Presents a comprehensive guide to the geography of the world, with world maps and articles on cartography, notable explorers, climate and more.

Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Third Edition is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference offering international coverage of this timely and fascinating subject. This updated volume provides concise descriptions of more than 700.

Contains over 1,000 entries in an A to Z format, that provide information related to women's health and health problems.

This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day.

... The time span covered ... extends from prehistory to the present; however, biographies of living persons are excluded." -- Introduction.

Covers all the people, events, movements, subjects, court cases, inventions, and more that defined the Gilded Age.

Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of ...

In a detailed analysis of the trading operations of European corporate enterprises such as the English and Dutch East India Companies, as well as those of private European traders, this book considers how, over a span of three centuries, ...

Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Opera, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of opera available in paperback.