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Anna Kournikova Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Russian: Анна Сергеевна Курникова (listen (help·info)), Anna Sergeevna Kurnikova; born June 7, 1981) is a retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Although she never won a... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,440 words) in 1 product

Alfons Maria Jakob Alfons Maria Jakob (born July 2, 1884, Aschaffenburg/Bavaria; died October 17, 1931, Hamburg) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology. Alfons Maria Jakob was the son of a shopkeeper. He studied medicine in Mu... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (376 words) in 1 product

Atheism   "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase," that's how Martin Luther King Jr. described the process of faith during a speech he delivered in the sixties. King Jr. was a strong advocate for peace and raci... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 1 Essay, 1 Quotes About 166 pages (49,797 words) in 5 products

Agnosticism   Agnosticism In the most general use of the term, "agnosticism" is the view that we do not know whether there is a God or not. Although the history of agnosticism, in this general sense, is continuous with that of skepticism (... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 26 pages (7,859 words) in 3 products

Argon Argon is a noble gas, one of the elements that make up Group 18 of the periodic table. Its atomic number is 18, its atomic mass is 39.948, and its chemical symbol is Ar. Argon is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas with a density of 1.78... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 16 pages (4,867 words) in 4 products

Arsenic   Arsenic is the element with an atomic number of 33. Its atomic weight is 74.9216, and its chemical symbol is As. It usually occurs as a silver-gray brittle solid, but it has at least two other allotropic forms. One is a black amorphous sol... Study Pack: 8 Summaries About 28 pages (8,493 words) in 8 products

Antimony Antimony is the fourth element in Group 15 of the periodic table. Its atomic number is 51, its atomic mass is 121.75, and its chemical symbol is Sb. Antimony is a metalloid. It exists in three allotropic forms: a silvery white metal; a ye... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 17 pages (5,058 words) in 4 products

Actinium   Actinium is the third element in Row 7 of the periodic table. Its atomic number is 89 and chemical symbol is Ac. Actinium is a radioactive element, whose most common isotope has a mass of 227. Only a limited amount of information is known... Study Pack: 5 Summaries About 13 pages (4,024 words) in 5 products

Americium Americium is a transuranium element, one of the elements that lies beyond uranium in the periodic table. Its atomic number is 92, and the mass of its most stable isotope is 243. Its chemical symbol is Am. Americium does not occur in natur... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 10 pages (3,036 words) in 4 products

Astatine Astatine is a member of the halogen family, the elements that make up Group 17 of the periodic table. Its atomic number is 85, its atomic mass is 209.9871, and its chemical symbol is At. All isotopes of astatine are radioactive. They have... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 8 pages (2,250 words) in 4 products

Atom   Democritus- a Greek thinker who called nature's basic particles atoms. (indivisible) Aristotle- didn't believe in atoms, thought all matter was continuous. Chemical reaction- transformation of substance(s) into one or more new substances.... Study Pack: 9 Summaries, 1 Essay About 68 pages (20,371 words) in 10 products

Arable land Arable land has soil and topography suitable for economical and practical cultivation of crops. These range from grains, grasses, and legumes to fruits and vegetables. Permanent pastures and rangelands are not considered arable. Forested l... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 4 pages (1,069 words) in 2 products

Aluminium   Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the earth's crust, ranking only behind oxygen and silicon. It makes up about 9% of the earth's crust, making it the most abundant of all metals. The chemical symbol for aluminum,... Study Pack: 7 Summaries About 38 pages (11,497 words) in 7 products

Advanced Chemistry Advanced Chemistry is a German hip hop group from Heidelberg, a scenic city in Baden-Württemberg, South Germany. Advanced Chemistry was founded in 1987 by Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One, DJ Mike MD (Mike Dippon) and MC Torch. Nowadays, it is sa... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (258 words) in 1 product

Abdication Abdication (from the Latin abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, away from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,440 words) in 1 product

Anglican Communion Anglican Communion its 'instruments of unity': Archbishop of Canterbury Lambeth Conferences Primates' Meeting Anglican Consultative Council... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,403 words) in 1 product

