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In his foreword, Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes, 'The publication of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature within months of she appearance of The Norton Anthology of African American [...]

The number of general internet directories has increased so rapidly recently that we have stopped reviewing them. Many of there emphasize the compilers idea of 'hot' or 'cool' sites and [...]

These two directories of museums and other specialized collections will be useful in many libraries. Guide to information Sources is arranged by 68 ethnic groups, including Jewish Americans, Native Americans, [...]

These two directories of museums and other specialized collections will be useful in many libraries. Guide to information Sources is arranged by 68 ethnic groups, including Jewish Americans, Native Americans, [...]

Facts On File, 1995. 288p. bibliog. charts. index. maps. $155 (0-8160-3106-1). DDC:912.56. These are the first two volumes in the Regional Geography Collection series using the 'On File' format. other [...]

Facts On File, 1995. 288p. bibliog. charts. index. maps. $155 (0-8160-3225-4). DDC:912.8. These are the first two volumes in the Regional Geography Collection series using the 'On File' format. other [...]

By Alice C. Andrews and James W. Fonseca. New York Univ., 1995. 303p. index. tables. $40 (0-8147-2626-7). DDC: 301. The more than 75 black-and-white maps in this topical atlas show [...]

By Craig Symonds. Naval Institute Press, 1995. 241 p. illus. index. maps. $39.95 (1-55750-797-X). DDC: 359. Symonds, professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy, and cartographer William Clipson have [...]

Ed. by Ira A. Glazier. Genealogical Publishing, 1995. index. v. 1: January 1875-September 1882, 703p., $60, (0-8063-1474-5); v.2: October 1882-April 1886, 631p., $60, (0-8063-1475-3). DDC: 929.37471. Retitled and dramatically enlarged [...]

By Hugo Wilson. DK, 1995. 320p. illus. index. $39.95 (0-7894-0150-9). DDC: 629.2. Approximately 4,000,000 motorcycles are currently registered in the U.S. Wilson, the author of the critically well received and [...]

2d ed. Ed. by Peter D. Bennett. NTC, 1995. 316p. bibliog. $39.95 (0-8442-3598-9). DDC: 658.8. This completely revised and expanded marketing dictionary, first issued in 1988, is published in conjunction [...]

Ed. by Allen R. Cook and Peter D. Dresser. Omnigraphics, 1995. 771 p. index. $80 (0-7808-0037-0). DDC: 616.2. When we reviewed Alzheimer's, Stroke, and 29 Other Neurological Disorders Sourcebook [RBB [...]

Ed. by Karen Bellenir and Peter D. Dresser.Omnigraphics, 1995. 535p. index. $80 (0-7808-003 3-8). DDC: 616.9. When we reviewed Alzheimer's, Stroke, and 29 Other Neurological Disorders Sourcebook [RBB S 1 [...]

Ed. by Karen Bellenir and Peter D. Dresser. Omnigraphics, 1995. 683p. index. $80 (0-7808-0032-X). DDC:616.1. When we reviewed Alzheimer's, Stroke, and 29 Other Neurological Disorders Sourcebook [RBB S 1 93], [...]

By H. Amanda Robb and Andrew Chesler. HarperCollins, 1995. 710p. $40 (0-06-270075-8). DDC 929.4. Based on the 1984 Report of Distribution of Surnames in the Social Security Number File, this [...]

When Booklist began publication in 1905, Norway had just won its independence from Sweden, Albert Einstein had published his theory of relativity, and suffragettes were campaigning for the vote. The [...]

First published in 1942, this classic work by noted British lexicographer Partridge, who died in 1979, has been updated by Whitcut. Recent editions had included American usage, but more has [...]

For children ages 9-12, this book contains biographies of 1,000 people from all parts of the world and all time periods. Subjects range in time from Egyptian pharoah Khufu (26,000 [...]

Reference Press, 1994. 328p. indexes. $79.95 (1-878753-55-X. ISSN 1073-6433). 338.7 Business enterprises--Directories ∥ Corporations--Directories [CIP] The reasonably priced Hoover's Handbook of American Business has proven to be popular in libraries. [...]

In 1920, the noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner proposed to the newly formed American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) that they sponsor a biographical dictionary of Americans, similar to Britain's [...]

This revised edition of Prucha's Handbook, first published in 1987, incorporates many of the new electronic sources available for historical research. A new introductory chapter discusses such tools as CD-ROM [...]

This revised edition of Prucha's Handbook, first published in 1987, incorporates many of the new electronic sources available for historical research. A new introductory chapter discusses such tools as CD-ROM [...]

Similar in format to Presidential Primaries and Caucuses [RBB O 1 93], Congressional and Gubernatorial Primaries details the Democratic and Republican primaries held in 1991-92 for governor in 15 states, [...]

Comp. by Kimball W Brace. Bernan Press, 1993. 1,061p. charts. tables. maps. $95 (0-890059-011-7). 324.973 Elections--U.S.--Statistic [BKL] Similar in format to Presidential Primaries and Caucuses [RBB 0 1 93], Congressional [...]

* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 60v. Ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 2004. illus, index. Oxford, $13,000 (0-19-861411-X). 920. * Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. [Internet [...]

In the mid-nineteenth century, much of Istanbul consisted of wooden houses on winding lanes. Periodically, whole neighborhoods were decimated by fire. Fire-control reforms called for masonry buildings on streets laid [...]

CD-ROM. DK, 1996. $59.95 Windows (0-7894-1218-7); Macintosh (0-7894-1222-5). DDC: 920. DK published the Chronicle of the 20th Century (1995) as part of its Chronicle series (Chronicle of America, Chronicle of [...]

This latest in Scarecrow's Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements begins with a chronology of the civil rights movement from 1941 through 1995. Unlike the Encyclopedia of African-American Civil [...]

The more than 600 entries here describe professional, semiprofessional, and academic stage organizations and theaters from their beginnings up to the dawn of the black theater movement in 1960. Coverage [...]

Ed. by Mary Alampi. Information Industry Association; dist. by Gale, 1997. 265p. indexes. $125 (0-7876-1593-5). DDC: 330. The Information Industry Association (IIA) is a trade association that represents electronic publishers. [...]

1997.522p. illus. indexes. $199 (0-939300-36-2); paper, $165 (0-939300-75-3). DDC: 337. Similar in format to Grey House's annual Directory of Mail Order Catalogs, this new directory provides information about 1,500 catalogs [...]

By Jennifer Scanlon and Shaaron Cosner. Greenwood, 1996. 269p. bibliog. illus. index. $70 (0-313-29664-2). DDC: 973. Another in Greenwood's series of biographical dictionaries on women, this book details the lives [...]

Kaplan, Justin and Bernays, Anne. Feb. 1997. 272p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-684-80741-6).DDC: 9294. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer JuStin Kaplan and his wife, novelist Anne Bernays, have teamed up to produce [...]

By Bruce Wetterau. Congressional Quarterly, 1996. 546p. bibliog. illus. index. $67 (1-56802-128-3). DDC: 920.073 Established by President Kennedy in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian [...]

CD-ROM, Oxford, 1996. Windows. $550 (0-19-268312-8). DDC:920. Often described as a monument of Victorian scholarship, this British biographical dictionary was originally published in 22 volumes between 1885 and 1900. It [...]

Ed. by Derk Arend Wilcox. Economics America, 612 N. Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 1996. 516p. index $74.95 (0-91469-03-3). DDC 320.52. A companion to The Right Guide [RBB Ap [...]

Ed. by Reeva S. Simon and others. Macmillan, 1996. 2,182p. bibliog. illus. index. $350 (0-02-89601 1-4). DDC: 956. Treating events over the past two centuries in 24 countries, from Morocco [...]

Ed. by John A. Wolter and Ronald E. Grim. Nov. 1996. 466p. index. illus. McGraw-Hill, $69.95 (0-07-071578-5). DDC: 911 These papers by a group of distinguished geographers were originally presented [...]

Ed. by Frank W.Thackery and John E. Findling. Greenwood, 1996. 217p, bibliog. illus. index. $39.95 (0-313-29076-8). DDC: 909.81. This companion to Events That Changed the World in the Twentieth Century [...]

The American Cornucopia By Richard Pillsbury and John Florin. Macmillan, 1996.278p. bibliog. charts. illus. index tables $90 (0-02-897333-X). DDC 338.1. This attractive work was compiled by two geographers, one from [...]

By Colin Wilson. DK, 1996. 192p. bibliog. illus. index. maps. $29.95 (0-7894-1051-6). DDC: 291.3. At first glance, this book is very similar to The Atlas of Sacred Places [RBB N [...]

CD-ROM. DK, 1996. $49.95 Mac (0-7894-0886-4); S4995 Windows (0-7894-0881-3). DDC: 550. This CD-ROM was designed for grade-school children. The retail version comes packaged with a paperback book, DK Pockets Space [...]

By Donald K. McKim. Westminster, Dec. 1996. 310p. bibliog. $33 (0-664-22089-4); paper $20 (0-664-25511-6). DDC: 230. Nearly 6,000 terms from disciplines such as the Bible, church history, ethics, ministry, spirituality, [...]

Mansel, Philip. Nov. 1996. 544p. index. illus. St. Martin's, $35 (0-312-14574-8). DDC: 949.61 From its capture by the Ottomans in 1453 to the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1924, [...]

2CD-ROMs. Reed Reference. 1996. $1,995 (0-8379-0050-6). DDC: 920. More than 700,000 biographies from Who's Who in America, the four regional Who's Whos, Who's Who of American Women, volumes 9 and [...]

Recognizing that today's judgments often look silly from tomorrow's point of view, it's nothing short of remarkable that more than half of the 2,200 titles selected by the Notable Books [...]

These two directories to the African American community will be useful in public and high-school libraries. Biddle, president of the Black Caucus of ALA, lists more than 2,000 organizations in [...]

These two directories to the African American community will be useful in public and high-school libraries. Biddle, president of the Black Caucus of ALA, lists more than 2,000 organizations in [...]