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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who)
This lexicon provides a condensed survey of over 850 prominent personalities of Slovakia, from ancient times to the present who have played a visible role in all the various spheres of creative work, including artistic, scientific, literary, economic and sociopolitical. First published in Slovak under the title Reprezentacny Biograficky Lexikon Slovenska by Matica Slovenska in 1999. This English translation is also a collaborative work co-published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. and Matica Slovenska. Each entry includes diacritical marks. This book is the first biographical dictionary in English of prominent Slovaks. Besides such entries as banker Michal Bosak, cononized saint Andrej Svorad, music composer Alexander Albrecht, inventor Jozef Murgas, filmmaking pioneers Jan Kadar and Daniel Siakel, and artist Andy Warhol, there are over 850 other Slovaks who have contributed through their art, technology, and poetry to the amelioration of the human condition and to the enrichment of world civilization and culture.
Outlines the lives and achievements of some 19,000 of the most influential men and women from almost every country in the world. From heads of state, politicians, religious leaders and ambassadors, to the eminent and successful in business, finance, technology, film, music, fashion, sport, literature and the performing arts. * Entries are included on merit and achievement * Fully updated every year to ensure accuracy * Provides invaluable information on the headline makers * Replaces numerous single-nation directories saving you time and money in your research * Includes the CD-ROM version with its powerful search facilities, attractively laid out screens and clear on-screen instructions.
This major new reference book presents more than 700 biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries and richly illustrates the variety and complexity of the life of the period he lived. With its useful glossary of unusual terms, and extensive cross-references, this invaluable book emphasizes the cultural continuity between the last phase of Elizabethan England and the Jacobean age, and the authors also pay attention to American connections. This extensive and detailed study will be invaluable to all those interested in Shakespeare and his times.
This volume is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography or geographical thought. Each chapter describes the geographer's education, life and work, discusses their influence, and includes a bibliography of their works.
This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back as Leizu's Chinese sericulture in 2700 B.C.E. and continue all the way to the March 2021 mural exhibition by Malaysian painter Caryn Koh. Entries for each artist feature biographical information, cultural context and a survey of notable works. Covering creators known for prophecy, dance, epic and oratory, the compendium includes obscure artists and more familiar names, like biblical war poet Deborah, Judaean dancer Salome, Byzantine Empress Theodora and Myanmar freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi. In an effort to relieve unfamiliarity with parts of the world poorly represented in art history, it focuses on Asian women often passed over in global art surveys.
In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most
celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical
writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and
contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By
Herself, Vol. II represent three generations, four continents, and
a range of experience that is equaled only by the diversity with
which they transform life into literature.
"Belongs on the shelf of classics about surviving degradation with
dignity and even humor." Time "From the Paperback edition."
Great movements have leaders and leaders have moments when commitments are made, when new attitudes are formed, when new directions are chosen, and when distant visions are transformed into realities. This inspirational book examines some of these important times--occasions when notable people, during moments of crisis and insight, found the grace and strength to change our world for the better, forever.
Who's Who 2019 is the 171st edition of the world's longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date for the year ahead. The first autobiographical reference book in the world and, after 170 years, still the most accurate and reliable resource for information supplied and checked by the entrants themselves. 'The famous red covers of Who's Who are exclusive and only the enduringly notable get into them... After a week with the new Who's Who (and though it's heavy to pick up) "you can't put it down" best describes my feeling.' - Matthew Parris, The Times 'The unrivalled compendium of the good and the great' - The Daily Telegraph 'Who's Who is a mirror in which society glimpses a reflection of its own achievement.' -The Times 'Britain's most famous reference book ...a biographical record of the great and the good.' - Daily Mail
The Polish Biographical Dictionary is a compact reference tool covering 1,000 years of Polish history through brief biographical sketches of nearly 900 Poles. From the arts to the military, that famous to the infamous, Poles whose lives have made a lasting contribution to civilization are profiled in this edition. Nobel Prize winners, saints, dancers, geniuses, world leaders, inventors, and scoundrels are among the entries. -- 18 portraits plus a map -- A brief history of Poland by the Most Rev. Alfred L. Abramowicz -- Bibliographic references for further research -- Foreword by Edward G. Dykla, President of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America -- Index arranged alphabetically by area of accomplishment
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