1-50  |  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

N

Nā Ro Pa NĀ RO PA (1016–1100), also known as Nāḍapāda and Nāroṭapa; one of the eighty-four Indian Vajrayāna mahā-siddhas ("completely perfected ones"). Nā ro pa was... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,251 words) in 1 product

N. Scott Momaday   "Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; "Figments of Sancho Panza's Imagination," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (31 December 1972): 2; "Finding a Need for Nature," Viva: North... Study Pack: 6 Biographies, 1 Summary, 24 Criticisms About 336 pages (100,908 words) in 31 products

N.C. Wyeth   For more than a quarter century N. C. Wyeth was the country's most prestigious illustrator of books and magazines. His pictures for the classic tales of romance and adventure are now classic illustrations, familiar to generations of reader... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 16 pages (4,725 words) in 2 products

N. F. Simpson About the highest tribute I can pay N. F. Simpson's A Resounding Tinkle … is to say that it does not belong in the English theatrical tradition at all. It derives from the best Benchley lectures, the wildest Thurber cartoons, and the crea... Study Pack: 10 Criticisms About 36 pages (10,850 words) in 10 products

An Na "Uhmma's hands are as old as sand. They have always been old, even when we were young. In the mornings, they would scratch across our sleeping faces as she smoothed our foreheads, our cheeks, and told us quietly, Wake up. Time for school."... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 6 pages (1,773 words) in 1 product

Naadam The Naadam Festival The Naadam festival is Mongolia's only big event, occurring every year, usually between the 11th and 13th of July. It is a national festival, with celebrations in almost every major town. The most impressive celebratio... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 3 pages (970 words) in 1 product

Nabataeans NABATEAN RELIGION. The scholarly consensus is that the Nabateans, whose kingdom flourished from about 400 BCE to 106 CE and whose capital was Petra in Jordan, were in part the descendants of the earlier inhabitants of southern Jordan, thou... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 17 pages (5,193 words) in 1 product

Nabiev, Rakhmon (1930–1993), Tajik politician. Rakhmon Nabiev led the Tajikistan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1982 to 1985 as the First Secretary of the Communist Party, and in 1991 he became the first president of independent Tajikistan. Born in... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (255 words) in 1 product

Nabih Berri Nabih Berri (born 1939) became the leader of the Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon in 1980. He helped the Shi'ites achieve more prominent role in Lebanese politics. Like many of his countrymen from south Lebanon, Nabih Berri's father was a mercha... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,160 words) in 1 product

Franz Nabl Franz Nabl wrote some of his major works at a time when Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Hermann Bahr dominated the Austrian literary scene. In contrast with the impressionism of these contemporaries, he is rooted in the tradi... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,688 words) in 1 product

The Nabob by Alphonse Daudet Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 eBook About 453 pages (135,790 words) in 3 products

Nabu NABU was a god, possibly of West Semitic origin, who became a major divine figure in Babylonia and Assyria of the first millennium BCE. He is first mentioned in official Babylonian documents of the time of Hammurabi (c. 1760 BCE) and may h... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (797 words) in 1 product

Naburimannu fl. c. 490 B.C. Babylonian astronomer credited with devising what came to be known as System A, a set of tables accounting for the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets at any particular time. As a result of inaccuracies in this system, ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (683 words) in 1 product

Nachman Krochmal Nachman Kohen Krochmal (1785-1840) was the first Jewish historian to treat Jewish history as an integral part of all human history. When Nachman Krochmal was born at Brody, Galicia, Poland, on Feb. 17, 1785, the Age of Enlightenment was re... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,291 words) in 2 products

Nachman of Breslov NAḤMAN OF BRATSLAV (1772–1810), Hasidic master and founder of the Bratslav sect, born in Medzhibozh, Ukraine. A great-grandson of Yisraʾel ben Eliʿezer (1700–1760), the BeSHT, the first central figure of ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 32 pages (9,457 words) in 1 product

Nada (BookRags) Nada by Carmen Laforet Born in Barcelona in 1921, Carmen Laforet spent her childhood and adolescence in the Canary Islands (Las Palmas). After the death of her mother in 1934 and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), she moved back to Barcelona ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 16 pages (4,755 words) in 1 product

