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The award-winning The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition consists of over 1,900 articles written by leading figures in the field including Nobel prize winners. This scholarly reference work is written on the level of postgraduate or advanced undergraduate, as the text employs a fair amount of economic and mathematical terminology. The articles are well beyond textbook summaries, but not quite as comprehensive as those in various single-subject...

Describes notable politicians, philosophers, poets, writers, artists and warriors.

A thorough reference set on one of the most important of topics, Historical Encyclopedia of American Business examines almost every facet of American business history that might be of interest to students. The three-volumes in this set cover general business topics like outsourcing or labor strikes, broad legal topics like patent laws, specific companies and government organizations, and persons who have played exceptional roles in the history of...

Economic and business uncertainty dominate today's economic analyses. This new Encyclopedia illuminates the subject by offering 327 original articles on every major aspect of business cycles, fluctuations, financial crises, recessions, and depressions. The articles cover a broad range of subjects, including capsule biographies of leading economists born before 1920. The Encyclopedia introduces readers to the principal ideas, concepts, facts, and events...

"This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China contains more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual topics regarding China's political, economic, and social systems, along with short biographies on important figures -- from politicians to writers and movie directors -- who have shaped Chinese history during the period of Communist rule from 1949 to 2006. Supplementing the entries are a chronology,...

Regrettably, while the general populace on both sides of the Atlantic have been exposed to the sensationalism of such projects as the Jesus Seminar and Jesus: The Evidence, no major undertaking has made available to the larger church the representative scholarship of students of Jesus and the Gospels which is both critically responsible and theologically evangelical. The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels has been prepared to meet such needs as these....

"Historical Dictionary of Medieval China fills an urgent need for a standard reference tailored to the interest of Western academics and readers. The history of medieval China is related through an introductory essay, maps, a table of dynastic periods, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on key people, historical geography, arts, institutions, and events."--BOOK JACKET.

This dictionary is the first comprehensive reference on Afro-American slavery to appear since the 1960s. It fills a great gap in the historiography of slavery that has been created by the proliferation of modern slavery studies in the past twenty-five years, and provides the opportunity for synthesizing the best literature on the many and diverse topics relating to the slavery experience in North America. Miller and Smith include essays on the social,...

Contains five thousand twentieth-century quotations, arranged alphabetically by speaker's name; features special sections on misquotations, newspaper headlines, political slogans, and film lines; and includes subject and key word indexes.