'Examines the Vietnam War and its lasting impact on the United States, Vietnam, and the world. Features include narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, detailed chronology, and annotated sources for further study'--Provided by publisher.

Presents the lives and accomplishments of seventy-five graphic novelists, as well as an overview of the medium, its history, manga and its history, and important publishers.

Product Description: Three times a year, this extraordinary reference series provides biographical profiles of important persons of African heritage. Whether they are personalities from the news, selected 20th-century notables, or individuals who are not yet household names, these are the men and women who are changing today's world and shaping the world of tomorrow...read more

Features biographies of twenty-six people prominent in the United States during the 1960s, including Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, Berry Gordy, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Timothy Leary, and Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

A guide to the history of the nineteen sixties contains an almanac, biographies, and primary sources.

Offers cast, credits, plot summary, and a critical bibliography for each film, along with biographical information on directors, actors, writers, and production artists.

The Almanac volume of this library contains 12 chapters covering major topics, including the roots of the war, causes of U.S. involvement, and the Espionage Act and Sedition Act. Biographies profiles 30 major players, including Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, John Pershing and Henri-Philippe Petain. Primary Sources presents 33 full or excerpted materials, including diaries, speeches, letters, journals and memoirs. Other features include maps, photos, a chronology, sidebars, an index, "Words to Know" sections and more.

Provides entries that cover all aspects of popular culture in the United States, including art, theater, film, sports, social life, music, and television.

"Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies provides students and business leaders with a thorough understanding of the current and historical economic development of approximately 200 foreign nations. Clearly arranged by country within broad geographic regions, the "Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies provides accurate, in-depth analysis of each country's economic environment, reliable statistics on the country's current economic conditions and trends and key demographics of the nation's citizens.

Product Description: For assignments requiring research on cultures and customs, fashion and costume information through the eras is frequently needed by middle school students. U - X - L 's "Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages" has all the answers in a comprehensive, chronologically based, affordably priced, four color, 5-vol...read more

Lists biographical and bibliographical information about influential writers of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from ancient times through the twentieth century.

A ten-volume overview of the twentieth century which explores what characterizes each decade as expressed through the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology, and sports. (view table of contents)

A ten-volume overview of the twentieth century which explores what characterizes each decade as expressed through the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology, and sports.

A ten-volume overview of the twentieth century which explores what characterizes each decade as expressed through the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology, and sports.

A ten-volume overview of the twentieth century which explores what characterizes each decade as expressed through the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology, and sports.

A ten-volume overview of the twentieth century which explores what characterizes each decade as expressed through the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology, and sports.

A ten-volume overview of the twentieth century which explores what characterizes each decade as expressed through the arts, economy, education, government, politics, fashions, health, science, technology, and sports.

Lists biographical and bibliographical information about influential writers of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from ancient times through the twentieth century.

Now a two volume set! The most exhaustive work in the field, the completely revised 5th edition of Contemporary Artists provides detailed personal and professional information on 850 artists -- both established masters and emerging figures on the international scene. Modern painters, sculptors and graphic and performance artists are included. Illustrated with approximately 600 black-and-white photographs of the artists and their works.The artists included in this edition are: Magdalena Abakanowicz Marina Abramovic Vito Acconci Valerio (Romani) Adami Dennis Adams Nicholas Africano Yaacov Agam Vincenzo Agnetti Doug Aitken Pierre Alechinsky Rene Pierre Allain Terry Allen Laurie Anderson Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Horst Antes Eleanor Antin Stephen Antonakos Richard (Joseph) Anuszkiewicz Siegfried Anzinger