This is the most comprehensive book available on all aspects of Irish life, culture, and history. With thousands of entries and more than 700 illustrations and maps, it encompasses the whole of Ireland—its islands and seas, its people both home and abroad—and provides fascinating facts about subjects from prehistory to the present.

This unprecedented collection of thousands of science fiction and fantasy quotations draws on the best science fiction works ever created in print, film, and television. From H. G. Wells to Ursula Le Guin, from the Three Laws of Robotics to the Prime Directive, the book encompasses every topic a curious sci fi writer or enthusiast would wish to explore.

This superb reference work features almost 3,000 entries dealing with all aspects of Western art from 1300 to the present. Along with vivid and up-to-date characterizations of artistic styles and individual artists, the extensively cross-referenced entries describe and explain technical processes, theory, schools, movements, patrons and collecting, and more. In addition, conceptual entries cover a full range of subjects from allegory to abstraction.

This welcome book offers down-to-earth advice for busy teachers on how best to use instructional technology. Organized around such specific goals and tasks as communication with students, distribution of course materials, or collaborative learning, the guide shows when and how technology can help teachers at all instructional levels to meet everyday challenges. A CD-ROM accompanies the book.

This authoritative, comprehensive, and lavishly illustrated single-volume encyclopedia is a rich source of information about the many American West’s real and imaginary, old and new, stretching from coast to coast and throughout the country’s history and culture. It discusses discoverers and mountain men, Native American tribes, politicians from Benjamin Franklin to Ronald Reagan, major cities and landmarks, conservation and wildlife issues, and many other topics central to America&#...

From Jamaica to Japan, from Ghana to Germany, this unique anthology of proverbs about women provides revealing insights into the female condition across centuries and continents. Mineke Schipper analyzes the similarities, differences and contradictions in cultural norms about gender expressed in thousands of proverbs from over 150 countries.

While many people understand the importance of biodiversity in the wild, few are aware of the need for preserving diversity in domestic livestock. With each extinction of a farm animal breed we risk losing genetic traits of vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress. This comprehensive, definitive book offers complete information on more than 130 endangered livestock breeds and more than 50 poultry breeds. It is extensively illustrated with color photographs and line draw...

This helpful and up-to-date book is written to guide educators through the process of designing and implementing an effective academic course Web site. Multimedia specialist Sarah Horton focuses on practical matters related to creating Web-based instructional materials and shows how a Web site can enhance teaching, enrich course content, and provide new opportunities for collaboration and customization.

For anyone who has ever felt bewildered, dismayed, or even infuriated by the Internet, this helpful book clearly explains computer communications and how to become literate in cyberspace. With lively stories and interesting case histories, Laura Gurak shows how to sort fact from fiction, detect hoaxes, identify advertising masquerading as product information, protect privacy, and contend with other critical issues related to the new language of the Internet.