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Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien   Z for Zachariah In Z for Zachariah there has been a nuclear explosion which Burdon valley survived, as the valley is a nuclear enclave which means a place has its own climate, and Anne a girl who was left at home when her family went ou... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Biography, 1 Essay About 174 pages (52,209 words) in 3 products

Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 eBook About 61 pages (18,430 words) in 3 products

Zabdiel Boylston Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766) was the first American physician to use inoculation against smallpox in 1721 during a Boston epidemic. Zabdiel Boylston was born March 9, 1679, near the present city of Brookline, Mass., and studied medicine wi... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 2 pages (733 words) in 2 products

Zabriskie Point (film) Zabriskie Point is Antonioni's clearest statement on a world that has perhaps already ended without realizing it, leaving us all hanging on by flywheel effect waiting for the desensitized apocalypse (like the Nathanael West who haunted airp... Study Pack: 2 Criticisms About 9 pages (2,765 words) in 2 products

Cheryl Zach Award-winning young adult author Cheryl Zach was walking on a street in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1995 when she "had an epiphany-- a moment when time seems to stop and you receive a sudden insight or revelation." As she explained in her essay i... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 8 pages (2,534 words) in 1 product

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae "Du bist uns kaum entwichen, und schwermütig ziehen / Aus dumpfen Höhlen . . . Verdruß und Langeweile" (You have only just disappeared, and heavily rise / Frustration and boredom ... from musty caves). Johann Wolfgang Goeth... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 7 pages (2,077 words) in 1 product

Zachariah Chandler A U.S. senator during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Zachariah Chandler (1813-1879) was a leading Republican and helped shape Reconstruction policy toward the South. Zachariah Chandler was born on Dec. 10, 1813, on a farm in Bedford Tow... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 13 pages (3,907 words) in 1 product

Zachary Taylor   Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), twelfth president of the United States, was, as one of the two military heroes of the Mexican War, the last Whig president. Living in a time when generals were politically appointed and the Army poorly trained, ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 37 pages (11,155 words) in 2 products

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Zadie Smith British writer Zadie Smith has published only two novels: White Teeth, winner of two major literary awards and with over one million copies in print, and The Autograph Man. Smith burst into the international fiction scene with the publicat... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,658 words) in 1 product

Mikhail Zagoskin One of the best-known writers of the 1820s and 1830s, Mikhail Nikolaevich Zagoskin started his literary career as a successful playwright and subsequently worked in several other prose genres, but he is remembered primarily as an historica... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 23 pages (6,847 words) in 1 product

Zagros Mountains The Zagros Mountains, in western Iran, lie along and across the border between Iraq and Iran. Consisting of a series of ridges running parallel to the Persian Gulf and northward along portions of Iran's borders with Turkey and Iraq,... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (966 words) in 1 product

Peterson Zah Peterson Zah (born 1937) has devoted his life to the service of the Navajo people. He has been active in the field of education, in legal matters, in attempts to reconcile disputes with the Hopi, and in efforts to resolve the issues of dep... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,405 words) in 1 product

Zaha Hadid "Utopia: n .an impractical idealistic scheme for social and political reform" - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition For over twenty years the Iraqi-born, English educated architect Zaha Hadid has symbo... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 11 pages (3,360 words) in 1 product

Zainichi Korean The integration of Koreans into Japanese society has always been a major social, economic, and political issue. The following description of Korean housing in Japan in the late nineteenth century indicates that house style was one cultural... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (159 words) in 1 product

Dane Zajc The poetry and the poetic plays of Dane Zajc brought a significant change into Slovene literature after World War II. Together with Gregor Strnisa and Veno Taufer, at the end of the 1950s Zajc opted for poetry whose goal is not a sentiment... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 14 pages (4,305 words) in 1 product

Zakat ZAKĀT is a Qurʾanic term that signifies the specific obligation of giving a portion of an individual's wealth and possessions for primarily charitable purposes. The word is derived from a root meaning "to be pur... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,431 words) in 1 product

Zakes Mda Zakes Mda occupies a unique position in the annals of contemporary South African theater. The publication of two novels in 1995--She Plays with the Darkness (winner of the Sanlam Literary Award for 1995) and Ways of Dying (winner of the Ol... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 30 pages (9,043 words) in 1 product

Mara Zalite Mara Zalite represents the generation of Latvian writers that matured as artists under Soviet occupation. There are signs of political and intellectual malaise with the constraints of that regime in her own early poetry as well as in her c... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 4 pages (1,321 words) in 1 product

Zalmoxis ZALMOXIS was the founder, possibly legendary, of a priestly line of succession closely linked with kingship of the Getae and the Dacians, the northernmost Thracian peoples of the ancient world. Whether he is a figure of legend or of histor... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 13 pages (3,836 words) in 1 product

Adela Zalmudio Adela Zamudio is Bolivia's most widely acclaimed female intellectual and a founding figure of its feminist movement. She dedicated herself to writing and teaching and vigorously defended the causes of the Bolivian Liberal Party in public f... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (2,939 words) in 1 product

Sergei Pavlovich Zalygin A writer of prose, as well as a literary critic, editor, and outspoken defender of the environment, Sergei Zalygin had a long and prolific career. Zalygin wrote short stories, essays, novellas, and novels. Although Zalygin is best known fo... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,057 words) in 1 product

Zamakhshari ZAMAKHSHARĪ, AL- (AH 467–538/1075–1144 CE), fully Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī; Muslim philologist and Qurʾān commentator. Born in Khorezm in nort... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (960 words) in 1 product

