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C++ C++ (pronounced see plus-plus) is a general-purpose, compiled, object-orientated programming language that has its roots in the C programming language. In early 1980 Bjarne Stroustrup of Bell Laboratories began developing C++. The first C... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 28 pages (8,488 words) in 1 product

C programming language C is a general-purpose, high-level, compiled programming language. Dennis Ritchie developed C in the early 1970s for use with the UNIX operating system running on the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11 computers at the BELL Labora... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,139 words) in 1 product

C. A. R. Hoare Professor Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, or Tony Hoare, has produced a large body of work relating to the definition and design of programming languages (Hoare's Logic), as well as several other innovations that allow computers to perfo... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 8 pages (2,261 words) in 1 product

C. D. Darlington Cyril Dean Darlington's research and writing centered on chromosomes, genes, and the process of meiosis. Darlington's work on chromosomes helped shape the understanding of how evolution is dependent upon the concepts of hereditary mechanis... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,090 words) in 2 products

C. D. Wright C. D. Wright has published seven collections of poetry, the first in 1976 and the most recent in 1992. Her poems have appeared in Field, Ironwood, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and TriQuarterly, among many other magazines and journals.... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,009 words) in 1 product

C. Delores Tucker American activist C. DeLores Tucker (born 1927) has risen to national prominence in African American civil rights circles through her tireless activism and political fundraising. The struggle to end racism and make her world a more equal, ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,558 words) in 1 product

C. Everett Koop   C. Everett Koop (born 1916), one of America's most outspoken surgeons general, served two terms in the 1980s. Koop's appointment angered liberals. However, the conservative Christian doctor later alienated social conservatives by refusing ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 17 pages (4,975 words) in 2 products

C. H. B. Kitchin A serious literary artist, C. H. B. Kitchin longed for but never received popular acclaim--perhaps because of his novels' biting wit or, as his friend L. P. Hartley suggested, because Kitchin's four detective novels diverted most readers' ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (1,971 words) in 1 product

C. H. Herford For thirty years C. H. Herford worked diligently and broadly in Continental as well as English literature, earning a reputation for his discernment and breadth of knowledge. His longtime collaborator on The Man and His Work, Ben Jonson (19... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 17 pages (5,074 words) in 1 product

C. J. Cherryh Since the publication of her first fantasy novel in 1976, C. J. Cherryh has drawn praise from critics and readers alike as both a consummate storyteller and a writer of what Thomas P. Dunn calls "speculative anthropology" in St. James Guid... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 15 pages (4,609 words) in 1 product

C. J. Dennis by C. J. Dennis C. J. Dennis was a prolific poet and journalist who made his name with The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke (1915) and The Moods of Ginger Mick (1916), vernacular verse narratives that celebrated two larrikins (young street rowdies) from inner... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Biography, 1 eBook About 71 pages (21,221 words) in 3 products

C. K. Williams Charles Kenneth Williams was born in Newark, New Jersey. He was educated at Bucknell University and at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took the B.A. in 1959. Since 1972 he has been a contributing editor for American Poetry Review.... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 30 Criticisms About 211 pages (63,417 words) in 31 products

C. L. Moore C.L. Moore's literary career neatly divides into two major phases. From 1933 to 1940, she wrote a series of novellas and short stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. Innovative in style and theme, this work established Moore's r... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 14 pages (4,306 words) in 1 product

C. L. R. James After the publication of the three volumes of his selected writings--The Future in the Present (1977), Spheres of Existence (1980), and At the Rendezvous of Victory (1984)--reviewers across the political spectrum were unanimous in their pr... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 18 pages (5,526 words) in 1 product

C. Lloyd Morgan The English comparative psychologist and social evolutionist Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936) was one of the first to consistently apply the experimental method in observing animal behavior. To interpret animal behavior he formulated his "la... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries About 9 pages (2,816 words) in 3 products

C. P. Snow   C. P. Snow's place in twentieth-century letters is unusual; no other major writer in any creative literary genre established himself also in science and in the high ranks of governmental and public service. And in an age in which most lead... Study Pack: 4 Biographies, 12 Criticisms About 147 pages (44,087 words) in 16 products

C. Rajagopalachari Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1879-1972) was a prominent Indian nationalist leader, first Indian governor general of his country, and founder of the Swatantra party. He also wrote a popular version of the "Mahabharata." Chakravarti Rajagopa... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 16 pages (4,852 words) in 2 products

C. S. Adler C. S. Adler may have gotten a late start in publishing books for young readers--she was in her late forties when The Magic of the Glits, her first novel, was released--but she has more than made up for lost time with some forty books to he... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 23 pages (6,852 words) in 2 products

C. S. Forester C. S. Forester is best known for his series of eleven historical novels about the early-nineteenth-century British naval officer Horatio Hornblower. A prolific writer, Forester had produced twenty-four books before he conceived the nautica... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 7 Criticisms About 119 pages (35,789 words) in 8 products

C. S. Lewis   C. S. Lewis has several reputations. He was an important and respected critic and literary scholar, specializing in medieval and Renaissance English literature. To the public he has been well known for fifty years as an expositor and defen... Study Pack: 8 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 18 Criticisms About 474 pages (142,221 words) in 29 products

C. Vann Woodward   Comer Vann Woodward (born 1908), American historian, is one of the leading interpreters of southern history and race relations. Comer Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas in 1908. He graduated from Emory University in 1930, earned ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 47 pages (14,125 words) in 2 products

C. W. Post A pioneer in the manufacture and mass marketing of breakfast cereals and other consumer products, Charles William Post (1854-1914) attempted to use his wealth to affect various aspects of early 20th-century American life. Charles William P... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 4 pages (1,287 words) in 1 product

