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Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
Renaissance-era topics most studied in high school world history, art, literature, economics, and science curriculum. Includes entries on a range of topics, including Florence, Galileo, heraldry, Medici family, opera, piracy, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others. Includes a master chronology with topical timelines, a bibliography with age-appropriate further reading sources, and a comprehensive index.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
More than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.
Traditional Festivals: a Multicultural Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO - History Reference Online eBook.
Visual Dictionary Online
A reference work combining dictionary-scale definitions with detailed diagrams and illustrations. Search for contextual definitions of 20,000 terms and for diagrams and illustrations by keyword or browse a thematic index of 6,000 full-color images.
YourDictionary.com
Online English dictionary providing definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results as well as specialized dictionaries, thesauri or glossaries, and other guides on acronym and abbreviations, style, rhyming and pronunciation, speech synth, and more.