The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious MindMacmillan, 05.11.2004 - 1096 Seiten The new standard in reference from the nation's leading newspaper: A thorough, authoritative, easy-to-use guide offering deeper coverage on a broad range of essential subjects. Whether you are researching the history of the world, interested in learning more about an obscure medical procedure, exploring environmental trends, studying a great work of literature, looking for tips on how to improve your crossword puzzle skills, or just trying to gain a deeper understanding of the latest current events, this book is for you. An indispensable resource for every home, office, dorm room, and library, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge includes insightful sidebars by Times writers, and covers major categories including art, astronomy, business, sports, history, medicine, philosophy, photography, biology, film, and much more! Years in the making, this one volume is designed to offer more information than any other book on the most popular subjects as well as providing easy-to-access data vital for everyday living. It is the only comprehensive reference book to include authoritative, engaging in-depth essays from experts in almost every field of endeavor, with innovative cross-referencing to allow for to even greater understanding. Featuring: - Biographical dictionary of nearly one thousand of the most important people of every field - Writers Guide to grammar, usage and style - The United States Constitution - The most complete sports section of any one-volume reference book - A thirty-thousand-word history of the world - Crossword dictionary Contributors include: - Jane Brody on health matters - Dennis Overbye on the Big Bang - Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court today - Andrew Revkin on the state of the world's environment - John Noble Wilford on the oldest human fossil - Michael Kimmelman on the origins of photography - Will Shortz on crosswords - Natalie Angier on war - Nicholas Wade on how life began |
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Architecture | 2 |
NonWestern Architecture | 12 |
Gothic | 91 |
Film | 104 |
The Production Crew 39 | 111 |
Musical Forms | 171 |
World Literature | 337 |
Media | 403 |
by Andrew Revkin | 529 |
Egyptian Mythology | 593 |
A REFERENCE LIBRARY | 767 |
History of Western Classical Music 40 | 982 |
World Music | 989 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
20th century advertising Africa African-American Amendment American Arctic Ocean areas artists Asia Atlantic ballet Baroque became began blood British broadcast Buddhism called camera cancer cells central century B.C. China Christian church civil classical colonies companies composers Congress countries Court created Cronus culture dance developed disease early East economic Empire English established Europe European example federal film France French German Greek Hinduism human important India Indian Ocean Indonesia industry instruments investment Islam islands Italy Japan jazz King known later major ment Mesopotamia million modern motet movement Muslim North novel Ocean opera organization percent period photographs planet play poet poetry political popular President produced programs radio religious result River Roman rule Russia songs South South China Sea stars story studio style television theater tion trade traditional United Western World War II Zeus