| ‹‹ Prev 50 | 101-150 | Next 50 ›› |
| All A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | H |
|
The study of the heavens produced the earliest surviving scientific instruments, and the need for accurate astronomical sightings and calculations provided the stimulus for technological and theoretical innovation that would allow mechani...
Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 24 Criticisms
About 18,080 pages (5,424,059 words) in 28 products |
|
(1996 est. pop. 7.1 million). Hainan, an island province in the South China Sea off the coast of China's Guangdong Province, covers an area of 34,000 square kilometers. Before 1988, when the island obtained provincial status, it was...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 15 pages (4,485 words) in 1 product |
|
Although China and the United States have been making moves toward diplomacy, some real and unresolved friction continues to exist between the two states. China has emerged from a century and a half of devastation at the hands of the indu...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 24 pages (7,129 words) in 1 product |
|
While many people may not be familiar with who Helen Haines was, she made numerous contributions during her lifetime to the American Library Association, the library press, library education, and the American intellectual freedom movement....
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 4 pages (1,285 words) in 1 product |
|
John Meade Haines was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of naval officer John Meade Haines and Helen M. Donaldson Haines. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946, he was educated in Washington, D.C., at St. Johns, at the National...
Study Pack: 2 Biographies
About 25 pages (7,510 words) in 2 products |
|
(2002 pop. 572,000). Located 103 kilometers (64 miles) east of Hanoi on the coast of northern Vietnam, Haiphong, Vietnam's third-largest city (behind Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi), is a major seaport and the main hub of northern Vietn...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 6 pages (1,761 words) in 1 product |
|
HAIR. Words are related to the things they denote only by the conventions of language, but symbols, unlike words, are inherently appropriate to what they signify. Thus, since most animals are much hairier than human beings, some cultures m...
Study Pack: 2 Summaries
About 30 pages (8,924 words) in 2 products |
|
Hair care is the process of improving the appearance of hair by cleansing, condition, coloring, or styling. Modern hair care is blend of science and marketing with hundreds of companies offering thousands of products to solve every possibl...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 38 pages (11,440 words) in 1 product |
|
SOURCE: Blake, Richard A. “Selective Memory.” America 140, no. 13 (7 April 1979): 286. In the following excerpt, Blake commends Hair's atmosphere of “great good fun,” but cautions against the film's tendency to sanitize historical e...
Study Pack: 3 Criticisms
About 14 pages (4,061 words) in 3 products |
|
Hair, a "tribal-rock musical" (Barnes), captures the attitudes and idealisms of the Hippie movement of the 1960's. Written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music and lyrics by Galt McDermot, Hair illustrates Hippies' repudiation of conv...
Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Essay, 23 Criticisms
About 57 pages (17,085 words) in 25 products |
|
Hair removers are products designed to remove unwanted hair from areas on the body. They can work by both chemical and physical means. Formulations that chemically breakdown hair are called depilatories, and contain thioglycolate salts or ...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 12 pages (3,572 words) in 1 product |
|
About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products |
|
Human beings have styled and adorned their hair since the beginning of recorded history. This styling has different and often contradictory purposes. As an intrinsic, yet malleable part of the body, the hair and its styling can serve as an...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 9 pages (2,598 words) in 1 product |
|
Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 4 Biographies
About 304 pages (91,110 words) in 5 products |
|
About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products |
|
Haiti was once the first black independent republic in the world and the richest island in the Caribbean. Today Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest countries in the world. What could have happened...
Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 1 Essay
About 130 pages (39,040 words) in 6 products |
|
"We Arabs are the worst…." That is the theme of [The Haj, a] crude propaganda-novel … which traces the Palestinian-refugee problem up through 1956—blaming 100 percent of it on the British and the Arabs (Arab greed, decadence, laziness...
Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 4 Criticisms
About 219 pages (65,614 words) in 5 products |
|
The second president after Indonesia's independence, Suharto (born 1921) was a strong anti-Communist who drew Indonesia closer to the West and presided during a period of economic improvement in the country. Notwithstanding, his tenure was...
Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary
About 6 pages (1,834 words) in 2 products |
|
(d. 1784), Bugis dictator of Riau-Johor. The Bugis were seafarers from the southwest arm of Sulawesi who were known as warriors and enterprising traders throughout the Malay Archipelago. Raja Haji reigned briefly from 1777 to 1784, a perio...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 1 pages (298 words) in 1 product |
|
Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon is considered one of the best centers playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA). While most of his teammates and rivals got involved with the sport in grade school, Olajuwan didn't play the game until...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 34 pages (10,148 words) in 1 product |
|
Don L. Lee was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of Jimmy and Maxine Graves Lee. He attended Dunbar Vocational High School in Chicago, Chicago City College (A.A., 1966), Roosevelt University in Chicago (1966-1967), and the University ...
Study Pack: 2 Biographies
About 29 pages (8,539 words) in 2 products |
|
The Hakka are a Chinese ethnolinguistic minority group. The word "Hakka" means "guest people" or "newcomers" in Yue (Cantonese) and reflects their migration from central to southern China from abou...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 26 pages (7,658 words) in 1 product |
|
Introduction to Hakka
The Hakkas are a unique ethnic group of "Han" Chinese. They are thought to be the earliest "Han" settlers in China. One theory states that many of the early Hakkas were affiliated with the "royal bloods." After 1...
Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Essay
About 18 pages (5,252 words) in 2 products |
|
HAKUIN (1686–1769), more fully Hakuin Ekaku, was a mid-Tokugawa period (1603–1868) reviver of Rinzai Zen. Hakuin was born to a commoner family in Hara, present-day Shizuoka prefecture. Entering Buddhism at an early age, he st...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 12 pages (3,654 words) in 1 product |
|
Hal Clement is the pen name of Harry Clement Stubbs, one of the most exactingly scientific of science-fiction writers. Most of his novels and stories work out in minute detail the physical conditions for life on other worlds, from the astr...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 10 pages (2,926 words) in 1 product |
|
Hal Foster was one of the pioneers of comic strip illustration. "Conspicuously talented and greatly influential, Foster drew two of the best-looking adventure strips in comics, 'Tarzan' and 'Prince Valiant,'" according to a contributor for...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 7 pages (2,123 words) in 1 product |
|
On April 6, 1959, a thirty-four-year-old actor named Hal Holbrook literally became the seventy-two-year-old Mark Twain and made theatrical history as the creator of a new genre. From his hair to his shoes, from his voice to his movements, ...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 5 pages (1,559 words) in 1 product |
|
A director and producer whose long list of credits includes the musical blockbusters West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Evita, and The Phantom of the Opera, as well as groundbreaking works with lyricist/composer Stephen Sondhei...
Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary
About 27 pages (8,068 words) in 3 products |
|
Jewish law (halakhah) was the major integrative factor in Jewish life from early geonic times (eighth century) until the onset of the modern era. With Jewry's ever-increasing geographic dispersion and political incapacity, Jewish id...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 70 pages (20,996 words) in 1 product |
|
Frantisek Halas is one of the most important representatives of Czech lyric poetry of the twentieth century. He was a poet, a translator, an essayist concentrating on literature and art, and a journalist writing on cultural matters. His na...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 10 pages (2,863 words) in 1 product |
|
To some, Max Halbe ranks second to Gerhart Hauptmann among the dramatists of the German naturalist movement; to others, he is a minor figure whose significance lies in his evocation of the landscape and traditions of West Prussia. That dua...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 10 pages (2,948 words) in 1 product |
|
WINTER SOLSTICE SONGS. In Europe the celebration of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, is a heritage that goes back to prehistoric times. The classical Greek and Latin authors, as well as the fathers of the church, attest ...
Study Pack: 1 Summary
About 22 pages (6,611 words) in 1 product |
|
Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 eBook
About 266 pages (79,790 words) in 3 products |
|
Haldan Keffer Hartline was born on December 22, 1903, in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, to Daniel Schollenberger Hartline and Harriet Franklin Hartline. He attended college at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, graduating with a B.S. in...
Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 Summary
About 12 pages (3,603 words) in 4 products |
|
Clara Hale (1905-1992) spent 52 years bringing hope and assistance to the less fortunate. Her greatest endeavor was the founding of Hale House, a home for drug-addicted and AIDS-infected children. Clara Hale was a humble woman and a great ...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 7 pages (2,198 words) in 1 product |
|
Janet Campbell Hale began her literary career with two poetry awards -- the Vincent Price Poetry Competition in 1963 and the New York Poetry Day Award in 1964 -- but her first major work, the novel The Owl's Song, was not published until 1...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 6 pages (1,732 words) in 1 product |
|
Nancy Hale is most often recognized as a keen observer of people who is at her best when dealing with fundamental human qualities. Hale, who grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts, worked in New York City, and lived in Charlottesville, Virginia,...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 9 pages (2,566 words) in 1 product |
|
Susan Hale was well known in her time not only as a writer but also as a painter and amateur actress with a flair for comedy. Her travel books for children and adults (most co-authored with her brother Edward Everett Hale), newspaper lette...
Study Pack: 1 Biography
About 16 pages (4,651 words) in 1 product |
|
Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 eBook
About 302 pages (90,586 words) in 2 products |
|
Study Pack: 1 eBook
About 184 pages (55,318 words) in 1 product |
|
Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies
About 51 pages (15,287 words) in 3 products |
|
Study Pack: 1 eBook
About 216 pages (64,837 words) in 1 product |
|
SOURCE: Wood, James. “Saving Vidia.” New Statesman (1 October 2001): 79-80. In the following review, Wood applauds Half a Life,finding it intelligent and complex. It is a delight, after the spilt “fury” of Salman Rushdie's latest as...
Study Pack: 7 Criticisms
About 40 pages (11,885 words) in 7 products |
|
Study Pack: 1 eBook
About 256 pages (76,901 words) in 1 product |
|
About 1 pages (300 words) in 0 products |
|
Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Biography
About 16 pages (4,716 words) in 2 products |
|
About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products |
|
Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 1 eBook
About 252 pages (75,730 words) in 6 products |
|
Study Pack: 1 eBook
About 184 pages (55,318 words) in 1 product |
|
Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 1 eBook
About 118 pages (35,420 words) in 6 products |
‹‹ Prev 50 |
101-150 | Next 50 ››
