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Taboo and Genetics Study Pack: 1 eBook About 159 pages (47,586 words) in 1 product

Taboo (BookRags) by James Branch Cabell Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 eBook About 54 pages (16,052 words) in 4 products

Tabriz (2002 pop. 1.2 million). Located in a valley amid the foothills of the Sahand Mountains in Iran, Tabriz, the capital of the province of East Azerbaijan, is a city just east of Lake Orumiyeh. Hot springs in and around the city were induceme... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 16 pages (4,918 words) in 2 products

Tabulating machine Tabulating machines, or punched card machines, were the earliest automated data processing devices. They include keypunch machines, collators, sorters, reproducers, and tabulators. By the late 1980s, virtually all tabulating machines had b... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 8 pages (2,264 words) in 2 products

Joseph-Charles Tache Joseph-Charles Taché was one of the most vigorous founders of the Patriotic School of Quebec, the literary movement which transformed writing from a sporadic occurrence into a distinctive French-Canadian tradition. His activities ex... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 4 pages (1,082 words) in 1 product

Tachihara Masaaki   Tachihara Masaaki's life and work represent a process of resolution of dichotomies, which gives the Western reader a unique perspective on Japanese society and culture in the twentieth century. The dichotomies include problems of identity ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,246 words) in 2 products

Tacitus   Cornelius Tacitus was perhaps the greatest historian that the Roman world produced. Though his Annales (Annals, after A.D. 116) and Historiae (Histories, ca. A.D. 100-110) are among the most remarkable works of Latin prose, their extraordi... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 2 Summaries, 8 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 293 pages (87,823 words) in 14 products

Tacitus and Bracciolini Study Pack: 1 eBook About 309 pages (92,813 words) in 1 product

Tacitus on Germany by Tacitus Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 eBook About 72 pages (21,581 words) in 4 products

Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Tacitus Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 eBook About 389 pages (116,609 words) in 4 products

Tackle Without a Team by Matt Christopher Study Pack: 1 Study Guide About 6 pages (1,707 words) in 1 product

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Introduction: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the third longest suspension span in the world at the time. It was suppose to have been revolutionary in it design, and it was know for it tendency to sway windstorm. Nevertheless, on Novembe... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 11 pages (3,377 words) in 2 products

Tact Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. It is tact that is golden, not silence. Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents. Tact is knowing h... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Quotes About 1 pages (427 words) in 2 products

Tad and Dad (Little Phonics Reader) Study Pack: About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products

Reading by Creative Teaching Press   Numerous amounts of students label themselves as readers. Some may be classified under the category reluctant and underachieving readers while others go the extra mile and categorize themselves as avid and eager readers. As an individua... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 2 Essays, 1 Quotes About 23,093 pages (6,927,822 words) in 8 products

Tad Williams   Fantasy writer Tad Williams has travelled a very colorful career path on his way to--and in addition to--becoming a successful author of novels for fans of imaginative fiction. Singing in a rock band, teaching school, working on the crew o... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,255 words) in 2 products

Tadamichi Kuribayashi Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japanese: 栗林忠道 Kuribayashi Tadamichi) ( 1891-07-07 in Nagano prefecture, Japan - 1945-03-23 on Iwo Jima, Japan) was a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the commander of Japanese defense of ... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Quotes About 7 pages (2,117 words) in 2 products

Tadao Ando   Tadao Ando (born 1941) is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. His designs are often compared to those of Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier and obviously take some inspiration from their work. Characteristics of his work in... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries About 13 pages (3,735 words) in 3 products

Taddeo Alderotti c. 1223-1295 Italian Physician Founder of a medical school in Bologna, Italy, Taddeo Alderotti was an early advocate of serious medical study and practice. It was because of his efforts that the city authorities extended to medical teacher... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (409 words) in 1 product

Taddeo Gaddi c. 1300-1366 Italian Architect and Painter Floods in 1333 destroyed a bridge, built in 1177, that crossed the Arno River in Florence, and 12 years later, the city unveiled a new bridge, designed by the painter Taddeo Gaddi. The Ponte Vecch... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 3 pages (815 words) in 2 products

