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The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History, 5 Volume Set

ABC Clio, 2007

A comprehensive five-volume reference on the defining conflict of the second half of the 20th century, covering all aspects of the Cold War as it influenced events around the world.

• 1,299 entries covering all facets of the Cold War from its origins to its aftermath, including all political, diplomatic, military,...

Encyclopedia of Folk Heroes

ABC Clio, 2001

Seal (of the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia) has put together an interesting if sporadic collection of folk heroes. He refers to it as a "representative collection of legendary, historical, and magical heroes from many of the world's extensive folklores." South and Central America receive very little coverage....

Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War

ABC Clio, 1995

Because the 1991 War for Kuwait (erroneously dubbed the Gulf War) ended too quickly, it will probably never receive the scholarly attention that other conflicts garner. The politics of the Gulf is too complex, perhaps even too foreign, for most observers, and the reasons for our intervention too pragmatic to deserve the kind of attention that...

Encyclopedia of Creation Myths

ABC Clio, 1994

A myth is a narrative projection of a given cultural group's sense of its sacred past and its significant relationship with the deeper powers of the surrounding world and universe. A myth is a projection of an aspect of a culture's soul. In its complex but revealing symbolism, a myth is to a culture what a dream is to an...

Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 Volumes)

ABC Clio, 1999

The Encyclopedia is designed in an innovative structure that combines four types of entries:

Traditional Entries, or basic encyclopedic summaries of the knowledge in a typical area or field of study;

Feature Entries, which include...

Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars 1492-1890

ABC Clio, 1997

Clashes between European powers and the indigenous peoples of the Americas began almost immediately upon the arrival of the first Europeans on the shores of the New World. Such conflict seems inevitable in retrospect, and perhaps it should have been expected at the outset as well. The great disparity between the two cultures,...

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

ABC Clio, 2001

Any folklorist who saw the 1998 Columbia Pictures film Urban Legend will probably remember the library scene for its depiction of one aspect of folklore research. In this scene the beautiful student Natalie (played by Alicia Witt) suspects that recent campus mayhem was inspired by urban legends, the same kind of stories...

Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War

ABC Clio, 1999

At first glance, it would seem that Mexico and the United States should have been good neighbors in the nineteenth century—they were both relatively young countries that had rebelled against a mother nation to establish republics. As they grew, they both had to deal with states with populations that believed that their...

Encyclopedia of Prophecy

ABC Clio, 2001

Worldwide in scope and dating from biblical times, though its thrust is by no means exclusively religious, this encyclopedia ranges widely in its A-to-Z listing of entries. Among them are "apocalypse," "Edgar Cayce," "end of the world," "Napoleon," "premonitions," "sphinx," and...

British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

ABC Clio, 2001

This book is a biographical listing of the 198 British leaders who filled the top four offices of state and the post of secretary of state for the colonies between 1730 and the present. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order either by birth name or by title—whichever the given individual was best known by. For...

Gadgets and Necessities: An Encyclopedia of Household Innovations

ABC Clio, 2000

The title of this book implies that it is about things—gadgets and necessities within the twentieth-century home. In a way it is, but we hope that it is a little more than that. It is about people and their ideas, about their relationships with things and the value they placed upon them. It is also about people as the...

Food Safety

ABC Clio, 2000

It is estimated that 20 percent of all emergency room visits are due to foodborne illness. As dietary habits change to include more meals prepared away from home, higher consumption of fresh foods, and more imported foods, the risks of foodborne illness change. Food safety procedures that we learned from our parents may not be sufficient to keep us...

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