Nikolai Ivanovich Nadezhdin With the appearance of his second article "O proiskhozhdenii, sushchestvovanii i padenii ital'ianskikh torgovykh poselenii v Tavride" (On the Origin, Existence and the Decline of Italian Trade Settlements on the Northern Black Sea Coast, 1... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,583 words) in 1 product

Nadia Boulanger One of the major influences on modern classical music was the strong-willed French music teacher, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979). She bagan her career as a composer, but gave it up at the age of 33 to devote her time to teaching. Her students... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,558 words) in 1 product

Nadia Comaneci Nadia Comaneci (born 1961) is one of the most-celebrated gymnasts in the history of the sport. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she was the first person in Olympic history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics. In all, ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,458 words) in 1 product

Nadine Gordimer   Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of liberal South African whites opposed to apart... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 67 Criticisms About 683 pages (204,952 words) in 70 products

Nadir Shah Nadir Shah (1687-1747) ruled Persia for eleven years. He rose from abject poverty to become one of the most powerful monarchs of his time. This spectacular success was due, in great part, to his ability to manipulate people, applying the r... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,145 words) in 1 product

Nadja (novel) by André Breton Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 3 Biographies About 204 pages (61,105 words) in 4 products

Nae Ionescu Ionescu, Nae(1890–1940) Nae Ionescu, the Romanian logician, metaphysician, and religious philosopher, studied at the University of Bucharest and received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1919 with the thesis Die Logist... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (980 words) in 1 product

Naevius A Campanian by birth, and therefore probably not a Roman with the full rights of a citizen, Gnaeus Naevius nevertheless stands as one of the most interesting, talented, and allusive figures in the early history of Roman literature. He was ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,132 words) in 1 product

Nag Hammâdi NAG HAMMADI. Unearthed in 1945 by a group of Egyptians digging for fertilizer, the so-called Nag Hammadi codices were one of the most important manuscript discoveries of the twentieth century for the study of religion in the late ancient M... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 13 pages (3,932 words) in 1 product

Naga The Nagas (with an estimated population of 3.5 million in 2000) are a group of tribes inhabiting Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland states in northeast India and neighboring areas of Myanmar (Burma). The 1971 census conducted ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (829 words) in 1 product

Nagai Kafu Nagai Kafu wrote many poetic essays as well as stories that, although infused with realism, retain their lyricism. He battled the coarseness of the world around him through the way he chose to live, continually at odds with the modernizati... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 19 pages (5,776 words) in 1 product

Nagaland (2001 est. pop. 2 million). Since 1963 a state in India's northeastern corner bordering Myanmar (Burma), Nagaland has an area of 15,579 square kilometers and is inhabited by sixteen major and twenty minor ethnic groups, all called N... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 10 pages (2,958 words) in 1 product

Nagano, Nagano (2002 est. pop. 2.2 million). Nagano Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 13,585 square kilometers. Its primary geographical features are the Hida, Kiso, Akaishi, and... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,739 words) in 1 product

Nagarjuna   NĀGĀRJUNA, best known as the first Mahāyāna philosopher in India, is a highly complex figure whose philosophical works, iconic image, and esoteric meditations are studied, honored, and practiced in many Mah ... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 27 pages (8,099 words) in 3 products

Nagasaki (2001 est. pop. 430,000). Nagasaki is a seaport town on the west coast of Kyushu, Japan. Originally a tiny fishing village, Nagasaki first gained prominence with the establishment of its port by the Portuguese in 1571. It served as an acti... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 2 pages (493 words) in 2 products

Nagauta Nagauta (long poems or songs) is the dominant musical form for the Kabuki theatre and depicts the various poetic descriptions of the dance and scenes. The early dances of Kabuki were accompanied by kouta (short songs). Nagauta developed du... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (565 words) in 1 product

Iurii Markovich Nagibin Iurii Nagibin was a prolific fiction writer whose stories and novellas touch on such themes as childhood, war, love, history, music, Moscow life, and nature. He is also known for his scripts for many successful movies, including the Japane... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 13 pages (3,903 words) in 1 product

