Sir Moses I. Finley CBE (May 20, 1912–June 23, 1986) was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy (1973), where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in anti...

The American anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn (1905-1960) is known for his field work among the Navaho Indians, his contributions to the theory of culture, and his attempts to unify social sciences through interdisciplinary communication. Cl...

in architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Although the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it is more often applied specifically to t...

Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October, 1912; the first book edition was publ...

The chance of financial harm plus the chance that a borrower will renege owing to MORAL HAZARD....

historic region of southwestern Asia associated with the area that is now modern Iran. The term Persia was used for centuries and originated from a region of southern Iran formerly known as Persis, alternatively as Pārs or Parsa, mod...

Candace Bushnell (born December 1 1958 in Glastonbury, Connecticut) is a writer based in New York City. She is best known for writing a sex column that became the basis of the hit TV-series, Sex and the City. Bushnell married New York City ...

James Baldwin's impact on the American consciousness was twofold: as an author, his accounts of his experiences struck a cord with his readers; as an activist, his vision and abilities helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement. A gifted writer...

For the film at Epcot see Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable...

James Moloney (born 1954) is an Australian children's author who has written around thirty books including The Book of Lies, Dougy, Crossfire, The House on River Terrace, and A Bridge to Wiseman's Cove, which won the Australian Children's B...

Civil Rights Movement in the United States The civil rights movement in the United States has a long history, beginning with the political framing of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, which compromised the rights of African Americans. In the T...

The modern interpretation of Le Châtelier's principle states that if a system at equilibrium, which occurs when the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction, is disturbed, the system will shift so as to re...

Arthur Mervyn is a novel written by Charles Brockden Brown and published in 1799. It was one of Brown's more popular novels, and is in many ways representative of Brown's dark, gothic style and subject matter....

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is also known as Enterprise Asset Management. A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. This information is inten...

Robert Neil, Aristophanes' Knights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901); Maurice Platnauer, Aristophanes' Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964); Kenneth Dover, Aristophanes' Clouds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968); ...

A Hero of Our Time (Russian: Герой нашего времени) is a short novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or anti-h...

"The Clerk's Tale" is the first tale of Group E in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It is followed by the Merchant's Tale. The Clerk of Oxenford (modern Oxford) is a student of what would nowadays be considered philosophy or theolog...