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...

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. Babies are such a nice...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

Women have contributed enormously to the formation of Australian society. Women's accounts of their experiences only started to emerge throughout the 1970's. In the past 150 years, the rights and roles of women have changed considerably. Wo...

Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell Into this world of ours? Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use. Oh, the price were high That those shoes would buy, Those little blue u...

Babylon 5 (1993–1998), created by J. Michael Straczynski , is a science fiction television epic about Babylon 5 , an Earth-governed space station built to promote harmony between interstellar civilizations. It is unusual in its focus on ...

[Reggae], as played by Bob Marley and the Wailers, is both a well-spring of homespun adages and a canny cultural tool with great facility for adaptation and innovation…. [The] band's evolution is so dramatic that one realizes the music ha...

“By the Rivers of Babylon” by Jorge de Sena Jorge de Sena (1919-78), poet, short fiction writer, novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, translator, biographer, and cultural historian, is one of Portugal’s preeminent me...

The Babylonia empire was far superior to the Assyrian empire in many ways some economically, technologically, socially, and agriculturally. The capital city of the Babylonian empire, Babylon was positioned on the Euphrates River. This ri...

Ann Moore,the mother of three grown children, is the force behind the Snugli , a cloth baby-carrier she devised after returning to the United States following a Peace Corps stint in Togo. After her first child was born in the early sixties...

Poetry and personal circumstance, each inextricably linked to the other in a complete and unbroken cycle, are indispensable elements in coming to know and understand the poetic voice and the artistic development of Jimmy Santiago Baca, an ...

Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives and, later, to the state senate, Polly Baca-Barragán (born 1943) was the first Hispanic woman elected to those offices. She remains active in politics working on behalf of Mexican Ame...

In the Bacchae, Euripides questions the authority of god versus man and man's allegiance to the gods. Pentheus is caught in a unique struggle of maintaining authority in his own kingdom and keeping allegiance to his favored god Apollo...

Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you want remembered....

Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beau...

Howard L. Bachrach's career achievments, including the National Medal of Science in 1983, relate to his pioneering research in the molecular biology of viruses. Bachrach was awarded the National Medal of Science for his work in molecular v...

Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium. This bacterium is most noteworthy because of its use to kill butterfly and moth caterpillars (Lepidoptera), the larvae of mosquitoes, and some species of black fly, that are a...

SOURCE: Montrose, David. “Waiting for the Future.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4321 (24 January 1986): 82. In the following mixed review, Montrose provides a stylistic overview of the stories in Tobias Wolff's Back in the World. The ...

The Back Room by Carmen Martín Gaite Carmen Martín Gaite was born in Salamanca, Spain, on December 8, 1925, “right in the middle of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship” (Martín Gaite, p. 129). As she des...

Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are:...