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A. J. A. Symons A. J. A. Symons is remembered chiefly for his biography of Fr[ederick] Rolfe (or Baron Corvo). He did, however, publish two other substantial biographies and a range of miscellaneous works in his short life, and his younger brother, the pr... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,591 words) in 1 product

A. J. Cronin A. J. Cronin was a novelist, dramatist, and nonfiction writer whose works examine moral conflicts between the individual and society as his idealistic heroes pursue justice for the common man. His moralistic novels are known by the public ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 15 Criticisms About 35 pages (10,561 words) in 16 products

A. J. Foyt A. J. Foyt is one of the premier names in motor sports, having enjoyed an auto racing career that spanned four decades, beginning in the 1950s. No other driver achieved such a unique combination of longevity, dominance, and versatility in ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 13 pages (3,798 words) in 1 product

A. J. M. Smith In 1976 at Michigan State University, American and Canadian scholars and poets gathered to honor A. J. M. Smith, seventy-four-year-old doyen of Canadian letters. It is fitting that such a symposium should have been held at an American univ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 9 Criticisms About 29 pages (8,823 words) in 10 products

A. J. Muste   Abraham Johannes Muste (1885-1967), American pacifist, led the movement for world peace and pioneered in developing nonviolent resistance as a means of securing social change. On Jan. 8, 1885, A. J. Muste was born in Zierikzee, the Netherl... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 28 pages (8,420 words) in 2 products

A. L. Kennedy A. L. Kennedy is one of the most consistently energetic and critically acclaimed novelists to have emerged from Scotland in the closing years of the twentieth century. Since the early 1990s she has produced novels, collections of short sto... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 26 Criticisms About 120 pages (35,886 words) in 27 products

A. L. Rowse Known for his scholarship in history, his insight into literature, and his own literary creativity, A. L. Rowse is also respected as one of the foremost British biographers of the twentieth century. Focusing on but not limiting himself to ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 19 pages (5,706 words) in 1 product

A. M. Klein   A. M. Klein (1909-1972), journalist and lawyer, was widely regarded as one of Canada's leading poets. His novel The Second Scroll has been acclaimed by scholars and critics as a masterpiece. He contributed significantly to the emergence of... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 6 Criticisms About 52 pages (15,613 words) in 8 products

A. N. Wilson A. N. Wilson's novels have enjoyed immediate critical success in Britain, and he has worked rapidly to consolidate his reputation with a series of books which combine high comedy with increasingly serious and complex interpretations of Bri... Study Pack: 3 Biographies About 41 pages (12,404 words) in 3 products

A. P. de Candolle Swiss Botanist1778-1841 Augustin de Candolle was a Swiss botanist who advanced significant ideas concerning the classification of plants and developed a taxonomic scheme that provided the foundation for much work in taxonomy up to the pres... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 6 pages (1,810 words) in 2 products

A. P. Herbert Alan Patrick Herbert, recognized by the familiar initials A. P. H., wrote more than fifty books: musical comedies, novels, plays, light verse, reviews, and articles. A versatile author, he charmed a nation for more than fifty years with hi... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 20 pages (5,944 words) in 2 products

A. Philip Randolph   The American labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), considered the most prominent of all African American trade unionists, was one of the major figures in the struggle for civil rights. The son of an itinerant minist... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 4 Summaries About 65 pages (19,603 words) in 6 products

A. R. Gurney A. R. Gurney is one of the few major playwrights to emerge in the 1960s and maintain a flourishing stage career four decades later. His plays continue to be performed widely Off-Broadway and in resident, summer stock, community, and academ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 17 Criticisms About 43 pages (12,822 words) in 18 products

A. R. Rahman (b. 1966), Indian film-music composer. Allah Rakha Rahman is considered to be the most innovative Indian film-music composer of his generation. He was born A. S. Dileep Kumar in Madras, India, to a musically talented family. Rahman'... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,290 words) in 1 product

A. S. Byatt Although thus far she has written only three novels, A. S. Byatt has nonetheless achieved a distinguished place as a person of letters in the last two decades. As novelist, critic, reviewer, editor, and lecturer, Byatt offers in her work a... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 11 Criticisms About 72 pages (21,642 words) in 13 products

