Encyclopaedias & Reference Works

A completely new reference from Salem Press, Applied Science covers major fields and technologies in all areas, from agriculture to computers to en...

Crop residues are valuable resources since they form a bulk of ruminant feed in many tropical countries. Due to lack of effective management of the...

Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-se...

Covering trends, issues and case studies, this collection presents 34 new essays by library professionals actively engaged in helping patrons wi...

The International Chess Federation or FIDE (from the French Federation Internationale des Echecs) was founded in Paris in 1924 but only from 195...

Unlike all the planets closer to the Sun, known since antiquity, the farthest reaches are the discoveries of the modern world. Uranus was discovere...

Tony Hillerman is beloved for his novels of intrigue in the American Southwest. In Tony Hillerman's Navajoland, Laurance Linford takes readers on a...

The development of independent India from an agrarian stage to a modern economy began in the early 1950s. After the first four decades of planning,...

Eyewitness to America's Wars features dramatic accounts of life and death during the ferocious battles experienced by our nation's men and women. T...