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Provides 330,000 full length biographies on more than 220,000 people. Artists, religious leaders, newsmakers and scientists are among the biographies found in this service.

This acclaimed title answers the question "How do they make that?" with 100 in-depth, illustrated articles covering a wide variety of products such as silver, piano, camera, paper currency and more.  Each entry offers a straightforward, step-by-step description of the manufacturing and assembly process for the product. You'll also find historical information on the product, raw materials used, by-products generated during manufacture, quality control procedures, future applications and sources for more information. Vintage product photographs and sidebars relating historical trivia are provided. A multi-level cumulative index has also been added to aid the user.

This acclaimed title answers the question "How do they make that?"

This acclaimed title answers the question "How do they make that?"

This acclaimed title answers the question "How do they make that?"

For students in kindergarten through grade five. Includes more than 100 full-text, age-appropriate magazines, more than 6,400 searchable, indexed images, Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary and 1,200 maps, flags and seals and over 1,700 colorful charts and graphs. Subject categories include animals, arts and entertainment, geography, health, history and social studies, inventions and technology, plants, people, science and math, sports, stories and literature, and transportation.

Shakespeare for Students is an attractive and accessible 3-vol. set of essential criticism to the playwright's most-popularly-studied plays and poetry in secondary schools and undergraduate curricula. The second edition contains updated entries and 4 brand new entries.  You'll find a diverse blend of criticism along with plot summaries and character profiles that help further decode these dramatic masterpieces for students.  Each detailed, illustrated entry provides an introduction that provides an overview of the play or poem; a plot summary; an annotated character list; a discussion of the play's principal themes; understandable essays on the plays construction (setting, dialogue, imagery); historical and cultural context sections that illuminate the play's role in inter-curricular studies; excerpted critical commentary on various facets of the play; extensive theme index; a chronology of Shakespeare's life, work, and times; and much more.