A. S. Neill The Scottish psychologist Alexander Sutherland Neill (1883- 1973) is most famous as the founder of Summerhill School and as the developer of its radical child-centered theory of education. A Failure at School Born in Forfar, Scotland, on O... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (1,979 words) in 1 product

A. S. W. Rosenbach Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach was called the "Napoleon of Books" by the New Yorker, the "Terror of the Auction Room" by the London tabloids, and "the most scholarly bookseller in [America]" by the writer and collector A. Edward Newton. He bought ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 15 pages (4,392 words) in 1 product

The A.B.C. Murders The Garden-of-Live-Flowers incident in the Alice-mythos anticipates the method of the modern detection-fan. To find the Red Queen he has learnt to go in the most unlikely direction. So now the hard-pressed writer is inclined to try a double... Study Pack: 1 Criticism About 6 pages (1,898 words) in 1 product

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada (1896-1977) was a Hindu religious teacher who at the age of 69 came to the United States where he taught the practice of devotion to Krishna and founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Ab... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,023 words) in 2 products

A.I. (film) SOURCE: Arthur, Paul. “Movie of the Moment: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.” Film Comment 37, no. 4 (July-August 2001): 22-3. In the following review, Arthur perceives A.I.: Artificial Intelligence to be an unsuccessful amalgamation of S... Study Pack: 7 Criticisms About 52 pages (15,652 words) in 7 products

A. J. Liebling   Abbott Joseph Liebling's Between Meals (1962) is a singular reminiscence about his year as a student in Paris during the twenties. Born in New York City, Liebling paid his first visits to Paris as a child on European tours with his family,... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 23 pages (7,033 words) in 2 products

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Aage Niels Bohr Aage Bohr followed his father, the eminent physicist Niels Bohr, into the field of theoretical physics. Bohr's father was director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen and instrumental in the development of the Manhattan ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,691 words) in 2 products

Aaliyah Being True To Myself "She was always a hard worker. Always. That was just her." ~Timberland Aaliyah Dana Haughton was more than just a one hit wonder, she was a woman with a true talent for singing, acting and being an indi... Study Pack: 2 Essays About 26 pages (7,658 words) in 2 products

Aaron AARON, or, in Hebrew, Aharon; Israelite leader and priest who flourished, according to tradition, in the thirteenth century BCE. In its redacted form, the Pentateuch provides a fairly complete biography of Aaron, the first priest in the bi... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 17 pages (4,990 words) in 1 product

Aaron Burr American lawyer and politician Aaron Burr (1756-1836) was vice president under Thomas Jefferson. After his term of office he conspired to invade Spanish territory in the Southwest and to separate certain western areas from the United State... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 61 pages (18,411 words) in 4 products

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was one of the most important figures in American music during the second quarter of the 20th century, both as a composer and as a spokesman who was concerned about making Americans conscious of the importance of ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 16 pages (4,733 words) in 2 products

Aaron Douglas Born May 26, 1899 Topeka, Kansas Died February 22, 1979 Nashville, Tennessee American painter, illustrator, and educator Aaron Douglas's distinctive artistic style brought the Harlem Renaissance to life on magazine covers, book ja... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,186 words) in 1 product

Aaron Hill Aaron Hill is usually recognized because of others' achievements, not his own. He is probably better known as one of Alexander Pope's targets in the Dunciad than for his own poetry. So, too, his role in the development of the periodical or... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 32 pages (9,661 words) in 1 product

Aaron Klug Aaron Klug was born on August 11, 1926, in Zelvas, Lithuania, the son of Lazar Klug, a cattle dealer, and Bella Silin Klug. When he was two years old, he and his parents emigrated to Durban, South Africa. While attending Durban High School... Study Pack: 4 Biographies About 14 pages (4,124 words) in 4 products

Aaron Montgomery Ward American merchant Aaron Montgomery Ward (1843-1913) helped create mail-order merchandising and built the large mail-order house which bears his name. Born in Chatham, N.Y., A. Montgomery Ward moved to Niles, Mich., with his parents. He wen... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,504 words) in 1 product

Aaron Sorkin If verisimilitude were the benchmark for dramatic success, then writer and producer Aaron Sorkin, creator of the popular and iconoclastic television series The West Wing, would score one hundred percent. So real has his presidential charac... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 38 pages (11,527 words) in 1 product

Aaron Spelling The most successful producer in the history of television, Aaron Spelling began his career with writer/producer credits on such classic early television fare as Zane Grey Theater and Playhouse 90 in the 1950s, and 40 years later has more t... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,419 words) in 1 product

Aaron's Rod (novel) by D. H. Lawrence Study Pack: 8 Biographies, 1 eBook About 574 pages (172,107 words) in 9 products

Nathan Aaseng Nathan Aaseng is a prolific writer of juvenile nonfiction and fiction with over 130 titles to his credit. While much of his early work was done in the field of sports, writing several popular series such as "You Are the Coach" for the Minn... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,776 words) in 1 product

Abū Al-Hudhayl Al-ʿallāf ABŪ AL-HUDHAYL AL-ʿALLᾹF (d. between AH 227 and 235, 842 and 850 CE), more fully Abū al-Hudhayl Muḥammad ibn al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf al-ʿAbdī; Muslim theologian of the Muʿt... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (611 words) in 1 product

Abacus   The abacus, an ancient calculating device, probably originated in Babylon around 2400 B. C. E. as a "counting box." It was the world's first calculator, and contemporary versions are still in use today. An abacus is a ... Study Pack: 7 Summaries About 27 pages (8,003 words) in 7 products

Abadan (1997 est. pop. 308,000). The Iranian city of Abadan is located in the southeast corner of the country along the east bank of the Shatt al Arab River, 55 kilometers from the Persian Gulf. Its population is mainly Persian, though with a con... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,715 words) in 1 product

Abay Qunanbayuli (1845–1904), Kazakh writer, poet, lyricist, social philosopher. Born in Kazakhstan in Semey province, Abai Kunanbaev (Ibragim Qunanbaiuly ) was educated at home and then sent to a medressa (Muslim religious school) where he learned ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (945 words) in 1 product

The Abandoned Room Study Pack: 1 eBook About 226 pages (67,683 words) in 1 product

Abangan Abangan (Javanese "red") is a term popularized by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz (b. 1926) to describe the rural Javanese Muslims whose Islam is blended syncretistically with older animist and Hindu-Buddhist beliefs. The ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (683 words) in 1 product

ABBA Associated with the disco scene of the 1970s, the Swedish quartet ABBA generated high charting hits for an entire decade, and for years trailed only the Volvo motor company as Sweden's biggest export. Comprised of two romantic coupl... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 44 pages (13,048 words) in 1 product

Abba Arika The Jewish scholar Abba Arika (ca. 175-ca. 247), also known as Rav, founded a yeshiva, or academy, in Sura, Babylonia. The school remained an important center of Jewish learning until the 11th century. Abba Arika was born to an aristocrati... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 10 pages (2,838 words) in 2 products

Abba Eban The Israeli statesman, diplomat, and scholar Abba Eban (born 1915) served as Israel's United Nations representative and ambassador to the United States until 1959. He was Israel's foreign minister between 1966 and 1974. Abba Solomon Eban w... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,274 words) in 1 product

Abba Hillel Silver Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963), rabbi and Zionist leader, was considered among the most prominent leaders of American Judaism. Abba H. Silver, the son of Moses and Diana Silver, was born in Neinstadt, Lithuania, on Jan. 28, 1893. He was th... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 2 pages (675 words) in 1 product

Abbahu ABBAHU (fl. toward the turn of the fourth century CE), Palestinian amora. Abbahu was the younger contemporary of both Shimʿon ben Laqish ("Resh Laqish") and Elʿazar ben Pedat, with whom he studied, but his main ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,476 words) in 1 product

Abbas I of Persia Abbas I (1571-1629), called "the Great," was a shah of Persia, the fifth king of the Safavid dynasty. He brought Persia once again to the zenith of power and influence politically, economically, and culturally. The greatest shah of the Saf... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,111 words) in 1 product

Abbas Ibn Firnas d. 873 Arab Spanish inventor who devised and demonstrated a glider. A native of Cordoba, Ibn Firnas experimented with the manufacture of glass and developed a chain of rings to depict the motions of the stars and planets. Eventually, howev... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,267 words) in 1 product

Abbaye ABBAYE (d. c. 338), a leading fourth-generation Babylonian amora. Abbaye, who studied with his uncle Rabbah bar Nahmani and with Yosef bar Ḥiyyaʾ of Pumbedita, drew on teachings both from Babylonia and, indirectly, from Pales... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (591 words) in 1 product