With Authors & Artists for Young Adults teens have a source where they can discover fascinating and entertaining facts about the writers, artists, film directors, graphic novelists, and other creative personalities that most interest them. International in scope, each volume contains 20-25 entries offering personal behind-the-scenes information, portraits, movie stills, bibliographies, a cumulative index and more.

For table of contents or other volume specific information see the entry for the volume.

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries.

For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.

Newsmakers - published quarterly in softcover - provides timely and informative profiles of the worlds most interesting people. A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation and subject. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers.

Find key information on more than 3,000 ministers and heads of state in 199 countries, including date and place of birth; education; family status; political party affiliation; private and political career; and contact information.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

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This popular series brings you extensive biographical and career information on more than 20, 000 professionals currently working in the entertainment industry, including performers, choreographers, directors, technicians, writers, composers, producers, executives, designers, critics and more. Recent biographees include: Drew Carey and Kathy Kinney Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Hecht Kevin Sorbo and Lucy Lawless Damon Wayans and Keenan Ivory Wayans Dennis Miller and Sandra Bernhard Deidre Hall and Joan Lunden And many, many others Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television includes birth dates, parental and marriage information, education data (including professional training), political and religious affiliations and military service -- plus, details on writings, recordings, awards and nominations and memberships

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the worlds most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries.

Consult this reference for biographical information on more than 4, 500 figures in todays musical arena. Covering all genres of modern music, Contemporary Musicians profiles artists involved in rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae. Looking for information on Front man Trent Reznor? Need a list of Van Cliburns early recordings or background details on Johnny Mercers musical career? Music lovers, students, teachers, journalists and other researchers will appreciate and enjoy the lively and descriptive essays of this excellent series. Contemporary Musicians offers biographical statistics, detailed source information, critical essays, selected discographies and, whenever available addresses for the leaders, the legends and the up-and-coming celebrities of popular and classical music. Also provided is a list of selected books, magazines, newspapers and other sources where more information can be found. Nearly every entry contains a photograph of the featured subject. This source is up-to-date with coverage of the performers and writers who interest readers, drawn from the various musical genres as represented by the breakdown of record sales. The series also covers past artists whose accomplishments still have an impact on todays music. This reference is appealing to students because of its contemporary focus, easy format and style. Each volume is alphabeticall

En 1990, a l'initiative du Professeur Hans Andersson, un premier colloque regroupant des enseignants d'archeologie medievale en Europe a eu lieu a l'universite de Lund (Suede). Un second colloque a ete organise a Budapest (Hongrie) par les Professeurs Andreas Kubinyi et Jozsef Laszlovszky en 1993. Ces deux premiers colloques ont reuni des archeologues enseignant dans de nombreuses universites europeennes. Le troisieme colloque a eu lieu a Caen (France), berceau de l'archeologie medievale depuis Arcisse de Caumont au XIXe siecle jusqu'a Michel de Bouard qui crea en 1955 le Centre de Recherches Archeologiques Medievales de l'Universite de Caen, en 1962 les colloques de castellologie " Chateau Gaillard " et en 1971, la revue " Archeologie Medievale ." Ces institutions et ces publications, parfaitement vivantes, ont servi de base a l'organisation du 3e colloque et a la publication des Actes. Le colloque de Caen comprenait deux parties: une partie reservee a l'enseignement de l'archeologie medievale dans les differentes universites europeennes (contenu de l'enseignement et methode), une autre partie destinee a faire le point notamment sur des problemes archeologiques et historiques relatifs au peuplement, habitat, origine des villages et paroisses, cimetiere et anthropologie.

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries.

For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries.

For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.

Each annual supplement to the Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd Edition, contains 200 biographical entries new to the set. Each volume includes a balance of historic and contemporary figures who, like those appearing in the Encyclopedia of World Biography base set, have made a significant contribution to human culture and society. Entries offer an in-depth biographical essay approximately 2, 000 words in length, as well as a bibliographic section, which may include books, periodicals, or online websites to consult for further research. Many entries include a portrait of the individual.

Newsmakers -- published quarterly in softcover -- provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people. A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation and subject. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers.