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Names of Horses by Donald Hall Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies About 35 pages (10,444 words) in 3 products

Names the Days of the Week (Measurement) Study Pack: About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products

The Names by Don DeLillo Don DeLillo is a formidable prose stylist; as Fred Allen once said of another literary craftsman, "He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose." From time to time DeLillo thinks as keenly as he writes, and it i... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies, 2 Criticisms About 248 pages (74,426 words) in 5 products

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Biography About 195 pages (58,393 words) in 2 products

Namibia   Republic of Namibia CAPITAL: Windhoek FLAG: Top left triangle is blue, center diagonal band is red, and the bottom right triangle is green. Colors are separated by narrow white bands. On the blue triangle is a golden sun with twelve triang... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 59 pages (17,658 words) in 3 products

Naming Patterns (labeling) Study Pack: About 1 pages (300 words) in 0 products

Naming the Names by Anne Devlin Study Pack: 1 Study Guide About 40 pages (11,928 words) in 1 product

Lensey Namioka Lensey Namioka worked primarily as a mathematics instructor before beginning her career as a published writer in the mid-1970s. As she once told Something about the Author, her works "draw heavily" on her "Chinese cultural heritage and on ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,715 words) in 1 product

Fernando (Goncalves) Namora Fernando Namora lived during the social dynamism in Portugal that changed the shape of Lusitanian literature. He participated in the new literary movement called neorealism. Some writers tried to take fiction in new directions in defiance ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,155 words) in 1 product

Nampo (2001 est. pop. 645,000). Namp'o (Chinnampo) is a major port and industrial city on the west coast of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The city is 55 kilometers southwest of Pyongyang and 8 kilometers ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (182 words) in 1 product

Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Study Pack: 1 eBook About 150 pages (45,119 words) in 1 product

Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Study Pack: 1 eBook About 147 pages (44,217 words) in 1 product

Nanci Griffith Almost alone among commercially successful singer-songwriters within folk and country music, Nanci Griffith represents a refreshing contrast to the bland offerings of the music industry's hit-making machinery. Defying easy categoriz... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,221 words) in 1 product

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor American-born Nancy Langhorne Astor (1879-1964) became the first woman to serve as a member of the British Parliament, a position she held from 1919 to 1945. Born in Danville, Virginia, on May 19, 1879, Nancy Langhorne grew up in the strai... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 20 pages (5,929 words) in 1 product

Nancy (BookRags) by Rhoda Broughton Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 eBook About 374 pages (112,158 words) in 2 products

Nancy Cartwright (philosopher) Cartwright, Nancy(1944–) Nancy Cartwright, as of 2005, held several academic positions, including professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (since 1991); ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,550 words) in 1 product

Nancy Cunard Nancy Cunard was an important and notoriously bohemian figure in avant-garde literary, artistic, and political circles from 1916 on and throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Between 1928 and 1931 she operated the Hours Press in La Chapelle-R&eac... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 25 pages (7,345 words) in 1 product

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene When Edward Stratemeyer conceived of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories in 1929, he envisioned a girls' version of his popular Hardy Boys series. He hoped it would prove successful, but he could not have foreseen that it would fast beco... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Summary About 37 pages (11,157 words) in 2 products

Nancy Farmer (author) Award-winning novelist Nancy Farmer writes "large-scale stories in which children battle inner demons and ferocious villains in a series of perilous adventures through hostile but richly conceived landscapes," according to Roger Sutton, wr... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 20 pages (5,962 words) in 2 products

Nancy Friday There is a cliché in American culture that men are principally interested in sex, while women are mostly concerned with love. In helping to debunk this myth, Nancy Friday has performed an invaluable national service. She is one of the... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,299 words) in 1 product

Nancy Garden Nancy Garden, winner of the 2003 Margaret A. Edwards Award, is chiefly known for her candid fiction on gay and lesbian issues. Garden was among the first authors for young adults to write of lesbian romance from a positive, affirming persp... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 22 pages (6,564 words) in 2 products

Nancy Harkness Love Born February 14, 1914 Houghton, Michigan Died October 22, 1976 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Aviator... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 10 pages (3,050 words) in 1 product

Nancy Kassebaum Baker As a U.S. senator from Kansas, Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born 1932) was a political maverick whose stands ranged from support of the Equal Rights Amendment and a woman's right to choose abortion to support for the failed nomination of ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (1,975 words) in 1 product

Nancy Kerrigan   Most people who watch Nancy Kerrigan skate think she looks like a fairy princess because she moves with such style and grace. What people do not know about her, however, is that she is a tough competitor willing to work hard to achieve her... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 13 pages (3,934 words) in 2 products

Nancy Kress "All forms of biological manipulation will be it for the twenty-first century," predicted award-winning science fiction writer Nancy Kress in an interview with Authors and Artists for Young Adults. "We're on the verge of a biotech explosio... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 13 pages (3,819 words) in 1 product

Nancy Lopez   Nancy López is one of the youngest women golfers to achieve professional success. Since 1978, she has consistently ranked among the top women players. She is one of only five women in the sport to have earned more than $1 million in... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 12 pages (3,625 words) in 2 products

Nancy Lopez and Family Study Pack: About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products

Nancy Lopez and Family/Nancy Lóprz y su familia Study Pack: About 11 pages (3,300 words) in 0 products

