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E (mathematical constant) The number e, like the number pi, is a useful mathematical constant that is the basis of the system of natural logarithms. Its value correct to nine places is 2.718281828... The number e is used in complex equations to describe a process o... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 13 pages (3,757 words) in 2 products

E Pluribus Unicorn and Sturgeon Is Alive and Well by Theodore Sturgeon Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies About 52 pages (15,472 words) in 3 products

E pluribus unum E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One The founding fathers took many steps into making our home, the United States of America, a place of opportunity. It may seem that it took many years before America became a united nation under one co... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 4 pages (1,157 words) in 1 product

Edgar Allan Poe   With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may b... Study Pack: 8 Biographies, 1 Summary, 28 Essays, 56 Criticisms About 2,659 pages (797,600 words) in 93 products

E. Annie Proulx   E. Annie Proulx (born 1935) won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News. While she was certainly not an overnight sensation, having written stories from the age... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Essay, 14 Criticisms About 87 pages (25,959 words) in 16 products

E. B. White   Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of... Study Pack: 4 Biographies, 2 Summaries, 1 Essay, 3 Criticisms About 162 pages (48,501 words) in 10 products

E. D. E. N. Southworth Emma Dorothea Eliza Nevitte Southworth, who published many of her books under the name Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, was one of the most popular fiction writers in the United States during the mid nineteenth century. Beginning in 1846, she ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,649 words) in 1 product

E. D. Hirsch Jr.   More than a quarter century of publications testify to a diversity of concerns on the part of E. D. Hirsch, Jr. These manifold concerns include theory of interpretation, nature and development of hermeneutics, Romantic historical scholarsh... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 25 pages (7,452 words) in 2 products

E. Donnall Thomas E. Donnall Thomas has pioneered techniques for transplanting bone marrow, an operation that has been utilized to treat patients with cancers of the blood, such as leukemia. For proving that such transplants could save the lives of dying pa... Study Pack: 4 Biographies About 15 pages (4,449 words) in 4 products

E. E. Cummings   E. E. Cummings's experimentation with form and language places him among the most innovative of twentieth-century poets. His style eludes specific association with any one modern line. He was applauded by such various poets as Ezra Pound, ... Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 29 Criticisms About 423 pages (126,982 words) in 34 products

E. E. Evans-Pritchard The English social anthropologist Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973) did pioneer research in the social structure, history, and religion of African and Arab peoples. Edward Evans-Pritchard was one of the foremost anthropologists o... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary About 10 pages (3,081 words) in 3 products

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax The English statesman Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959), was viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931. He later served as foreign secretary and as ambassador to the United States during World War II. Edward Frederick... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 15 pages (4,575 words) in 1 product

E. F. Schumacher 1911-1977 British Economist EF. Schumacher was an economist who argued that Earth could not afford the cultural and environmental costs accompanying large-scale capitalism. His book Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered was n... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 15 pages (4,510 words) in 2 products

E. Fay Jones American architect Fay Jones (born 1921) carried the principles of his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright into his own work, primarily private residences and small religious structures. His most famous work is the Thorncrown Chapel (1980) at Eureka... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,044 words) in 1 product

E. Franklin Frazier Edward Franklin Frazier (1894-1962), one of America's leading sociologists, specialized in studies of black people in North and South America and in Africa. On Sept. 24, 1894, E. Franklin Frazier was born in Baltimore, Md. He took his bach... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 8 pages (2,265 words) in 2 products

E. G. Squier   E. G. Squier was a journalist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose extensive travels in Latin America resulted in important and definitive contributions to the study of archaeology in Central America and Peru. An authority on Central America... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,270 words) in 2 products

E. H. Harriman Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909), executive of the Union Pacific Railroad, was one of the dominant American figures in that industry in the late 19th century. Born on Feb. 20, 1848, in Hempstead, N.Y., E. H. Harriman was raised in a relat... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,579 words) in 1 product

