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  • Great Events from History: Modern Scandals: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access

    Carl L Bankston

    Hardcover (Salem Press, March 1, 2009)
    This three-volume set covers 388 of the most important and most publicized scandals throughout the world since the beginning of the 20th century.
  • Magill's Choice: Notable Natural Disasters

    Salem Press

    Hardcover (Salem Press, April 1, 2007)
    Overview essays on disaster types explain the disaster in scientific terms and discuss the science behind the phenomenon. the overviews are followed by entries on the 100 worst disasters in history. these narrative -style essays offer facts, figures, and interesting stories. Each event entry begins with a general description of location or the popular designation for the disaster, plus the most accurate date for the event. Magnitude on the Richter scale, either official or estimated, is given for earthquakes.
  • Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives-Vol.1

    Carl L Bankston III

    Hardcover (Salem Press, Jan. 1, 2007)
    Notorious Lives includes 637 biographies of notorious personages, from the merely controversial to extremely negative, from ancient times to the present and worldwide, with emphasis on their roles in historical events or impact on law enforcement or popular culture. Scope of coverage includes ancient times to the present, worldwide, with an emphasis on the North American and the West but including figures as diverse as Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Idi Amin, Ted Bundy, and Osama Bin Laden. The set spans classic figures such as Hitler to contemporary figures such as Aileen Wuornos. Controversial figures--from Mao Zedong to Richard Nixon--are also included. Legendary figures, from Salome to Robin Hood, are also addressed. Personages covered are remembered for their infamy but also for their key historical roles.
  • Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1971-2000: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access

    Robert F Gorman

    Hardcover (Salem Press, April 1, 2008)
    Coverage in this set includes the end of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1973, the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the completion of sequencing the human genome in 2000.
  • Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access

    Christina J Moose

    Hardcover (Salem Press, April 1, 2005)
    Worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement who flourished in the period. Plus complimentary online access to the full content of this great reference.
  • Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independent and Underground Classics-Volume 2

    Bart H Beaty

    Library Binding (Salem Press, May 15, 2012)
    These volumes offer 215 essays covering graphic novels and core comics series,focusing on the independents and underground genre. Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem Literature.
  • Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independent and Underground Classics-Volume 3

    Bart H Beaty

    Library Binding (Salem Press, May 15, 2012)
    These volumes offer 215 essays covering graphic novels and core comics series,focusing on the independents and underground genre. Plus, complimentary online access is provided through Salem Literature.
  • U.S. Supreme Court-Vol.2

    Thomas T Lewis

    Hardcover (Salem Press, Feb. 1, 2007)
    The U.S. Supreme Court is an affordable, comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the history and functions of the Supreme Court. There are articles on all the justices, including those appointed by Geroge W. Bush, articles on key constitutional issues and more than 110 on landmark cases.
  • Independents and Underground Classics :3 volume set

    Bart H Beaty

    Hardcover (Salem Press, May 1, 2012)
    Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Independent and Underground Classics offers 215 essays covering graphic novels and core comics series, focusing on the independents and underground genre that form today's canon for academic coursework and library collections.
  • Great Lives from History, Volume 7: The 20th Century, 1901-2000: Thomas Hunt Morgan-Jackson Pollock

    Robert F Gorman

    Hardcover (Salem Press, Sept. 1, 2008)
    The 20th Century is the eighth installment in the revised and expanded Great Lives series, which provides in-depth critical, biographical essays from around the world. This brand new, ten-volume set offers more than 1,300 extensive biographies of major personages in world history from 1901-2000. Each essay ranges from 3 to 5 pages in length and displays standard ready-reference top matter offering easy access biographical information. The body of each essay is divided into three major sections: Early Life, Life's Work, and Significance. The set also includes several appendixes and indexes and a pronunication key.
  • Great Events from History, Volume 3: The 20th Century

    Robert F Gorman

    Library Binding (Salem Press, March 1, 2007)
    Great Events from History: The 20th Century (1901-1940) organizes coverage of world events chronologically for in-depth understanding in historical context. Continuing the series Great Events from History, these volumes bring up the world's most important events and developments from 1901 through 1940. The events covered include the curriculum-oriented geopolitical events of the era--from World War I (1914-1918) and the Russian Revolution (1917) to the rise of the German Nazi Party, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the eruption of World War II in Europe (1939).
  • Vanished Arizona: Recollections the Army Life of a New England Woman

    Martha Summerhayes

    Hardcover (The Salem Press, Jan. 1, 1911)
    The recollections of Army life around the turn of the 20th century. What makes this so unusual is that it is the memoir of a Woman.