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By Thierry Boucquey, Marie Josephine Diamond

Scholars frequently locate it tricky to find greater than floor biographical info on international authors. discovering criticism--especially in English--can be both not easy. as well as entries for genres, pursuits, and literary phrases, this set deals serious biographies on an array of overseas authors. assurance features a spectrum of codecs, together with poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, essays, epics, odes, and sacred texts. the 1st quantity starts off with African proverbs relationship from 1500 B.C and maintains during the finish of the 13th century. quantity 2 considers 1300 in the course of the 1800s, and quantity three concentrates at the earlier centuries. the point of interest is on participants and genres which are underrepresented in conventional assets. for that reason, even if there are lots of references to early local American, Anglo-Saxon, and Celtic literature within the first quantity, just a handful of English and English-speaking American writers looks in quantity 2, and quantity three doesn't contain any writers from both the U.S. or nice Britain.

Alphabetically prepared articles diversity from a number of paragraphs to some pages. Longer biographical entries contain separate sections on severe research. so much entries finish with an inventory of English translations and extra examining choices. each one tome contains a volume--specific preface, advent, time line, checklist of writers by way of geographic zone, bibliography, and index.

By Mel Schwartz

Clever materials--materials and buildings which may impart information regarding their setting to an observer or tracking device--are revolutionizing fields as various as engineering, optics, and clinical expertise. Advances in shrewdpermanent fabrics are impacting disciplines around the medical and technological panorama.

Now, practictioners and researchers have an authoritative resource to visit for solutions approximately this rising new zone. Encyclopedia of shrewdpermanent fabrics offers A-to-Z insurance of the whole box of clever fabrics. Discussions of concept, fabrication, processing, functions, and makes use of of those distinct fabrics are offered right here in a suite of concise entries from the world's most suitable specialists within the field--including scientists, educators and engineers.

This encyclopedia is as vast in scope because the know-how itself, addressing day-by-day, advertisement functions in addition to subtle devices designed to function in house, underwater, underground, and in the human physique. commonly cross-referenced and generously supplemented with bibliographies and indexes, this book's remedy additionally broaches the really good houses and coatings which are required for using fabrics in severe stipulations.

Illustrated with pictures, tables, line drawings, and equations, Encyclopedia of shrewdpermanent fabrics is the premiere reference for cloth scientists, chemists, chemical engineers, strategy engineers, experts, patent legal professionals and scholars in those parts. a necessary source at the cabinets of laboratories, executive amenities, and educational libraries.

Editor-in-Chief, Mel Schwartz has over 40 years of expertise with metals, ceramics, and composites, with specified services in brazing. The holder of 5 patents, he has authored 13 books and a couple of hundred technical papers and articles.

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By Dinah Shelton (Editor)

By Gene D. Phillips, Rodney Hill

From anti-war dramas akin to "Paths of Glory" to the complexity of his ultimate movie, "Eyes extensive Shut", debatable movie director Stanley Kubrick constantly commanded his audience's awareness. This encyclopaedia bargains entire insurance of his existence and the thirteen function motion pictures he directed, together with "2001, an area Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange",and "The Shining". In-depth entries survey: the actors who played in his motion pictures, the writers with whom he collaborated, key individuals of his workforce, notion for his videos, track and composers for his motion pictures; and routine topics and genres.

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By Juan Ramon Rabunal Dopico, Juan Ramon Rabunal Dopico, Julian Dorado De La Calle, Alejandro Pazos Sierra

A number of real-life difficulties so advanced as to be nearly insoluble by way of conventional desktop technological know-how recommendations can now be approached successfully with synthetic intelligence options. lately, man made intelligence applied sciences have developed at a speedy velocity, elevating major demanding situations to the trouble to stick present.

PThe Encyclopedia of synthetic Intelligence is a accomplished and in-depth connection with the latest advancements within the box overlaying theoretical advancements, recommendations, applied sciences, and purposes of structures utilizing clever features for adaptability, automation studying, type, prediction, or even inventive construction, between others. Authored by way of the realm s best specialists from greater than 30 international locations, this commanding reference of over 2 hundred articles is vital to any study library s know-how holdings.

The time has come for a brand new in-depth encyclopedic choice of articles defining the present country of Deaf experiences at a world point and utilizing the severe and intersectional lens encompassing the field.  The emergence of Deaf reports courses at faculties and universities and the broadened wisdom of social sciences (including yet now not constrained to Deaf heritage, Deaf tradition, Signed Languages, Deaf Bilingual schooling, Deaf artwork, and extra) have served to extend the actions of analysis, educating, research, and curriculum development.  the sector has skilled a big shift as a result of expanding information of Deaf reviews study because the mid-1960s. the sphere has been additional prompted by way of the Deaf community’s flow, resistance, activism and politics around the world, in addition to the impression of technological advances, such as in communications, with cellphones, desktops, and different devices.

an important target of this new encyclopedia is to shift concentration clear of the “Medical/Pathological Model” that will view Deaf contributors as wanting to be “fixed” so that it will right listening to and talking deficiencies for the only function of assimilating into mainstream society. against this, The Deaf experiences Encyclopedia seeks to carve out a brand new and demanding viewpoint on Deaf reports with the point of interest that the Deaf will not be a individuals with a incapacity to be taken care of and “cured” medically, yet particularly, are individuals of a different cultural staff with a unique and colourful group and means of being.

By Michael Allaby

The Ecosystems sequence is the one resource that provides a whole realizing of worldwide ecology. Illustrated with appealing full-colour photos, each one quantity combines the ''hard sciences,'' reminiscent of biology and chemistry, with background, economics, and environmental experiences. every one environment is gifted in its entirety with information on its heritage, biology, flora and fauna, good looks, difficulties, and impression on tradition. This interdisciplinary strategy emphasizes the complicated, interrelated nature of every biome - giving readers the main built-in portrayal of the flora and fauna to be had. every one quantity spans Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, and the Americas to give a specific environment. assurance deals a uncomplicated creation to ecological thoughts and demonstrates how those options impact the complicated dating among people and the surroundings.

This one-stop reference is an ideal source for someone attracted to the North and South Poles, even if their curiosity pertains to historical past, flora and fauna, or the geography of those areas within the information today.

• 2 volumes

• Introduces normal phenomena and wildlife discovered on the North and South Pole regions

• Discusses present matters on the topic of weather swap and its impression at the polar regions

• Furnishes scholars with an figuring out of territorial claims and political concerns surrounding the North and South Poles

• contains cross-references to let readers to attract connections among topics

• deals extra readings on the finish of every access in addition to a advisor to comparable subject matters to stimulate scholar learn

By Molk J. (ed.)

This encyclopedia is the main updated, concise, transparent and reasonable advisor to all features of technological know-how fiction, from its historical past to widely used subject matters and units, from authors (established and new) to movies. technology fiction has developed into some of the most well known, state of the art and interesting fiction geners, with a proliferation of recent and vintage authors, subject matters and ideas, videos, television sequence and awards. prepared in an A-Z layout, and that includes a complete index and cross-referencing approach, The sizeable Encyclopedia of technology Fiction can also be the main obtainable and straightforward to exploit encyclopedia of its type at present on hand.