, focusing on key figures, events, and issues pertaining to topics such as economics and trade; European nations; explorers and conquerors; Native Americans; religion; and wars and battles.

Offers detailed comparative essays on major biomes and their component ecosystems. Includes entries on land biomes and water biomes and covers climate, elevation, soil, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, food web, etc.

A food and cooking reference that features alphabetically arranged entries which provide definitions of food terms, descriptions of equipment and cooking techniques, biographies, more than four hundred reportage photographs, over 3,800 recipes, and information on the history of foods, eating, ingredients, and restaurants.

Contains more than 240 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on figures, events, influences, and other topics in the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contains nearly six hundred cross-referenced entries that provide information on the history and development of computer science and technology, which includes blogging, file-sharing networks, data mining, portable media devices, quantum computing, and more.

Presents volume one of a five-volume set that covers the history of art from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Bronze and Iron Age art, Aegean, Archaic Greek, and Classical Greek art, and Hellenistic and Etruscan art.

Presents alphabetically arranged entries, from A-G, on fundamental concepts, principles, theories, sub-disciplines, biographies, common methods, and techniques relevant to life sciences, with historical perspectives on the scientists who contribute to the field.

Contains entries that provide information about the science and technology of global warming, discussing climate and weather, human health, greenhouse gases, the hydrological cycle, ice melt, oceans and seas, people, plants and animals, regional effects, politics and economics, scientific issues, and solutions; arranged alphabetically from A to H.