E. H. Moore 1862-1932 American mathematician who, in addition to his important work in algebra and group theory, helped to found an American school of mathematics on equal terms with the superior scholarship of foreign universities. Under Moore'... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 3 pages (920 words) in 2 products

E. H. Shepard Ernest H. Shepard, a prolific, thoroughly professional illustrator of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, has been referred to as the last of the great Victorian black-and-white men. Some literary and art critics lauded his bla... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 8 pages (2,347 words) in 1 product

E. Howard Hunt E. Howard Hunt was a major figure in the Watergate scandal that destroyed the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. Hunt, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer as well as a prolific fiction writer, coordinated the White House "Plumbers" un... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 16 pages (4,672 words) in 1 product

E. J. Pratt Few poets can be said to occupy a more secure position in the literary history of their countries than that held by E. J. Pratt. Often hailed in his own lifetime as Canada's unofficial poet laureate, Pratt has become, since his death in 19... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 8 Criticisms About 55 pages (16,616 words) in 9 products

E. L. Doctorow   One of the most celebrated and controversial novelists of the past two decades, E. L. Doctorow has an uncanny ability to reach both the general audience (The Book of Daniel, Welcome to Hard Times, and Ragtime have been made into movies) an... Study Pack: 6 Biographies, 1 Summary, 37 Criticisms About 253 pages (75,762 words) in 44 products

E. L. Konigsburg An impressive figure in children's literature, E. L. Konigsburg has the distinction of being the first and possibly only author to have had two books on the Newbery Honor list at the same time. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Fran... Study Pack: 3 Biographies About 65 pages (19,470 words) in 3 products

E. M. Delafield SOURCE: "E. M. Delafield," in Some Contemporary Novelists (Women), Leonard Parsons, 1920, pp. 177-84. In the following essay, Johnson discusses egoism and the sense of self portrayed in Delafield's female protagonists. There is a certain co... Study Pack: 8 Criticisms About 57 pages (16,943 words) in 8 products

E. M. Forster   During the Edwardian years and into the 1920s, E. M. Forster consolidated his reputation as a novelist of distinction and as a persuasive man of letters. He attained the greatest recognition and authority after World War II when, except fo... Study Pack: 9 Biographies, 1 Summary, 1 Essay, 41 Criticisms About 544 pages (163,237 words) in 52 products

E. Nesbit Best known as the author of such children's novels as The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, the English writer E. Nesbit (1858-1924) also authored fiction, drama, and poetry for adults. In addition she was active in p... Study Pack: 4 Biographies About 73 pages (22,032 words) in 4 products

E. O. Wilson   The American biologist Edward O. Wilson (born 1929) is a leading authority on ants and social insects and an influential theorist of the biological basis of social behavior. He promotes the controversial discipline of sociobiology, which h... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 4 Summaries About 40 pages (12,049 words) in 7 products

E. P. Taylor Edward Plunket Taylor (1901-1989) was a Canadian-born financier and thoroughbred horse breeder who orchestrated the powerful Argus Corporation empire. Some may say that Edward Plunket Taylor's most notable accomplishment was the breeding o... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,385 words) in 1 product

E. P. Thompson Many scholars regard E. P. Thompson, along with the Welsh Marxist and founder of the British Cultural Studies group Raymond Williams, as pioneers in the field of cultural studies. A Marxist historian and lifelong political activist, Thomps... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 18 pages (5,389 words) in 1 product

E. Phillips Oppenheim While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The au... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (2,984 words) in 1 product

E. V. Lucas E. V. Lucas was taught to swim by George Bernard Shaw, heard James Barrie reading Peter Pan while it was still in manuscript, and knew virtually everyone in the London literary and publishing worlds in the first third of the twentieth cent... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 10 Criticisms About 124 pages (37,099 words) in 13 products

