Fourth Edition of the Biographical Encyclopedia of the World
Title | Fourth Edition of the Biographical Encyclopedia of the World PDF eBook |
Author | World Biography |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2624 |
Release | 1948 |
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World Biography
Title | World Biography PDF eBook |
Author | Institute for Research in Biography, New York |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Biography |
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The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
Title | The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | David Crystal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1264 |
Release | 1998-04-16 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780521630993 |
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers an invaluable Ready Reference section with lists of political leaders and rulers, Nobel Prizewinners, patron saints, sports champions and many more. Acclaimed on its first publication in 1994 as a new kind of biographical reference book, the Encyclopedia is now established as a reliable source of information on over 26,000 people, fully cross-referenced. The book's international coverage and devotion to important figures - both historical and contemporary - in science and the arts as well as sports and popular personalities make it unique. This Second Edition has been comprehensively updated and supplemented with new entries.
Biographical Encyclopedia of the World. Third Edition
Title | Biographical Encyclopedia of the World. Third Edition PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 3 |
Release | 1946 |
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ISBN |
Biographical Encyclopedia of the World
Title | Biographical Encyclopedia of the World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1332 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Biography |
ISBN |
Not to be Missed
Title | Not to be Missed PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Turan |
Publisher | Public Affairs |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 158648396X |
The images and memories that matter most are those that are unshakeable, unforgettable. Kenneth Turan’s fifty-four favorite films embrace a century of the world’s most satisfying romances and funniest comedies, the most heart-stopping dramas and chilling thrillers. Turan discovered film as a child left undisturbed to watch Million Dollar Movie on WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York, a daily showcase for older Hollywood features. It was then that he developed a love of cinema that never left him and honed his eye for the most acute details and the grandest of scenes. Not to be Missed blends cultural criticism, historical anecdote, and inside-Hollywood controversy. Turan’s selection of favorites ranges across all genres. From All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Sherlock Jr., these are all timeless films—classic and contemporary, familiar and obscure, with big budgets and small—each underscoring the truth of director Ingmar Bergman’s observation that “no form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”
The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary
Title | The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | David Crystal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521567800 |
Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present