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320.73 Women in politics. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2013. Introduction -- Have women made substantial gains in US politics? -- What is the status of women in world politics? -- Does the participation of women improve politics? -- What steps should be taken to encourage more women to enter politics?. A collection of essays that provides varying perspective on issues regarding the role of women in politics in the United States. 338.7 C Corrigan, Jim. Steve Jobs. 1st ed. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., c2009. Growing up in silicon valley -- The seeds of apple -- Growing pains -- The next mistakes -- Pixar shows promise -- Return to glory -- Ipod and beyond -- Lessons learned. Examines the life and accomplishments of Steve Jobs, co-founder of the Apple Computer Company, discussing his successes, failures, and other business ventures, and looking at his impact on Apple after his return to the company in the late 1990s. 347.73 W Wagner, Viqi, 1953-. Elena Kagan. Detroit : Lucent Books, c2012. Coming of age in a politically turbulent era -- Climbing the career ladder - - From the White House to academia and back -- Reaching the pinnacle: the Supreme Court confirmation process -- Personal life in a new spotlight -- Getting down to work. Biography of Supreme Court judge Elena Kagan, discussing her childhood, schooling, and career. 363.33 Gun violence. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2013. Contains eleven essays that provide varying perspectives on issues of gun violence, including firearm control and ownership. 371.33 Electronic devices in schools. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2013. A collection of twelve controversial essays that debate issues associated with the possession and use of electronic devices in schools such as the banning of cell phones while on school property. 394.26 Birth and growing up celebrations. Chicago : World Book, c2003. Relates the history of childhood and describes how birth, coming of age, and other important childhood events are celebrated in different countries and by different cultures around the world. Includes recipes and activities. 394.26 Harvest celebrations. Chicago : World Book, c2003. Describes how the harvest festival is celebrated in different countries, by different cultures, and with different foods around the world when crops are gathered to feed a community. Includes recipes and activities. 394.26 National celebrations. Chicago : World Book, c2003. Describes how special events or people in the history of a nation are celebrated in different countries, by different cultures, and with different foods around the world. Includes recipes and activities. 394.26 New Year's celebrations. Chicago : World Book, c2003. Describes how the coming of the new year is celebrated in different countries and by different cultures around the world. 394.26 Spring celebrations. Chicago : World Book, c2003. Describes some of the religious and national holidays and other observances celebrated in different countries and by different cultures around the world. 420.9 McCrum, Robert. The story of English. 1st American ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1986. A companion to the PBS television series. Provides an overview of our language, its history, and present use around the world. 618.92 C Currie-McGhee, L. K. (Leanne K.). Childhood obesity. Detroit : Lucent Books, c2012. Discusses the state of childhood obesity, its causes, and its effects on health. 720.483 Joseph J. Korom, Jr. Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age : Fifty-One Extravagant Designs, 1875-1910. North Carolina : McFarland & Company, 2012. 759.13 Rockwell, Norman, 1894-1978. 332 magazine covers. New York : Abbeville Press, c1979. Contains full color reproductions of magazine covers along with commentary about the artist. 921 PAR Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005. Rosa Parks : my story. New York : Puffin, 1999. Rosa Park's life story reveals the deliberate choices she made that earned her the title "Mother to a Movement.". 942.03 Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry. 1995 ed. New York : Cresent Books ;, 1995. Henry III (1216-1272) -- Edward I (1272-1307) -- Edward II (1307-1327) -- Edward III (1327-1377). History of the kings of England from the signing of the Magna Carta to the time of the black death taken from contemporary accounts such as the Barnwell chronicle, the chronicle of Thomas Wykes, the chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, the Lanercost chronicle, Choricon Gaslfridi le Baker de Swyndbroke, and others. 973 Tindall, George Brown. America : a narrative history. 5th ed. New York : Norton, c1999. AT 0018 Collins, Suzanne. Catching fire. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2009. Read by Carolyn McCormick. By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. AT 0019 Collins, Suzanne. Mockingjay. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2010. Read by Carolyn McCormick. Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12. AT 0020 Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York : Scholastic, 2008. AT 0021 Lowry, Lois. Like the willow tree : the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2011. Read by Sara Barnett. After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. AT 0022 Larson, Kirby. The fences between us : the diary of Piper Davis. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2010. Read by Elaina Erika Davis. Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. AT 0023 Pinkney, Andrea Davis. With the might of angels : the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2011. Read by Channie Waites. In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African-American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. AT 0024 Mass, Wendy, 1967-. 13 gifts. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2011. Read by Kathleen McInerney. Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, tries to break out of her shell by stealing the school mascot, a goat, but she gets caught and is shipped off for the summer to stay with relatives in the quirky town of Willow Falls, which she decides is as good a place as any to reinvent herself. AT 0025 Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. The Scorpio Races. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2011. Read by Steve West and Fiona Hardingham. Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. AT 0026 Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-. The Raven Boys. Unabridged. New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2012. Read by Will Patton. Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix. F ECO Eco, Umberto. Baudolino. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harcourt, c2002. Baudolino, having just rescued a court official caught in the sacking and burning of Constantinople in 1204, proceeds to entertain the man with the fantastical story of his life. F HIR Hirsch, Jeff. The eleventh plague. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2011. Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen- year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down. F KOR Korman, Gordon. Ungifted. 1st ed. New York : Balzer + Bray, c2012. Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school. F LAR Larson, Kirby. Hattie ever after. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2013. In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco. F LER Lerner, Ben, 1979-. Leaving the Atocha Station : a novel. 1st ed. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2011. While on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, Spain, Adam Gordon, a young American poet, struggles to establish his connection to self and to art, begins to question the possibility of the genuine in both the arts and in his own life, and witnesses the 2004 Madrid train bombings. F MEY Meyer, Marissa. Scarlet. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2013. Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. F MOR Morris, Paula. Unbroken : a Ruined novel. 1st ed. New York : Point, 2013. Returning to New Orleans for spring break, sixteen-year-old Rebecca finds herself embroiled in another murder mystery from more than a century ago, when she meets the ghost of a troubled boy. F PIC Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. Between the lines : a novel. 1st Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012. Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom. F REE Reedy, Trent. Words in the dust. 1st ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011. Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip. F RUB Rubin, Sarah, 1982-. Someday dancer. 1st American ed. New York : Chicken House, 2012. In South Carolina in 1959 Casey Quinn dreams of being a ballerina, and though she has never had the money for lessons, she follows her dream to New York City and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. F SCH Schmidt, Gary D. Okay for now. Boston : Clarion Books, 2011. Fourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck faces many challenges, including an abusive father, a brother traumatized by Vietnam, suspicious teachers and police officers, and isolation, but when he meets a girl known as Lil Spicer, he develops a close relationship with her and finds a safe place at the local library. F STO Stone, Phoebe, 1947-. The Romeo and Juliet code. 1st ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011. During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents. F WES Westerfeld, Scott. Goliath. 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2011. Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the- world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. Ref. 031 The World Book encyclopedia. Chicago : World Book, Inc., c2013. ebooks American decades. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, c1994-2001. [v.1] 1900-1909 / edited by Vincent Tompkins -- [v.2] 1910-1919 / edited by Vincent Tompkins -- [v.3] 1920-1929 / edited by Judith S. Baughman - - [v.4] 1930-1939 / edited by Victor Bondi -- [v.5] 1940-1949 / edited by Victor Bondi -- [v.6] 1950-1959 / edited by Richard Layman -- [v.7] 1960- 1969 / edited by Richard Layman -- [v.8] 1970-1979 / edited by Victor Bondi -- [v.9] 1980-1989 / edited by Victor Bondi -- [v.10] 1990-1999 / edited by Tandy McConnell. Cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history. Encyclopedia of world biography. 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1998. v. 1. A-Barbosa -- v. 2. Bardeen-Briand -- v. 3. Brice-Ch'i Pai-Shih -- v. 4. Chippendale-Dickinson -- v. 5. Diderot-Forbes -- v. 6. Ford-Grilliparzer -- v. 7. Grimke-Howells -- v. 8. Hoxha-Kierkegaard -- v. 9. Kilpatrick-Louis -- v. 10. Love-Micah -- v. 11. Michael-Orleans -- v. 12. Orozco-Radisson - - v. 13. Raffles-Schelling -- v. 14. Schiele-Stuart -- v. 15. Studi-Visser -- v. 16. Vitoria-Zworykin -- v. 17. Index -- 18. Supplement A-Z [1999] -- v. 19. Supplement A-Z [2000] -- v. 20. Supplement A-Z [2000] -- v. 21. Supplement A-Z [2001] -- v. 22. Supplement A-Z [2002] -- v. 23. Supplement A-Z [2004]. Presents brief biographical sketches which provide vital statistics as well as information on the importance of the person listed. Scholarships, fellowships, and loans : a guide to education-related financial aid programs for students and professionals. 