C. Wright Mills American sociologist and political polemicist C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) argued that the academic elite has a moral duty to lead the way to a better society by actively indoctrinating the masses with values. On Aug. 28, 1916, C. Wright Mi... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary About 21 pages (6,268 words) in 3 products

C. D. Payne C. D. Payne is the creator of the cult favorite "Nick Twisp" novels for teens, Youth in Revolt and Revolting Youth. Payne's reckless but brilliant teen hero moves from one fictional crisis to another, but always triumphs over his numerous ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,095 words) in 1 product

C. F. du Fay 1698-1739 French Physicist Charles-François de Cisternay Du Fay is best known for his discovery of positive and negative electrical charges and some of their properties. He was one of the first to use an electroscope in his research, ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (743 words) in 1 product

C. H. D. Buys Ballot Christoph Hendrick Diederik Buys Ballot was one of the pioneers of weather forecasting. He made use of the newly invented telegraph to gather weather observations from stations many miles apart, then attempted to understand large scale wea... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 3 pages (760 words) in 1 product

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Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao An Indian professor of chemistry, C. N. R. Rao has been instrumental in the worldwide research into superconductivity. Superconductivity occurs when certain metals experience a total loss of electrical resistance, turning them into superco... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 6 pages (1,736 words) in 1 product

C4 carbon fixation In the 1960s, two Australian scientists, M.D. Hatch and C.R. Slack described a new pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis. The Hatch-Slack pathway describes a biochemical system in which carbon is first incorporated into the four-ca... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 7 pages (2,059 words) in 2 products

Cab Calloway Cab Calloway (1907-1994), blues and scat legend, entertained generations of people with his jazzy big band sounds. Even in his golden years, Calloway still traveled on the road and performed for his fans. Cab Calloway was a famous singer a... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,239 words) in 2 products

The Cab of the Sleeping Horse Study Pack: 1 eBook About 178 pages (53,410 words) in 1 product

Eladio Cabañero Eladio Cabañero is a prominent member of the "Generation of the 1950s," which created a turning point in the poetry written in post-civil-war Spain. Although his personal experience and background greatly differ from those of the ot... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 20 pages (6,080 words) in 1 product

Cabaret (film) When something is created it is a given that it will be picked apart, dismantled, will evolve into something even greater. It has become the norm in film-making to play by these rules of deformation. Movie makers have stretched the defini... Study Pack: 1 Essay, 6 Criticisms About 14 pages (4,283 words) in 7 products

Cabbage Patch Kids The Cabbage Patch Kids doll-craze was an unprecedented phenomenon among children and their parents that swept America during the 1980s, reflecting, perhaps, the cultural leanings of an era intent on expressing family values. By comparison ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (1,990 words) in 1 product

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920 film) SOURCE: "Caligari," in From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, Princeton University Press, 1947, pp. 61-76. A German philosopher as well as a social and arts critic, Kracauer emigrated to the United States when ... Study Pack: 3 Criticisms About 42 pages (12,674 words) in 3 products

Cable television   Considering the fact that in the late 1990s many experts view existing television cables as the technological groundwork for what may be the most important and far reaching media innovations since the printing press, the origins of cable t... Study Pack: 8 Summaries About 77 pages (23,097 words) in 8 products

Alice Mildred Cable Mildred Cable, Evangeline French, and Francesca French traveled across China for the China Inland Mission--a Bible society established in 1865 to convert the people of China to Christianity. From the time of Evangeline French's arrival in ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 16 pages (4,865 words) in 1 product

The Cabman's Story by Arthur Conan Doyle Study Pack: 7 Biographies, 1 eBook About 200 pages (59,880 words) in 8 products

Richard Clarke Cabot Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939), an American physician, pioneered clinical hematology, was an innovator in teaching methods, and introduced the concept of the medical social worker. Richard Cabot was born in Brookline, Mass., on May 21, 1... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 1 pages (430 words) in 1 product

Manuel del Cabral Manuel del Cabral is known not only in Latin America but also throughout the world as a poet of exceptional quality who addresses the concerns of his compatriots and the social inequities of the world. As Cabral states at the beginning of ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,277 words) in 1 product

Cacao As currency, beverage, and divine plant, cacao (Theobroma cacao, family Sterculiaceae) has played an important role in ancient Central American cultures. To the Mayans, the plant was a gift from their gods—implied in the name Theobr... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,462 words) in 1 product

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien By turns lurid and lyrical, "Going After Cacciato" combines a surface of realistic war reportage … with a deeper level—perhaps possible only in fiction—of the surrealistic effect war has on the daydreams and nightmares of the combatan... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 8 Criticisms About 234 pages (70,242 words) in 9 products

Cache Cache memory refers to a fast storage buffer in the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer, allowing the computer to store data temporarily, making information retrieval faster and more efficient. By storing often-used data in a speci... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 9 pages (2,768 words) in 1 product

Cactus The members of family Cactaceae are a group of dicotyledonous flowering plants that are primarily native to various dry or seasonally dry habitats in North and South America. Due to the presence of specialized fleshy stems, they are classi... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,272 words) in 1 product

Cactus: A Desert Plant/El cacto: una planta del desierto Study Pack: About 9 pages (2,700 words) in 0 products

Cactus Culture for Amateurs by William Watson (poet) Study Pack: 1 eBook About 190 pages (57,008 words) in 1 product

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Study Pack: 1 Study Guide About 155 pages (46,382 words) in 1 product

CAD/CAM In the area of computer software, the trend has been to make difficult and tedious manual tasks easier to perform. One such area where this is most prevalent is computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing. More commonly referred... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (883 words) in 1 product