With more than 600 entries on topics of interest to young readers, this is a comprehensive reference to the major figures, places, stories, objects and themes in the most popular legends and folktales from Japan.

This title is a unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction. A companion to the award-winning Magill's Survey of American Literature, this comprehensive, six-volume set offers profiles of major authors of fiction, drama, poetry, and essays, each with sections on biography, general analysis, and analysis of the author's most important works - novels, short stories, poems, and works of nonfiction. The completely revamped edition updates these original essays and adds many new ones, covering 380 writers at the heart of literary studies.

Special features: Five reference features can be found at the end of volume 6. The first is the Glossary, which defines crucial literary terms. There is also a Category List which groups authors by genre, gender and identity. Next comes a Geographical List, which groups the authors by country. The Author Index lists all authors covered in the set along with their works. Finally, the Title Index lists all works covered in the set. At a Glance: This title contains 6 volumes; 3,000 pages; and 380 essays with 87 new. It is illustrated and contains discussion topics; pronunciation for authors with foreign or unusual last names; glossary; category list; geographical list; author index; and title index.

Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics.

Includes over 4,000 entries covering the subject from absolute zero to the zeeman effect. As well as highlighted entries on key topies, this dictionary will feature: / an extensive range of physics data tables -- electrical conductivity, refractive index, standard physics formulae, and much more, so as to make the book both dictionary and data book. / references to a wide selection of useful physics websites -- for example webelment.com for the latest updates on whether ununoctium really is element 118 or not ! There are over 60,000 A-level students and 5,000 degree students (plus many more in subjects such as electronics or where standard physics knowledge is required).

In the United States, social class ranks with gender, race, and ethnicity in determining the values, activities, political behavior, and life chances of individuals. Most scholars agree on the importance of class, although they often disagree on what it is and how it impacts Americans. This A-Z encyclopedia, the first to focus on class in the United States, surveys the breadth of class strata throughout our history, for high school students to the general public.