Nancy MacIntyre Study Pack: 1 eBook About 44 pages (13,216 words) in 1 product

Nancy Meyers Producer, director, and writer Nancy Meyers is best known for screenwriting collaborations with Charles Shyer, collaborations that resulted in films the couple often produced and directed as well. From their break-out hit with Private Benj... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,754 words) in 1 product

Nancy Mitford Although Nancy Mitford claimed in The Water Beetle (1962) to remember "almost nothing" about her childhood--"It is shrouded in a thick mist which seldom lifts except on the occasion of some public event"--she plundered material from her li... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 17 pages (5,051 words) in 1 product

Nancy Morgan Hart Born c. 1744North Carolina or PennsylvaniaDied c. 1841Henderson County, Kentucky Farmer, spy Legend has it that Nancy Morgan Hart captured British soldiers during the American Revolution, then sang the words to "Yankee Doodle"... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,270 words) in 1 product

Nancy, the Nightingale Study Pack: About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products

Nancy Ward Nancy Ward (1738--1822), a mixed-blood Cherokee woman who lived during the eighteenth century, was the Cherokee nation's last "Beloved Woman." At a time that the Cherokee nation was frequently at battle with American troops and white settl... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (2,953 words) in 1 product

Nancy Wexler Psychologist Nancy Wexler (born 1945) researches Huntington's disease. She developed a presymptomatic test for the condition and identified the genes responsible for the disease. Nancy Wexler's research on Huntington's disease has led to t... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,219 words) in 3 products

ĀNandamayī Mā ĀNANDAMAYĪ MĀ (the bliss-permeated Mother, 1896–1982) was a leading Hindu spiritual master in twentieth-century India. She was regarded a divine manifestation by her disciples, who came from all strata of the In... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (1,016 words) in 1 product

Nang drama The principal traditional dramatic genres of Thailand are khon (masked drama), lakhon (dance-drama), likay (folk opera), nang (shadow theater) and hun (puppet theater). While there is a secondary school that specializes in training childre... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,164 words) in 1 product

Nangnim Range Mt. Nangnim (Nangnimsan) lies between Huich'on-gun in North P'yongan Province and Yongwon-gun in South P'yongan Province in North Korea. The mountain is 2,184 meters in height. It is the central and highest peak of the... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (141 words) in 1 product

Nanjing   The Forgotten Holocaust : Why was such savagery inflicted on a nation the Japanese once regarded as their main source of cultural inspiration, their Rome and Greece? The Japanese invasion of China lasted from 1931 to 1945, immediately b... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 32 pages (9,446 words) in 2 products

Nanking Massacre The Nanjing Massacre (also known as the Nanking Massacre) refers to the war crimes perpetrated by Japanese troops during their invasion and occupation of Nanjing, China, from December 1937 to February 1938. These crimes included the execut... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 24 pages (7,093 words) in 1 product

Nannerl O. Keohane Nannerl Overholser Keohane (born 1940), a professor of political science, is the first woman to become the president of both a U.S. women's college, Wellesley, and a major research university, Duke. Dr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane has broke... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 8 pages (2,333 words) in 1 product

The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus Study Pack: 1 Study Guide About 42 pages (12,609 words) in 1 product

Nanotechnology   "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." This is the title of Richard Feynman speech on nanotechnology delivered in 1959, through which the theory of nanotechnology was first introduced. After its introduction in 1959 the first comprehensiv... Study Pack: 11 Summaries, 2 Essays About 81 pages (24,390 words) in 13 products

Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore has its origin in the former Nanyang Technological Institute (NTI), which was set up in August 1981 to provide tertiary education and research in engineering and technology. NTU was estab... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 10 pages (3,025 words) in 1 product

Naomi Campbell Discovered while shopping in 1985, British model Naomi Campbell became an instant success in the United States, where she metamorphosed from a sweet schoolgirl into a polished—and, many would say, primadonna—professional. Her... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,143 words) in 1 product

Naomi James Naomi James was the first woman to sail around the globe single-handedly. In June 1978, on her fifty-three-foot sloop Express Crusader, she completed her voyage after 272 days at sea, shaving two days off the record Sir Francis Chichester ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 18 pages (5,470 words) in 1 product

Naomi Long Madgett In the foreword to Phantom Nightingale: Juvenilia (1981) poet, teacher, and publisher Naomi Long Madgett notes: "I do not recall any time in my life when I was not involved with poetry." Since 1941 Madgett has published seven volumes of po... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 14 pages (4,277 words) in 1 product

Naomi Mitchison During her long and creative life Naomi Mitchison has achieved a remarkable reconciliation between the practical everyday world and the realms of myth, remote cultures, and history. At the age of sixty she began to write about the future w... Study Pack: 3 Biographies About 35 pages (10,611 words) in 3 products

Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning poet who has turned her hand to children's books--poetry anthologies, picture books, and young adult novels--which in one way or another deal with the idea of connections. In award-winning anthologies s... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 23 pages (6,738 words) in 2 products

Naomi Wallace In order to dissect the body politic, Naomi Wallace writes plays about the politics of the body. She emerged in the 1990s, first in England and later in the United States, as a poet-turned-playwright with a fierce commitment to examining i... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 17 pages (4,972 words) in 1 product