Arne Kaijser Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is a professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the head of the university's department of History of science and technology. Kaijser has published two books in Swedish... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (109 words) in 1 product

Archipelago An archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago literally means "chief sea", from Greek arkhon (arkhi-) ("leader") and pelagos ("sea"). In antiquity, the Archipelago (Greek: Αρхιπέλαγος) was the proper name ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (243 words) in 1 product

Arthur Conan Doyle by Sidney Kingsley   It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had become popular through the works of his p... Study Pack: 7 Biographies, 2 Summaries, 1 Criticism, 1 Quotes About 249 pages (74,663 words) in 11 products

Andrey Markov Born into an upper class family in Ryazan, Russia, Markov suffered from poor health throughout his childhood, but he exhibited keen intelligence and had a talent for mathematics that attracted the attention of his high school teachers. He ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 3 Summaries About 8 pages (2,410 words) in 5 products

Alumnus Used affectionately to a woman of any age. The ‘old’ refers to friendly familiarity. In The Dream of Fair Women, by Henry Williamson, it is used by an English army officer to his young wife. In The Needle, by Francis King, a br... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (645 words) in 1 product

Angst   EVERYONE FEELS DEPRESSED at times. Illness, the loss of a family member, the breakup of a relationship— these misfortunes and many more are natural causes of sadness and mourning. It is normal to feel depressed about a loss or failure... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Viewpoint About 80 pages (23,966 words) in 2 products

Anxiety   What's the origin of these traits that perpetuate anxiety? Such traits as creativity and emotional sensitivity may well be part of the hereditary component of anxiety disorders. On the other hand, perfectionism and excessive need for a... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 1 Essay, 2 Quotes About 18 pages (5,374 words) in 7 products

A. A. Milne   A.A. Milne (1882-1956) worked as an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and an adult novelist, in addition to his important contribution as an author of juvenile books. Although he attempted to excel in all literary genres, he was master of Ch... Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 1 Summary, 4 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 128 pages (38,344 words) in 11 products

Alumni Athletic Club Alumni Athletic Club, usually just Alumni, is a rugby union and former football (soccer) sports club from the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires in Argentina. The club was founded in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School. The ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (402 words) in 1 product

Addiction   Drugs seem to occupy the American conscience. Hardly a day passes without some notice of drugs in newspapers and on TV. Addictions are uncontrollable actions. There are good addictions and bad addictions. A person can be addicted to nic... Study Pack: 9 Summaries, 2 Viewpoints, 2 Essays, 1 Quotes About 376 pages (112,869 words) in 14 products

Axiom Postulates and theorems are the building blocks for proof and deduction in any mathematical system, such as geometry, algebra, or trigonometry. By using postulates to prove theorems, which can then prove further theorems, mathematicians ha... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 20 pages (5,927 words) in 4 products

Alpha (letter) Alpha (Greek ἄλφα), (uppercase Α, lowercase α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph . Letters that arose from Alpha include th... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (678 words) in 1 product

Alvin Toffler   Alvin Toffler, the most popular futurist in America, became a celebrity in the 1960s and 1970s for his predictions and suggestions for ways people could cope with the unprecedented rate of change initiated by new technologies. With the pub... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Essay, 10 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 85 pages (25,351 words) in 14 products

The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man (started in 1963) is the title of a comic book published by Marvel Comics . Contents 1 Amazing Fantasy #15 2 Issue 1 3 Issue 3 4 Issue 4 5 Issue 7 6 Issue 12 7 Issue 14 8 Issue 29 9 Issue 30 10 Issue 39 11 Issue 41 1... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Quotes About 35 pages (10,391 words) in 2 products

Archie Archie is a given name of English origin. It is a popular diminutive of Archibald, meaning true, bold, and valuable. In fiction:... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (260 words) in 1 product

AM AM or Am may refer to: Artium Magister, alternative abbreviation for a Master's degree in Arts Americium, a chemical element with symbol Am Arthur-Merlin protocol, an interactive proof system in computational complexity theory Automated Mat... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (354 words) in 1 product

