Kategoria BISAC: Reference >> Encyclopedias

This fully updated edition offers over 11,000 entries, each providing clear, up-to-date coverage of specialist nursing terms including diseases, symptoms, anatomy, instruments, common drugs and biological terms. It covers both everyday vocabulary relating to patient care and terms from medical specialisations such as psychiatry.

It provides the user with a complete guide to the vocabulary likely to be encountered by nurses (and other health care professionals) in their day-to-day work.

New Makers of Modern Culture is the successor to the classic reference works Makers of Modern Culture and Makers of Nineteenth-Century Culture, published by Routledge in the early 1980s. The set was extremely successful and continues to be used to this day, due to the high quality of the writing, the distinguished contributors, and the cultural sensitivity shown in the selection of those individuals included. New Makers of Modern Culture takes into full account the rise and fall of reputation and influence over the last twenty-five years and the epochal changes that have occurred: the...

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.

This volume:

• examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers
• includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen
• contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing,...

New Makers of Modern Culture is the successor to the classic reference works Makers of Modern Culture and Makers of Nineteenth-Century Culture, published by Routledge in the early 1980s. The set was extremely successful and continues to be used to this day, due to the high quality of the writing, the distinguished contributors, and the cultural sensitivity shown in the selection of those individuals included. New Makers of Modern Culture takes into full account the rise and fall of reputation and influence over the last twenty-five years and the epochal changes that have occurred: the...

Die Enzyklopadie vereint erstmals Pseudonyme weltweit und aus allen Epochen und Lebensbereichen in einem Werk: Etwa 500.000 Pseudonyme zu ca. 270.000 Personen werden entschlusselt. Neben Pseudonymen im engeren Sinn werden auch Initialen, Spitznamen, Ordens-, Geburts- und Ehenamen usw. aufgenommen.

The Encyclopedia covers...

The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization. This book appears as an answer to a felt need: to catalogue and describe those languages, making up the vast majority of the world's six thousand or more distinct tongues, which are in danger of disappearing within the next few decades.

Endangerment is a complex issue, and the reasons why so many of the world's smaller, less empowered languages are not being passed on to future generations today are discussed in the...

The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.

The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of Dance, Education, Film, Health, Homophobia, the Internet, Literature, Music, Performance, and Politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a wide array of backgrounds: scholars, journalists, artists, doctors, scientists, lawyers, activists, and an...

Nach Abschluss der 36 Textbande der Theologischen Realenzyklopadie im Jahr 2004 wurde das Gesamtkorpus durch ein neu erstelltes Register erschlossen. Fur biographische und geographische Recherchen wurde damit ein einzigartiges Hilfsmittel geschaffen.

Das Gesamtregister besteht aus zwei Banden: Band I (Bibelstellen, Orte, Sachen), Band II (Namen). Die Bande werden damit zu einem unverzichtbaren Werkzeug fur die Erschliessung aller in der TRE enthaltenen Texte.

Neben der Halbleder-Ausgabe erscheint das Gesamtregister nun unverkurzt als handliche, zweiteilige...