The Encyclopedia of the Heart and Heart Disease, Second Edition
This title is an excellent addition to the Facts On File Library of Health and Living providing a brief foundation for laypersons to understand health and disease of the heart. As heart disease is the cause of more than one-third of all deaths in this country, the title is a must in most libraries. It provides easy-to-understand information on symptoms, treatments, and causes.
This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. With nearly 500 contributors and over 1 million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language.
Added by: rszyma | Karma: 779.66 | Literature Studies, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 7 August 2011
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The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
The study of literature and culture has a need for theories to explain cultural objects and events. Literature is about life, and in human life, forces similar to gravity are at work, making some bodies fall and others rise, making some beams of human light straight and true while bending and warping others. Those events would be inexplicable without a theory to account for them.
A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have to search through many sources to locate the relevant passage. THE AYN RAND LEXICON brings together all the key ideas of her philosophy of Objectivism.
Added by: rszyma | Karma: 779.66 | Non-Fiction, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 5 August 2011
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Food: In Context
Food: In Context is a collection of entries on topics designed to provide an introduction to the global diversity of viewpoints on a broad array of food related issues. In addition to life-and-death decisions reflecting the fundamental importance of food, policies related to food issues both reflect and shape societies, social justice, and social change. While the entries contained in Food: In Context include treatments of traditional food related issues grounded in peer-reviewed science, they also provide insight into the development and implementation of polices shaped by history and contemporary geopolitical realities.
