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Represents various areas of psychology, including cognition, developmental psychology, emotion, intelligence, learning, personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. Among the topics given main entries are abnormality, aggression, crowd behavior, dream analysis, the endocrine system, intelligence tests, learned helplessness, phobias, smell and taste, substance abuse, suicide and visual development.
An addition to the successful Masterpieces of . . . series, this guide summarizes, explains, and evaluates the greatest works of American literature, including books by John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Carl Sandburg and many others.
This is a comprehensive encyclopedia that provides the general reader or student with an insight into the main topics and concerns of sociology. It contains 335 signed articles with a comprehensive glossary of terms, annotated bibliographies, and subject and general indices. A closing bibliography by Professor Alan Sica offers a context of general readings for the individual entries.
A critical summary of some of the most noted works of Latino literature offers explanation and evaluation of writings by Jorge Amado, Octavio Paz, Carlos Casteneda, and others.
A five-volume set of biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of 459 individuals whose contributions influenced world culture and the social development of societies flourishing in earlier centuries.
A five-volume set of biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of some 400 Americans, presenting their contributions and impact on United States history and development and including individual bibliographies.
"This 'edition combines the characters profiled in Cyclopedias of Literary Characters (1963) and Literary Characters II (1990). It also includes all characters that appeared in more recent works of Masterplots II published through 1995.' Publisher's Note. 'Entries are arranged alphabetically by the title of the work ... [They] begin with the book's title, foreign title if originally published in a language other than English, author's name with birth and death years, date of first publication, genre, locale, time of action, and plot type. Characters are arranged in order of importance; major characters have 100- to 150-word write-ups. Volume 5 contains three indexes: title, author, and character.'" Booklist.