Needlework through History: An Encyclopedia (Handicrafts through World History)

Needlework serves functional purposes, such as providing warmth, but has also communicated individual and social identity, spiritual beliefs, and aesthetic ideals throughout time and geography. Needlework traditions are often associated with rituals and celebrations of life events. Often-overlooked by historians, practicing needlework and creating needlework objects provides insights to the history of everyday life. Needlework techniques traveled with merchants and explorers, creating a legacy of cross-cultural exchange.

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 3rd Edition, Volume 3: Com to Dor

This new edition provides:
 - Current information on 5,000 legal topics in 14 volumes cover important issues
 - More than 60 brand-new entries and 2,000 revised articles
 - Biographies of interesting and influential people who have played a part in creating or shaping U.S. law, along with a portrait, a timeline and a quote from the biographee
 - Increased coverage of women and minorities

 - Definitions of legal terms and much more

 

 

Dictionary Of Bio-technology

The field of biotechnology, since its inception as the experience-based knowledge of few natural phenomena, has changed to a well-developed, vast field based on studies, experiments, innovations and technological development.

 This book offers true stories of bloodthirsty pirates and the courageous men trying to stop them during the Western Hemisphere's golden age of piracy in the 17th and18th centuries.

The real world of piracy is brought vividly to life in this authoritative and entertaining new two-volume reference. Incorporating a wealth of new research, Pirates of the Americas offers hundreds of entries on the most famous—and infamous—buccaneers of the 1600s and 1700s, separating fact from fancy as it describes the men, their exploits

Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema

In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Prószynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrót Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and epic adaptations of the national literary canon to Yiddish cinema and films portraying the corrupted side of communism.