A handy two-volume set that makes it easy to look up 550 worldwide cultural icons: actors in theatre and film, architects, novelists, writers, creative journalists, composers, conductors, virtuoso performers, choreographers, dancers, film directors and producers, opera performers, painters, sculptors, photographers, poets, popular music figures, impresarios, television personalities and playwrights. World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth & Twenty-First Centuries provides entries (many of them illustrated) covering the individualAEs works, achievements, and professional career in a thorough...

Many changes are occuring in the U.S printing ink industry. Digital printing is having an impact on traditional ink products, and ink jet is making inroads in applications now held by lithography, screen and other inks. Further trends are occuring in waterborne, waterless, and specialty inks. Electronics inks, a new technique, bear watching.

The Rauch Guide to the US Plastics Industry provides industry structure and current market information about this $182 billion US industry. The report is divided into 6 major chapters with 130+ tables and 30 figures in its 700 pages.

The Rauch Guide to the US Adhesives & Sealants Industry provides the most compressive marketing report on the business available anywhere. It covers all aspects of the industry from raw materials to formulated products to producers. All this at a price substantially below competitors, and at an affordable to all!

The second edition of the Rauch Rubber Guide provides industry structure and current market information about the $39 billion US rubber industry which faces intense inter-material competition and severe government regulation. The report contains a wealth of marketing and related technical information about the business.

The Rauch Guide to the US & Canadian Pulp & Paper Industry , first edition, provides industry structure and current market information about the $158-billion US and $29-billion pulp and paper industry which faces intense competition and severe government regulation. The report contains a wealth of marketing and related technical information about the business.

Each volume in the widely-successful Working Americans series focuses on a particular type of American and illustrates what life was like for that group from the 1800s to the present time. The volumes are arranged into decade-long chapters, each introducing to the reader three individuals or families. Individual profiles examine life at home, life at work, life in the community, family finances and budget, cost of living and amusements. To further the readerAEs understanding of the time period, profiles are supplemented with national current events, economic profiles, an historical snapshot,...

Each state-by-state volume in this series provides at-a-glance detailed demographic and statistical data on every populated place in the state, along with easy-to-use comparative rankings. Each Demographic Profile gives the user an easy-to-read snapshot of every single place and county in the state, from the biggest metropolis to the smallest unincorporated hamlet. Each profile offers data on History, Geography, Climate, Population, Vital Statistics, Economy, Income, Taxes, Education, Housing, Health & Environment, Public Safety and more. The richness of each profile is astounding in its...

The year 2009 marks the 200-year anniversary of Charles DarwinAEs birth. This timely update of The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries.