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B cell B lymphocytes, also known as B cells, are one of the five types of white blood cells, or leukocytes, that circulate throughout the blood. They and T lymphocytes are the most abundant types of white blood cells. B lymphocytes are a vital pa... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 10 pages (2,891 words) in 2 products

B. B. King   B. B. King (born 1925) is one of the most successful artists in the history of the blues. Today his ability as a blues guitarist is remains unparalleled. "B. B. King is widely recognized as the greatest living blues guitarist," Dimitri Ehr... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 3 Essays About 27 pages (8,134 words) in 5 products

B. Gratz Brown The American politician Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826-1885) served Missouri as senator and governor and gained national prominence in 1872 as the vice-presidential nominee on the Liberal Republican ticket. On May 28, 1826, B. Gratz Brown was ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,548 words) in 1 product

B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was an Indian social reformer and politician who devoted himself to improving the life of untouchables, particularly of his own caste, the Mahars. Bhimrao Ambedkar was born at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. He att... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 20 pages (5,947 words) in 1 product

B. S. Johnson B. S. Johnson's suicide in 1973 seems in many ways the fulfillment of his life as a novelist: there are few writers for whom life and art are so inextricably bound. This is not to suggest that one should look to Johnson's novels for the fa... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 24 pages (7,158 words) in 2 products

B. Traven No one knows as yet who B. Traven really was. Without revealing his identity, he became a best-selling author in the German-speaking countries of Europe with his first novel, Das Totenschiff (The Death Ship) in 1926. Although he always cla... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 4 Criticisms About 44 pages (13,147 words) in 6 products

B.A. Santamaria Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria (born 1915), a Roman Catholic publicist and organizer in Australia, founded the Catholic Social Movement. Bartholomew Santamaria was born in Brunswick, Victoria, on Aug. 14, 1915, the son of Italian immigra... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 2 pages (498 words) in 1 product

B.J. Vorster Balthazar Johannes Vorster (1915-1983) was a South African political leader who emerged as a major figure in Afrikaner nationalism. Noted as a right-wing figure, he was passionately hostile to liberalism and communism. Balthazar Vorster wa... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 4 pages (1,319 words) in 1 product

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Ba Jin   Pa Chin (Ba Jin) was the pen name of the Chinese author Li Fei-kan (born 1904). An idealist of humanitarian passion and revolutionary fervor, he was one of China's most prolific and beloved novelists of the 1930s and 1940s. Born into a lar... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 3 Criticisms About 36 pages (10,728 words) in 5 products

Ba Maw Ba Maw (1893-1977) was the first premier of independent Burma (now Myanmar) and the leader of the wartime government that ruled in cooperation with the occupying Japanese from 1942 to 1945. Ba Maw was born in Maubin on February 8, 1893. Hi... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,581 words) in 1 product

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Baal, Jan Van BAAL, JAN VAN. Jan van Baal (1909–1992), a Dutch anthropologist of religion, studied Indonesian culture, law, and languages at Leiden University and was influenced by J. P. B. de Josselin de Jong's structural ethnology. Van B... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,259 words) in 1 product

Bab: a Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart Study Pack: 1 eBook About 252 pages (75,529 words) in 1 product

Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert Study Pack: 1 Biography, 3 eBooks About 217 pages (65,092 words) in 4 products

Baba Tatsui (1850–1888), Japanese statesman and political thinker. Baba Tatsui was born in Tosa Province (now Kochi Prefecture) in the area of Kaneko Bridge, Nakanoshima Town, near Kochi Castle. He initially studied at Fukuzawa Yukichi's... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (237 words) in 1 product

Baba Yaga BABA YAGA, known in Russian folklore as a witch and an ogress, is the ancient goddess of death and regeneration of Slavic mythology, with roots in the pre-Indo-European matrilinear pantheon. In Slavic folk tales (mainly Russian), Baba Yaga... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,533 words) in 1 product

Babar the Elephant Perhaps the best known elephant in the world, Babar was born in France in 1931. He was first seen in a children's book titled Histoire de Babar, written and illustrated by painter and first-time author Jean de Brunhoff. It told the ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,549 words) in 1 product

Babbit (BookRags) by Sinclair Lewis George Babbitt needs strong personality-altering drugs. Lots of them. Once a successful businessman, George is quickly taken over by an onslaught of pressures and conflicts, culminating in Babbitt, a witty and ironic account of the Roarin... Study Pack: 4 Biographies, 1 Essay, 1 eBook About 447 pages (134,039 words) in 6 products

Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis   In the business-centered city of Zenith, George F. Babbitt is, "to the eye, the perfect office-going executive": he is a successful and wealthy realtor, has a nice suburban house, and owns everything that is modern and expensive. Yet, he i... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 4 Biographies, 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 131 pages (39,220 words) in 7 products

Natalie Babbitt (BookRags) "Daily life is really very dull," author Natalie Babbitt told Amy Meeker in a Publishers Weekly interview. "I don't care whether you're rich or poor--you do the same things over and over again, and you need something to speculate about, so... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,188 words) in 1 product

Natalie (Zane Moore) Babbitt The younger daughter of Ralph Zane and Genevieve Converse Moore, Natalie Zane Moore Babbitt was born on 28 July 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, and spent the first eighteen years of her life in various towns and communities in ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 15 pages (4,505 words) in 1 product

Babcock test The late 1800s and early 1900s saw many advances in the dairying industry. One such development was the butterfat test invented by American Stephen M. Babcock (1843-1931) in 1890 and marketed in 1891. Before Babcock invented the test, dair... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (544 words) in 1 product

Babe Ruth   George Herman Ruth, Jr. (1895-1948), American baseball player, was the sport's greatest celebrity and most enduring legend. George Herman Ruth was born on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, one of eight children of a saloonkeeper. Judged as i... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 2 Essays About 53 pages (15,879 words) in 5 products

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Babe Zaharias Called "the athlete phenomenon of our time, man or woman," Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (1913-1956) participated in almost every sport. She excelled as an Olympic athlete and as a golfer. Mildred Didrikson, known throughout her life a... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 13 pages (3,902 words) in 2 products

Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies About 74 pages (22,249 words) in 3 products

Babel-17 SOURCE: “The Languages of Science Fiction: Samuel Delany's Babel-17,” in Extrapolation, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 5-17. In the following essay, Malmgren examines the function of language in Babel-17, which he views as the novel'... Study Pack: 1 Criticism About 20 pages (6,085 words) in 1 product

Babesia (BookRags) My topic is Babesia and it is a diseases that animals get, mostly dogs, when a tick bites a animal and then it infects its red blood cells. This disease affects some humans also, but is mostly spread to racing greyhounds and pit bulls. Th... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 3 pages (742 words) in 1 product

Babette Deutsch Honey Out of the Rock is far too self-conscious in expression to contain much of the rich warm emotional essence its title would suggest. The predominating feature of the book is its coldness. And not in the sense that many people mis-apply... Study Pack: 8 Criticisms About 9 pages (2,562 words) in 8 products

Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies About 76 pages (22,719 words) in 3 products

Babi Yar SOURCE: A review of the Babi Yar Symphony, in American Record Guide, January 11, 1996, pp. 174-5. In the following review, Hansen highlights the musical significance of literary allusions to Babi Yar in an audio recording of Shostakovich's ... Study Pack: 3 Criticisms About 24 pages (7,071 words) in 3 products

Babirusa The babirusa (pig deer, Babyrousa babyrussa), a pig-like animal, is distantly related to the hippo and restricted to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Babirusa stand 65–80 centimeters high, are often nearly hairless, and range in c... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (759 words) in 1 product

Babrak Karmal A leading Afghan Marxist, Babrak Karmal (1929-1996) became Russian puppet ruler of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan after the Russian invasion in December 1979 until his resignation "because of ill health" on May 4, 1986. Babrak Karm... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,540 words) in 1 product

Babrius The Fables of Babrius, written in choliambic verse, constitutes the earliest extant collection of Aesopic fables in Greek and is the only extant Greek collection from antiquity whose author attempts to present his fables in a more sophisti... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (2,939 words) in 1 product

Marian Babson Marian Babson's contributions to the field of mystery and detective fiction lie in both her ten-year service as secretary of the Crime Writers Association from 1976 to 1986 and her steady output of mystery novels, better than a novel per y... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 15 pages (4,403 words) in 1 product

Babur   Babar the Conqueror (1483-1530) was a descendant of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, who founded the Mughal (Mogul) dynasty of India and, although a devout Muslim, bequeathed a legacy of toleration for non-Muslims that characterized the Empire ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 34 pages (10,067 words) in 3 products

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A Baby Bear (drawing conclusions) Study Pack: About 1 pages (300 words) in 0 products

Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Biography About 34 pages (10,136 words) in 2 products

Baby boomer "For many a family, now that prosperity seems to be here, there's a baby just around the corner." This is how the April 2, 1941 issue of Business Week described the upcoming demographic phenomenon that would come to be... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 25 pages (7,625 words) in 1 product

Baby bottle Bottles to feed infants have been in use for many centuries. The first consisted of urns with two openings: one for pouring the liquid into the bottle and the other to be put in the baby's mouth. Predictably, the baby bottle has changed ma... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,594 words) in 1 product

Baby Boy SOURCE: Wilmington, Michael. Review of Baby Boy, by John Singleton. Chicago Tribune (26 June 2001): K2649. In the following review, Wilmington offers a positive assessment of Baby Boy, commenting that the film will act like “a smack in th... Study Pack: 6 Criticisms About 19 pages (5,695 words) in 6 products

Baby Chatterbox Study Pack: 1 eBook About 17 pages (5,187 words) in 1 product

Baby colic Colic Intense abdominal discomfort typically affecting infants under three months of age and whose cause is unknown. In the first weeks and months after birth, an estimated 10% of all infants exhibit symptoms of intense abdominal pain, acc... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,716 words) in 1 product

Baby Face Nelson Baby Face Nelson (Lester J. Gillis) December 6, 1908 November 27, 1934 AKA: Alex Gillis, Lester Giles, Big George, Jimmie Mobster, Robber, and Murderer At a time when many outlaws were romanticized by the American public, Baby Face Nelson w... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,154 words) in 1 product

The Baby of Mâcon SOURCE: Macnab, Geoffrey. Review of The Baby of Mâcon, by Peter Greenaway. Sight and Sound 3, no. 9 (September 1993): 41. In the following negative review, Macnab argues that the acting and the technological innovations in The Baby of Mâc... Study Pack: 1 Criticism About 5 pages (1,494 words) in 1 product

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Sign language in infants and toddlers "Sign with your Baby" I. Joseph Garcia a. Who he is b. Education c. His contributions II. What it is a. How it was established b. What it does c. How it works III. The Advantages ... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 23 pages (6,737 words) in 1 product