E. W. Howe   E. W. Howe's importance in the development of American realism rests on his first and best book, The Story of a Country Town (1883). Howe's autobiographical novel, depicting midwestern drabness and neurotic failure, anticipates the early w... Study Pack: 3 Biographies About 21 pages (6,410 words) in 3 products

E. W. Scripps The confidence of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1854-1926) in free enterprise and democracy enabled him to create the first newspaper chain in the United States and to contribute significantly to the new journalism of his era. Born in Rushville, ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 4 pages (1,154 words) in 1 product

E.B. Ford American biologist and geneticist who helped confirm some important aspects of population genetics. Early researchers in population genetics, Godfrey Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg had developed relationships describing the distribution of gen... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (61 words) in 1 product

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by Steven Spielberg Released in 1981, Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial touched the emotions and the collective imagination of moviegoers of all ages, breaking all previous box-office records to become the most profitable film of its time u... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies, 1 Summary, 3 Criticisms About 144 pages (43,214 words) in 7 products

E.T.A. Hoffmann   An ironist and humorist par excellence, the prolific storyteller E. T. A. Hoffmann occupies a prominent place in the canon of nineteenth-century European literature. He is regarded today as the influential, eccentric genius of German Roman... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 Summary About 123 pages (36,933 words) in 4 products

E.W. Scripps Company E. W. Scripps, the Illinois farm boy who grew up to build the first major newspaper chain in the United States and to found what later became United Press International, was a paradox. He based his success on his support for the working cl... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 23 pages (6,848 words) in 1 product

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Eadweard Muybridge   One of the most innovative pioneers of photography, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is perhaps best known as the man who proved that a horse has all four hooves off the ground at the peak of a gallop. He is also regarded as the inventor of ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 14 pages (4,299 words) in 2 products

The Eagle Has Landed Born Harry Patterson on July 27, 1929, Jack Higgins has become a world renowned author. Higgins' childhood in Belfast, Ireland was filled with political strife. His family had a strong political background, and he frequently experienced the... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 6 pages (1,707 words) in 1 product

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth combines the presentation of the historic era of the Roman occupation of Britain with an acute sense of place. A feeling of belonging to a certain landscape becomes a vital part of the plot structu... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 7 Criticisms About 205 pages (61,366 words) in 8 products

Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) When you think of life changing experiences, you can think of having a near death incident, becoming a parent, becoming a believer or something in those areas. Well in my short life, I haven't really had a life changing experience. But th... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 19 pages (5,638 words) in 1 product

The Eagle by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 4 Biographies About 118 pages (35,355 words) in 5 products

The Eagle's Shadow by James Branch Cabell Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 eBook About 183 pages (54,809 words) in 4 products

Wilberforce Eames Wilberforce Eames is regarded today as the greatest of Americanists and one of the most remarkable of bibliographers. Although he lacked a formal education and never traveled outside of North America, Eames attained a facility with a varie... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,064 words) in 1 product

Ear The ear is the means by which the sounds of the world reach us. The external ear that is evident on humans and other creatures is only a part of the ear. The middle ear and the inner ear have different structures and contributions to the o... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 23 pages (7,015 words) in 3 products

The Ear in the Wall by Arthur B. Reeve Study Pack: 1 eBook About 235 pages (70,627 words) in 1 product

Eardrum Most commonly called the eardrum, the tympanic membrane is an oval-shaped, thin, fibrous membrane that covers the ear canal separating the outer ear (external acoustic meatus) from the middle ear (tympanum). The tympanic membrane is bilami... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (960 words) in 1 product

Earl Browder   Earl Russell Browder (1891-1973) was the head of the Communist party of the United States during its most influential and prosperous period, 1930-1945. He was the best-known native-born Communist in American history. Earl Browder was born ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 35 pages (10,408 words) in 2 products

Earl D. Shaw 1937- American physicist who has made important contributions to laser technology. Shaw helped develop the free electron laser, infrared lasers, and tunable lasers. Tunable lasers are important because, unlike conventional lasers, the wave... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (68 words) in 1 product