Zambales Mountains The Zambales Mountains in the Philippines stretch from the northern part of Zambales Province to the northern edge of Bataan Province. This range comprises nearly the whole province of Zambales. There are eight named mountains in the range... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (291 words) in 1 product

Zambia   Republic of Zambia CAPITAL: Lusaka FLAG: The flag is green, with a tricolor of dark red, black, and orange vertical stripes at the lower corner of the fly, topped by a golden flying eagle. ANTHEM: Stand and Sing for Zambia. MONETARY UNIT: ... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 77 pages (23,211 words) in 3 products

Zamboanga City (2000 pop. 603,000). Located at the tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Mindanao Island group in the Philippines, the City of Zamboanga is a chartered city independent of the province of Zamboanga del Sur in terms of funding, administrat... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 19 pages (5,644 words) in 1 product

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde The book Zami, A New Spelling of My Name, by Audre Lorde was written in the late 1950's. The novel traces back Audre Lorde's childhood from when she was growing up in Harlem through her many discoveries in life, which relate to her blind a... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies, 1 Essay About 160 pages (47,980 words) in 4 products

Bernice (B. Ortiz) Zamora Bernice Zamora's considerable reputation as a poet rests largely on one book, Restless Serpents (1976). Other poems, essays, reviews, and short stories by Zamora appeared in journals and anthologies during the formative years of the Chican... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 8 pages (2,389 words) in 1 product

Herbert Zand Herbert Zand, who was drafted into the German army and severely wounded on the eastern front during World War II, wrote a war novel and a novel on postwar Vienna, and many of his essays and stories explore the effects of Hitler and the war... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (2,925 words) in 1 product

Zane Grey   Ask anyone to name a western writer and chances are the first name to come to mind will be Zane Grey (1872-1939). Considered to be the father of the modern American western novel, Grey was beloved by two generations of readers. His strengt... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 Summary About 49 pages (14,630 words) in 4 products

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 1 eBook About 492 pages (147,514 words) in 4 products

Zap Comix Considered by pop-culture critics to be the quintessential underground comic book of the 1960s, Zap Comix can trace its genealogy to the publication of Jack Jaxon's God Nose in 1963. By 1999, there were estimated to be more than two... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,320 words) in 1 product

Zapatista Army of National Liberation ZAPATISMO AND INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE. The EZLN's (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) seizure of five municipalities on January 1, 1994, in Chiapas follows a tradition of insurrections and armed rebellions dating back to the arriv... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 45 pages (13,585 words) in 2 products

Federico Mayor Zaragosa The Spanish biochemist Federico Mayor Zaragosa (born 1934) served on various medical and scientific advisory committees and in the Spanish government before beginning his association with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,509 words) in 1 product

Amina of Zaria Amina of Zaria (1533-1610"), commonly known as the warrior queen, expanded the territory of the Hausa people of north Africa to the largest borders in history. More than 400 years later, the legend of her persona became the model for a tel... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 6 pages (1,646 words) in 1 product

Zarlah the Martian Study Pack: 1 eBook About 104 pages (31,083 words) in 1 product

Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky A prolific and long-lived writer of narodnik (populist) orientation, Pavel Vladimirovich Zasodimsky was actively involved in Russian literary life from the late 1860s until his death in 1912. He contributed to (and at times helped edit) th... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 19 pages (5,687 words) in 1 product

Ulrich von Zatzikhoven (BookRags) Ulrich von Zatzikhoven occupies an uncertain place in medieval German literature of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Overshadowed by the works of such monumental figures as Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Straßburg, a... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,065 words) in 1 product

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan   Shaykh Zayid bin Sultan Al-Nahyan (born 1923) served for 18 years as the governor of the Buraimi Oasis and for five years as the ruler of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the Trucial States, before becoming president of the United Arab Emi... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 18 pages (5,489 words) in 2 products

Zaynab bint Ali ZAYNAB BINT ʿALĪ (c. AH 5–62; 626/7–682 CE), daughter of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʾ, was the first granddaughter of the prophet Mu ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,299 words) in 1 product

Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Brzezinski (born 1928) was assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs during the Carter administration (1977-1980). Later he was associated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 38 pages (11,290 words) in 1 product

Zbigniew Herbert In many ways Zbigniew Herbert is a paradigmatic twentieth-century Eastern European poet. His life and poetry, like the fate of his native country and the history of the region, were indelibly marked by the experiences of World War II and o... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 7 Criticisms About 151 pages (45,262 words) in 9 products

Zealotry ZEALOTS. The Zealots were Jewish revolutionaries in first-century Israel whose religious zeal led them to fight to the death against Roman domination and to attack or kill other Jews who collaborated with the Romans. Scholars disagree as t... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 9 pages (2,807 words) in 1 product

Zeami Motokiyo   Kanze Zeami (1364-1444), also called Zeami Motokiyo, was a Japanese actor, playwright, and critic. His theoretical works on the art of the No are as justly celebrated as his dramas. It was the great esthete, statesman, and patron of the fi... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 11 Criticisms About 213 pages (63,762 words) in 13 products

Zebra Zebras are striped members of the horse family (Equidae) native to Africa. These grazing animals stand 4–5 ft (1.2–1.5 m) high at the shoulders and are distinctive because of their striking white and black or dark brown str... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,374 words) in 1 product

Zebrafish The zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio) is a small tropical freshwater fish that began to be used as a genetic model system in the early 1980s. The zebrafish shares numerous anatomical and genetic similarities with higher vertebrates, including ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 9 pages (2,579 words) in 1 product

The Zebra (letter/sound association for 'z') Study Pack: About 4 pages (1,200 words) in 0 products