29th ed. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2012. v. 1. Sponsors and their scholarships : A-H -- v. 2. Sponsors and their scholarships : I-T -- v. 3. Sponsors and their scholarships : U-Z and indexes. Provides comprehensive information on sources of education- related financial aid sponsored and administered by private organizations and companies. Covers a variety of programs in all educational areas, including area and ethnic studies, business, computer science, education, liberal arts, medicine, physical sciences, theology and religion, and more. Intended for students and others interested in education funding. CaseBase. : case studies in global business. Detroit : Gale, 2012. Afghanistan : comparative advantage and the opium trade -- Conflict in a sino-foreign joint venture : Chinese perspective -- Conflict in a sino- foreign joint venture : western perspective -- Does having a natural resource endowment equate with economic growth? The problems facing Nigeria in maintaining a stable electricity supply -- Fast retailing's creating shared value (CSV) initiatives -- Global executive gender inequality -- Growing pains at Netflix : the Qwikster issue of 2011 -- How Kraft changed the Oreo and its global marketing strategy for success in China -- Johnson & Johnson and crisis management : comparison of two leaders in two crises -- Market behaviour during the holy month of Ramadan -- The marketing process and urban development in Cairo : identifying and meeting diverse consumer needs -- MGM Marmi : challenging tradition with entrepreneurial leadership and business communication -- New forms of social enterprise in France : a factory for change -- Offshore agricultural production and Saudi Arabia : a pragmatic response to resource endowment or an ethical own goal? -- Opening up the economy to foreign investment : new moves in Syria -- Parmigiano-Reggiano : global recognition of geographical indications -- Photo finished : Eastman Kodak and the digital revolutions -- Reaching global markets : marketing considerations in selling fashion clothing in new markets -- Retailing in Saudi Arabia and the role of market research -- Rossignol : remade in France -- Royal Jordanian Airlines : the effect of monopoly power on the competitive behaviour of a business in the airline industry -- Sino-forest : a sustainable business?. Covers business case studies focused on issues in emerging markets and emerging industries across the globe. UXL encyclopedia of drugs & addictive substances. Detroit, Mich. : UXL, c2006. v. 1. 2C-B to benzylpiperazine/trifluoromethyl-phenylpiperazine -- v. 2. Caffeine to diuretics -- v. 3. Ecstasy to LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) -- v. 4. Marijuana to nitrous oxide -- v. 5. Opium to tranquilizers. Provides detailed information on 52 drugs and other addictive substances, defined as illegal drugs, legal addictive drugs and other substances as well as commonly abused classes of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Statistics highlight each entry and sidebars provide information on the legal, historical or social aspects of the particular drug. Difficult words are defined within the text. Appropriate for middle school students. Schirmer encyclopedia of film. Detroit, Mich. : Schirmer Reference, c2007. Volume 1. Preface -- List of articles -- Academy awards - Crime films -- Index -- Volume 2. List of articles -- Criticism - Ideology -- Index -- Volume 3. List of articles -- Independent film - Road movies -- Index -- Volume 4. List of articles -- Romantic comedy - Yugoslavia -- Glossary -- Notes on advisors and contributors -- Index. This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2002. A clockwork orange - Anthony Burgess -- The country of the pointed firs - Sarah Orne Jewett -- Demian - Hermann Hesse -- The house of mirth - Edith Wharton -- In the castle of my skin - George Lamming -- The last king of Scotland - Giles Foden -- Looking backward: 2000-1887 - Edward Bellamy -- Losing battles - Eudora Welty -- Main Street - Sinclair Lewis -- The mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy -- Rumble fish - S.E. Hinton - - Shizuko's daughter - Kyoko Mori -- Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2002. The day of the locust - Nathanael West -- The end of the affair - Graham Greene -- Evelina - Fanny Burney -- Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev -- The fountainhead - Ayn Rand -- A gathering of old men - Ernest J. Gaines -- The godfather - Mario Puzo -- Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad -- The plague - Albert Camus -- That was then, this is now - S.E. Hinton -- The turn of the screw - Henry James. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2000. Always coming home - Ursula K. Le Guin -- Billy Budd, sailor: an inside narrative - Herman Melville -- Deliverance - James Dickey -- The fixer - Bernard Malamud -- Gone with the wind - Margaret Mitchell -- In the time of the butterflies - Julia Alvarez -- The last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper -- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -- On the beach - Nevil Shute -- Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen -- The prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - - Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe -- Roots: the story of an American family - Alex Haley -- Rubyfruit jungle - Rita Mae Brown -- Tex - S.E. Hinton. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c1999. The accidental tourist - Anne Tyler -- Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll -- The Caine mutiny - Herman Wouk -- Candide - Voltaire - - Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg -- The grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck -- The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams -- Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto -- A lesson before dying - Ernest J. Gaines -- Mama Day - Gloria Naylor -- Moby-dick - Herman Melville -- Native son - Richard Wright -- 1984 - George Orwell -- A portrait of the artist as a young man - James Joyce -- The trial - Franz Kafka. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1998. Animal farm - George Orwell -- Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid -- The awakening - Kate Chopin -- Crime and punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Cry, the beloved coutry - Alan Paton -- Democracy - Joan Didion -- Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons -- The giver - Lois Lowry -- Grendel - John Gardner -- Obasan - Joy Kogawa -- A passage to India - E.M. Forster -- Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -- Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston -- Wise blood - Flannery O'Connor -- A yellow raft in blue water - Michael Dorris. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1997. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain -- The bell jar - Sylvia Plath -- Black Boy - Richard Wright -- The bluest eye - Toni Morrison -- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller -- The catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger -- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury -- A farewell to arms - Ernest Hemingway -- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley -- The joy luck club - Amy Tan -- Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Of mice and men - John Steinbeck -- Ordinary people - Judith Guest -- Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen -- The scarlet letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1997. The chocolate war - Robert Cormier -- Dinner at the homesick restaurant - Anne Tyler -- Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes -- The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad -- The house on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros -- I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou -- Invisible man - Ralph Ellison -- Lord of the flies - William Golding -- My Antonia - Willa Cather -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey -- A separate peace - John Knowles -- Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe -- To kill a mockingbird -- Harper Lee -- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. New dictionary of the history of ideas. Detroit, Mich. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2005. Volume 1. List of articles -- Preface -- Historiography -- Reader's guide -- Abolitionism -- Common sense -- Volume 2. Reader's guide -- Communication of ideas-futurology -- Volume 3. Reader's guide -- Game theory-Lysenkoism -- Volume 4. Reader's guide -- Machiavellism- Phrenology -- Volume 5. Reader's guide -- Physics-Syncretism -- Volume 6. Reader's guide -- Taste-Zionism -- List of contributors -- Index. A six- volume survey of the history of Western thought and culture, presented through 700 alphabetically arranged entries. Each entry explores the origin, cultural interpretations, and historical themes of such subjects as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital, among many others. For students and general readers. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2001. The age of innocence - Edith Wharton -- Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara -- Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison -- Betsey Brown - Ntozake Shange -- Body and soul - Frank Conroy -- Cane - Jean Toomer -- The clan of the cave bear - Jean Auel -- The crazy horse electric game - Chris Crutcher -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson -- The grass dancer - Susan Power -- Less than zero - Bret Easton Ellis -- The return of the native - Thomas Hardy -- A room with a view - E.M. Forster -- The stone angel - Margaret Laurence -- Watership down - Richard Adams. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2001. The ambassadors - Henry James -- Animal dreams - Barbara Kingsolver -- Bless me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya -- The bride price - Buchi Emecheta -- The edible woman - Margaret Atwood -- Little women - Louisa May Alcott -- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf -- The octopus - Frank Norris -- The painted bird - Jerzy Kosinski -- Pilgrims in Aztlan - Miguel Mendez -- Rabbit, run - John Updike -- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier -- The slave dancer - Paula Fox -- Too late the phalarope - Alan Paton -- The world according to Garp - John Irving. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2002. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner -- All the king's men - Robert Penn Warren -- Brideshead revisited - Evelyn Waugh -- The death of the heart - Elizabeth Bowen -- The kitchen god's wife - Amy Tan -- The member of the wedding - Carson McCullers -- Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe -- Nectar in a sieve - Kamala Markandaya -- The optimist's daughter - Eudora Welty -- The remains of the day -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- Snow falling on cedars - David Guterson -- Surfacing - Margaret Atwood - - The sweet hereafter - Russell Banks -- Vanity Fair - William Thackeray - - The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Encyclopedia of education. 2nd ed. New York, N.Y. : Macmillan Reference USA, c2003. v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-G -- v. 3. H-J -- v. 4. K-M -- v. 5. N-P -- v. 6. R-T -- v. 7. U-Z -- v. 8. Appendixes. Index. Offers a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles, and philosophies in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world. Features biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities and of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full text source documents, including education related legislation, international treaties, and testing methods. 8 volumes. American law yearbook 2011. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2012. Adoption -- Affirmative action -- Arbitration -- Automobiles -- Bankruptcy -- Banks and banking -- Capital punishment -- Civil rights -- Class action -- Consumer protection -- Contract -- Courts -- Criminal law - - Department of the Treasury -- DNA evidence -- Drugs and narcotics -- Due process -- Education law -- Election law -- Email -- Employment discrimination -- Environmental law -- ERISA -- Establishment clause -- Ethics -- Federal Communications Commission -- Federal preemption -- First amendment -- Foreclosure -- Fourth amendment -- Fraud -- Freedom of Information Act -- Freedom of speech -- Gambling -- Gay and lesbian rights -- Habeas Corpus -- Health care -- Immigration -- Immunity -- Impeachment -- International law -- Internet -- Jurisdiction -- Juvenile law -- Labor law -- Medicine -- Military law -- Murder -- Native American rights -- Obstruction of justice -- Parole -- Patents -- Preemption -- Prisoners' rights -- Privacy -- Religion -- Right to counsel -- Riparian rights -- Second amendment -- In focus : gun control and mental illness disqualification in the aftermath of the 2011 Tucson shootings -- Section 1983 -- Securities -- Sentencing -- Sex offenses -- Sexual harassment -- Sixth amendment -- Social Security Act -- Sovereign immunity -- Speedy trial -- Sports law -- Statute of limitations -- Taxation -- Telecommunications -- Tenth amendment -- Terrorism -- Tort law -- U.S. Supreme Court -- Voting Rights Act -- Whistleblower -- White collar crime. Annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law that updates and expands the content with new topics, updates, biographies of prominent figures and government appointees, and other features. Each year's edition contains the full U.S. Supreme Court docket in addition to the non-Supreme Court cases. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2002. Cat's eye - Margaret Atwood -- For whom the bell tolls - Ernest Hemingway -- Hatter Fox - Marilyn Harris -- Herzog - Saul Bellow -- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -- Margret Howth - Rebecca Harding Davis -- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -- Persuasion - Jane Austen -- The pigman - Paul Zindel -- A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -- Ship of fools - Katherine Anne Porter -- Sula - Toni Morrison -- The three musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -- USA - John Dos Passos -- The wrestling match - Buchi Emecheta. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. The Gale encyclopedia of medicine. 4th ed. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2011. 1. A-B -- v. 2. C-E -- v. 3. F-K -- v. 4. L-O -- v. 5. P-S -- v. 6. T-Z. Includes information on numerous medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics. Encyclopedia of religion. 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. Preface to the second edition -- Visual essays: rationale -- Preface to the first edition -- Foreword to the first edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- List of articles -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Encyclopedia of religion, second edition -- Volume 15 includes appendix, synoptic outline of contents, and index. The second edition of a resource that is considered a standard reference in the field. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. The original 2,750 entries have been retained, many heavily updated, and approximately 600 entirely new articles have been added by an international team of scholars and contributors. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c1999. The adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain -- Beloved - Toni Morrison -- Brave new world - Aldous Huxley -- Gulliver's travels - Jonathan Swift -- The heart is a lonely hunter - Carson McCullers -- The house of the spirits - Isabel Allende -- The jungle - Upton Sinclair -- The left hand of darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin -- The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow -- Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse - - The stranger - Albert Camus -- Uncle Tom's cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The woman warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2000. As I lay dying - William Faulkner -- The brothers Karamazov - Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- The call of the wild - Jack London -- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- Empire of the sun - J.G. Ballard -- The hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien -- Kindred - Octavia Butler -- The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov -- The old gringo - Carlos Fuentes -- On the road - Jack Kerouac -- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser - - Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison -- Ten little Indians - Agatha Christie - - them - Joyce Carol Oates -- To the lighthouse - Virginia Woolf. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1998. All quiet on the Western front - Erich Maria Remarque -- Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko -- The chosen - Chaim Potok -- Go tell it on the mountain - James Baldwin -- Great expectations - Charles Dickens -- The handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood -- In country - Bobbie Ann Mason -- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -- July's people - Nadine Gordimer -- The natural - Bernard Malamud -- Night - Eliezer Wiesel -- The red badge of courage - Stephen Crane -- Seize the day - Saul Bellow -- The sound and the fury - William Faulkner -- Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson -- The women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. History behind the headlines : the origins of conflicts worldwide. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2001. Africa's small arms trade : an infection of guns and chaos -- Argentina : from economic miracle to political meltdown -- Australia's illegal migration : an Australian dilemma or worldwide problem? -- Bangladesh : the democratic election of 2001 -- Children exploited : combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children -- China and ASEAN agree to free trade area but why? -- Cloning debate : the future is burdened by its past -- Cybercrime : is the Internet outside the law? -- Enron : how did this happen? -- European Union : advancements and delays in European integration -- Gibraltar : a thorn in the side of the EU -- International Criminal Court : accountability at last? -- Jamaica : gun battles in Kingston -- Japan : history and the textbook controversy -- Pakistan : partner against terrorism -- Philippines Rebellion : freedom fighting, banditry, or terrorism? -- Portugal at the forefront : the decriminalization of drugs in Europe -- Russia-NATO relations in the post-cold war world : rethinking the future of collective security -- South Africa : a slow economy delays some post-apartheid goals -- Turkey : women are granted equal rights -- Ukraine-a president stands accused : murder and politics -- War correspondents today -- Water wars : myth or reality? -- Women, peace, and security : United Nations Resolution 1325 -- World Bank and the IMF in developing countries : globalization and the crisis of legitimacy -- World Trade Organization : the technical side of globalization -- Zionism : a perspective on the Jewish-Israeli experience in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines. Users are provided with historical background and analysis to events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and layers of current affairs. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2001. Atlas shrugged - Ayn Rand -- Breathing lessons - Anne Tyler -- A Christmas carol - Charles Dickens -- Chronicle of a death foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The dead of the house - Hannah Green -- House made of dawn - N. Scott Momaday -- Howards end - E.M. Forster - - The naked and the dead - Norman Mailer -- Pigs in heaven - Barbara Kingsolver -- Shogun: a novel of Japan - James du Maresq Clavell -- Summer of my German soldier - Bette Greene -- War and peace - Leo Tolstoy. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Alternative energy. Detroit, Mich. : UXL, c2006. Introduces students to issues surrounding both current energy sources and alternative energy options. While there is significant discussion of the non- renewable resources now used to meet the majority of the world's energy needs (oil, coal and natural gas), the primary focus of the set is on newer options to meet the ever-growing demand. Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and crticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1999. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines -- The bean trees - Barbara Kingsolver -- The color purple - Alice Walker -- Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K. Dick -- Ender's game - Orson Scott Card -- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton -- Giants in the earth - O.E. Rolvaag -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents - Julia Alvarez -- Like water for chocolate - Laura Esquivel -- Love medicine - Louise Erdrich -- Les miserables - Victor Hugo -- One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The outsiders - S.E. Hinton -- The pearl - John Steinbeck -- The sun also rises - Ernest Hemingway -- A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism. Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations. 13th ed. Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, c2012. v. 1. United Nations -- v. 2. Africa -- v. 3. Americas -- v. 4. Asia & Oceania -- v. 5. Europe. Presents easy-to-understand information on countries and dependencies from around the world. Entries discuss a variety of topics in detail, from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics. Also includes biographical essays on national leaders.