Nagisa Oshima If we accept T. W. Adorno's assertion that the only choice open to a politically committed artist at this stage in history is to create a negative art, then Nagisa Oshima's The Ceremony must be considered a profoundly revolutionary work. Us... Study Pack: 11 Criticisms About 23 pages (6,844 words) in 11 products

Nagorno-Karabakh Nagorno-Karabakh, which is primarily Armenian, was a province of Azerbaijan for much of the time it was part of the USSR. Nagorno-Karabakh is fighting for its independence from Azerbaijan, with support from Armenia. • The people of ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 38 pages (11,459 words) in 1 product

Evdokiia Apollonovna Nagrodskaia Though one of the less heralded from the Silver Age canon of authors, Evdokiia Nagrodskaia in fact merits special acclaim. Through her novels, short stories, and screenplays, she brought complex philosophies and aesthetics to a middlebrow ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (2,920 words) in 1 product

Naguib Mahfouz   Najib Mahfuz (born 1912) was Egypt's foremost novelist and the first Arab to win the Nobel Prize in literature. He had wide influence in the Arab world and was the author from that area best known to the West in the latter half of the 20th... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Essay, 35 Criticisms About 570 pages (171,008 words) in 38 products

Nicholas Horthy de Nagyb�nya The Hungarian admiral and statesman Nicholas Horthy de Nagybánya (1868-1957) was regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944. He led Hungary during a troubled period which began with a Communist revolution and ended with German and then Rus... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 3 pages (884 words) in 1 product

Nahdatul Ulama Established in 1926 in Surabaya, Indonesia, by K. H. Muhammad Hasyim Asy'ari (1871–1947), the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is one of the largest socioreligious organizations in the country. It aims at promoting solidarity between tra... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (753 words) in 1 product

Nahmanides   The Spanish-born Jewish scholar Nahmanides (1194-1270), also called Moses ben Nahman, was the first outstanding rabbi to declare that resettlement in the land of Israel was a biblical precept binding upon all Jews. Nahmanides was born in G... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 20 pages (5,866 words) in 2 products

Nahuatl language NAHUATL RELIGION. The speakers of Nahuatl dialects compose the largest group of indigenous people in Mexico. Numbering about 800,000, they live primarily in the Federal District and the states of México, Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala, G... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,157 words) in 1 product

Nahum Tate It is one of the minor ironies of literary history that Nahum Tate's small claim to fame is for having the audacity to attempt to "improve" Shakespeare's plays, most egregiously King Lear. His contemporaries found him anything but audaciou... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 14 Criticisms About 331 pages (99,199 words) in 15 products

NAICS The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) groups establishments into industries according to their primary economic activities. It facilitates the collection, calculation, presentation, and analysis of statistical data by i... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 10 pages (3,032 words) in 2 products

Beverley Naidoo South African expatriate Beverley Naidoo's books about the evils of the apartheid system and of homelessness in "the new South Africa" have brought her and the issues she writes about into the international spotlight. Prior to the May 1994... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,193 words) in 1 product

Naigeon, Jacques-André (1738–1810) Naigeon, Jacques-AndrÉ(1738–1810) Jacques-André Naigeon, a French writer, was an associate of Denis Diderot. Naigeon was not an original thinker; he became an editor, compiler, and commentator after having tried paintin... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (0 words) in 1 product

Nail Each finger and toe on the human body has a flat plate commonly called a nail on its uppermost surface. Nails are epithelial cell structures that are composed of a fibrous protein called keratin. The same protein is also the constituent of... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (513 words) in 1 product

Nail (fastener) The earliest nails were probably made in the Middle East about 5,000 years ago. Metal was heated and then pounded into the desired shape. Making nails by hand, one nail at a time, continued as the method of production until the 1700s. The ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,603 words) in 1 product

by Carol Fenner Study Pack: 326 Study Guides About 643,947 pages (193,184,082 words) in 326 products

Nain Singh   Any attempt to establish a chronological opening and closing of Tibet's borders during the eighteenth century will produce conflicting reports—depending on whether they originate in England, India, Nepal, China, or Tibet its... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 15 pages (4,402 words) in 3 products

Nairobi Table of contents Introduction Pre-departure safety tips Be... Study Pack: 2 Essays About 43 pages (12,936 words) in 2 products