Tadeus Reichstein   The Polish organic chemist Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex. The son of Isidor Reichstein, an engineer, Tadeus Reichstein was ... Study Pack: 6 Biographies, 2 Summaries, 1 Essay About 19 pages (5,777 words) in 9 products

Tadeusz Borowski   There is broad critical agreement that Tadeusz Borowski's stories are among the best that have been written by any writer, in any language, about the German concentration camp at Auschwitz. Borowski explored what Primo Levi called "the gre... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary, 2 Criticisms About 40 pages (11,899 words) in 5 products

Tadeusz Kościuszko   Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish patriot and a hero in the American Revolution. Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born on Feb. 12, 1746, in the grand duchy of Lithuania, Poland. A member of the small-gentry class, Kosci... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 21 pages (6,360 words) in 4 products

Tadeusz Konwicki   Tadeusz Konwicki belongs to that group of prominent contemporary Polish writers who since the early 1970s have gained unprecedented popularity abroad. With his works widely read in both Europe and America, Konwicki's success is mainly owin... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 18 Criticisms About 143 pages (43,030 words) in 20 products

Tadeusz Kotarbiński   KotarbiŃski, Tadeusz(1886–1981) Tadeusz Kotarbiński, a Polish philosopher and logician, was born in Warsaw in 1886. He studied philosophy and the classics at the University of Lvov, where he obtained his doctorate in 1... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 7 pages (2,234 words) in 2 products

Tadeusz Różewicz   Tadeusz Rózewicz is one of the most original twentieth-century Polish writers. His poetry, drama, and prose works, which have gained him a high reputation at home and abroad, are both innovative and controversial. World War II and i... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 30 Criticisms About 290 pages (86,904 words) in 32 products

Dusan Tadic On May 7, 1997, Serbian Dusan Tadic became the first war criminal convicted of war crimes in the Bosnian War between the Bosnian Muslims and the former Yugoslavia. Tadic had escaped to Munich, Germany, but was extradited to The Hague on Ap... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 2 pages (620 words) in 1 product

Tadpole to Frog (Life Science/Life Cycle-Frogs) Study Pack: About 0 pages (0 words) in 0 products

Science by Creative Teaching Press   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: 5 Summaries, 24 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 18,212 pages (5,463,561 words) in 30 products

Taebaek Mountains The T'aebaek Mountain range in the eastern part of the Korean peninsula is part of the geological "backbone" of the region. This range runs parallel to the coast from Kangwon Province in the north and through North Kyo... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 1 pages (417 words) in 2 products

Taedong River The Taedong River is located in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and flows southwest from the Nangnim mountain range in the northeast region of South P'yongan Province out to the Yellow Sea. With a leng... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 1 pages (296 words) in 2 products

Taejo of Goryeo Wang Kon (877-943) was the founder of the Korean Koryo dynasty and a descendant of a powerful clan at Songdo which controlled maritime trade on the Yesong River. The legends of his ancestors and his rise to power bespeak the clan's intimat... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries About 7 pages (2,174 words) in 3 products

Taejo of Joseon Yi Sng-gye (1335-1408) was the founder of the Yi dynasty, which lasted until 1910. An able military leader, he unified Korea under Chinese suzerainty. Yi Sng-gye was born in modern Ynghung, the second son of Yi Chach'un. Yi's family, origi... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries About 9 pages (2,805 words) in 3 products

Taejonggyo Taejonggyo (the Religion of the Divine Progenitor; sometimes spelled Daejonggyo) was founded by Na Ch'ol (1863–1916) in 1901, a time when Christian missionaries were challenging the traditional religious beliefs and practices... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 2 pages (556 words) in 2 products

Taekwondo Tae kwon do is a Korean martial art that since the 1950s has become popular around the world. It is estimated that over 20 million people in 140 nations participate in the sport. The origins are unclear, and different scholars suggest Kore... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 12 pages (3,676 words) in 2 products