Automated Alice Automated Alice is a fantastical book by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1996. The book follows Alice's travels to a future Manchester city populated by Newmonians, Civil Serpents and a vanishing cat. The book was written as bo... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (179 words) in 1 product

Antigua and Barbuda   CAPITAL: St. John's FLAG: Centered on a red background is a downward-pointing triangle divided horizontally into three bands of black, light blue, and white, the black stripe bearing a symbol of the rising sun in yellow. ANTHEM: Beg... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 41 pages (12,217 words) in 4 products

Azincourt For other uses of Agincourt, see Agincourt. Coordinates: 50°27′50″N, 2°7′43″E Azincourt (historically, Agincourt in English) is a village commune of France, situated in the Pas-de-Calais département and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (317 words) in 1 product

Albert Speer   Albert Speer (1905-1081) may have known of the atrocities committed in Germany during the Nazi era, but claimed he did not. He insisted that he was only "following orders" and had no knowledge of the details. Speer received a 20-year priso... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary, 3 Essays, 1 Quotes About 42 pages (12,572 words) in 7 products

Alliaceae The Alliaceae or onion family was once included in the monocot family Liliaceae, but is now recognized by many as a separate plant family. The family includes herbaceous (nonwoody) monocot plants that are generally perennial but not evergr... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 2 pages (690 words) in 2 products

Asteraceae Asteraceae (or Compositae), the sunflower family, is the largest family of flowering plants, encompassing some fifteen hundred genera and nearly twenty-five thousand species. Most species are herbs, but some are shrubs and a few are trees.... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 7 pages (2,178 words) in 2 products

Apiaceae The Apiaceae or Umbelliferae (both names are allowed by the ICBN) is a family of usually aromatic plants with hollow stems. It includes cumin, parsley, carrot, dill, caraway, fennel, and other relatives. It is a large family with about 300 ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (421 words) in 1 product

Axon The axon, also called the nerve fiber, is the part of the nerve cell (neuron) which transmits nervous impulses. The axon leaves the nerve cell body (or soma) at an area called the axon hillock. Little offshoots from the axon are called axo... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 6 pages (1,785 words) in 3 products

Aramaic alphabet Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,309 words) in 1 product

AWK (disambiguation) AWK may refer to AWK (programming language) (after names of its inventors, Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan) The National Rail code for Adwick railway station, United Kingdom Andrew W.K., a pop/rock musician See also Auk... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (36 words) in 1 product

As We May Think As We May Think is an essay by Vannevar Bush, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945. Bush argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collec... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (241 words) in 1 product

American shot "American shot" is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, "plan américain" and refers to a medium-long ("knee") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera. The usual arrangemen... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (171 words) in 1 product

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune mediated disease of brain. It usually occurs following a viral infection or vaccination, but it may also appear spontaneously. It is similar in some ways to multiple sclerosis, and is... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (646 words) in 1 product

Ataxia Ataxia Lack of coordination in the muscles. Ataxia, an extreme lack of coordination of the muscles, is a symptom of damage to the central nervous system. People with ataxia typically stand with feet planted far apart, and sway while standi... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 6 pages (1,718 words) in 2 products

Abdul Alhazred Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. He is the so-called "Mad Arab" credited with authoring the imaginary sufic book Kitab al-Azif (the Necronomicon), and as such an integral part of Cth... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,075 words) in 1 product

Ada Lovelace   In her 1843 translation of an article on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Byron Lovelace (1815-1852) added notations three times the length of the original text. The "Notes" earned her a place in computer history when they were lat... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 5 Summaries About 24 pages (7,329 words) in 8 products

Ambient calculus In computer science, the ambient calculus is a process calculus devised by Luca Cardelli and Andrew D. Gordon in 1998, and used to describe and theorise about concurrent systems that include mobility. Here mobility means both computation ca... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (550 words) in 1 product

August Derleth   August Derleth, a versatile and prolific author, combined a deep and abiding love of nature with a respect and reverence for his Germanic roots and his Wisconsin heritage. During the course of a career which began at age fifteen, when he s... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 44 Criticisms About 67 pages (20,188 words) in 47 products