Hungsn Taewn'gun Hungsn Taewn'gun (1820-1898) was a Korean imperial regent and the father of king Kojong. Even after the personal rule by Kojong was inaugurated, Taewn'gun was one of the most powerful figures in the last decades of the Yi dynasty. Hungsn T... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 3 pages (895 words) in 1 product

Pia Tafdrup   Pia Tafdrup is one of the finest Danish poets of the 1980s and 1990s. Her poetry collections have inspired readers and critics in Denmark and Scandinavia as well as at poetry festivals and readings all over the world. From London, Toronto,... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 9 pages (2,656 words) in 2 products

Taff Vale Railway Co. v. Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants   Great Britain 1900-1901 The Taff Vale case centered on a brief but bitterly fought strike waged by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) against the management of the Taff Vale Railway Company in South Wales in August 1900. T... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 9 pages (2,680 words) in 2 products

(Mary) Carmen Tafolla Carmen Tafolla is among the foremost Texas poets to come out of the post-1960s Chicano experience. With most writers of the Chicano Movement, she shares a deep consciousness of social injustice, an identification with life in the barrio, a... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 6 pages (1,657 words) in 1 product

Tafsir   TAFSĪR is an Arabic word meaning "interpretation"; it is, more specifically, the general term used in reference to all genres of literature which are commentaries upon the Qurʾān. The word tafsīr ... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 36 pages (10,772 words) in 2 products

by Carol Fenner Study Pack: 261 Study Guides About 234,388 pages (70,316,322 words) in 261 products

Taft-Hartley Act   United States 1947 The Taft-Hartley Act was characterized by labor unions at the time of its passage as "the slave-labor law," and many of its congressional proponents thought that the law would inhibit the power of labor un... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 17 pages (5,073 words) in 2 products

Taftāzānī, Al- TAFTĀZĀNĪ, AL- (AH 722–791?/1322–1389 CE), more fully Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī; master of a range of intellectual disciplines inclu... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (441 words) in 1 product

Genevieve Taggard   Although Genevieve Taggard's poetry was well known in her time to both literary and popular audiences, her work as a poet is now largely forgotten, and she is best known as the author of The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930). A passi... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,321 words) in 2 products

(Paul) John Taggart John Taggart is one of the most important figures of what one might call the third generation of twentieth-century American experimental poets. He grew up with the innovations of the High Modernists--Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace St... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 17 pages (5,031 words) in 1 product

Taha Hussein Taha Husayn (sometimes spelled Hussein) (1889-1973) is considered one of Egypt's leading men of letters. Blind from early childhood, he devoted his life to intellectual freedom for the writer, critic, and scholar and to the introduction of... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,020 words) in 2 products

Tahar Ben Jelloun   SOURCE: Hussein, Aamer. “The Seller of Jellabas.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4603 (21 June 1991): 21. In the following review, Hussein asserts that Ben Jelloun uses a compressed prose style and structure to focus on an individual mi... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 26 Criticisms About 165 pages (49,469 words) in 27 products

Taharqa Taharqa (reigned ca. 688-ca. 663 BC) was a Nubian pharaoh of Egypt. He was the last ruler of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the so-called Ethiopian Dynasty, and was driven out of Lower Egypt by the Assyrians as they began to conquer Egypt. When... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,420 words) in 2 products

Tai chi chuan Tai chi chuan (taijiquan), sometimes referred to in English as Chinese shadow boxing, is a centuries-old martial arts system. Legend holds that tai chi chuan ("supreme ultimate boxing") was first developed by Zhang Sanfeng, a... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 37 pages (11,090 words) in 4 products

Tai languages Lao is the official language of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Lao is spoken by the political majority, the Lao Loum or Lowland Lao, and by other ethnic groups as a second language. The Lao Loum are composed of the Tai Lao, p... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 5 pages (1,361 words) in 2 products