Dorling Kindersley Illustrated Family Encyclopedia (Volume 2. I-Z) By Jayne Parsons (editor)
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd 2002 | 475 Pages | ISBN: 0751339296 | PDF | 149 MB

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Asia & Oceania
Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 141441093X | edition 2007 | PDF | 966 pages | 16,7 mb
The volume on leaders is especially useful, providing hard-to-find biographical information on lesser-known heads of state. These profiles, mostly written or updated in 2000, have been culled from a variety of print and web sources. The volume on the United Nations is a superb ready reference, describing the history and structure of U.N. agencies and including useful comparative statistical tables. A very minor quibble: the country volumes do not contain signed entries. Still, this set is an outstanding source providing reliable, comprehensive, and easily accessible information for frequently asked reference questions.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Europe
Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 1414410948 | edition 2007 | PDF | 758 pages | 19,7 mb
The volume on leaders is especially useful, providing hard-to-find biographical information on lesser-known heads of state. These profiles, mostly written or updated in 2000, have been culled from a variety of print and web sources. The volume on the United Nations is a superb ready reference, describing the history and structure of U.N. agencies and including useful comparative statistical tables. A very minor quibble: the country volumes do not contain signed entries. Still, this set is an outstanding source providing reliable, comprehensive, and easily accessible information for frequently asked reference questions.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Americas
Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 1414410921 | edition 2007 | PDF | 589 pages | 14,2 mb
The volume on leaders is especially useful, providing hard-to-find biographical information on lesser-known heads of state. These profiles, mostly written or updated in 2000, have been culled from a variety of print and web sources. The volume on the United Nations is a superb ready reference, describing the history and structure of U.N. agencies and including useful comparative statistical tables. A very minor quibble: the country volumes do not contain signed entries. Still, this set is an outstanding source providing reliable, comprehensive, and easily accessible information for frequently asked reference questions.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Afrika
Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 1414410913 | edition 2007 | PDF | 765 pages | 14,4 mb
The volume on leaders is especially useful, providing hard-to-find biographical information on lesser-known heads of state. These profiles, mostly written or updated in 2000, have been culled from a variety of print and web sources. The volume on the United Nations is a superb ready reference, describing the history and structure of U.N. agencies and including useful comparative statistical tables. A very minor quibble: the country volumes do not contain signed entries. Still, this set is an outstanding source providing reliable, comprehensive, and easily accessible information for frequently asked reference questions.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Volume 1 UNITEDNATIONS
Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 1414410905 | edition 2007 | PDF | 444 pages | 11,7 mb
The volume on leaders is especially useful, providing hard-to-find biographical information on lesser-known heads of state. These profiles, mostly written or updated in 2000, have been culled from a variety of print and web sources. The volume on the United Nations is a superb ready reference, describing the history and structure of U.N. agencies and including useful comparative statistical tables. A very minor quibble: the country volumes do not contain signed entries. Still, this set is an outstanding source providing reliable, comprehensive, and easily accessible information for frequently asked reference questions.

New Catholic Encyclopedia: Jubilee Volume
Publisher: The Catholic University of America | ISBN: 078764787X | edition 2001 | PDF | 679 pages | 13,5 mb
The Catholic University of America and the Gale Group have collaboratively produced this Jubilee Volume of The New Catholic Encyclo pedia, which reviews the pontificate of Karol Wojtyla, also known as John Paul II. It needs to be clearly noted that the Jubilee Volume (so called to mark the pope's designation of the year 2000 as a "Jubilee Year") is not the fifth supplement to the original 15-volume edition, published in 1967, but an introduction to the forthcoming revised edition, scheduled for release in October 2001.

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States Volume 2 Nebraska to Wyoming and District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Dependencies, and U.S. Overview
Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 1414411227 | edition 2006 | PDF | 530 pages | 11,5 mb
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States Volume 2 Nebraska to Wyoming by Gale Cengage

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States Volume 1 Alabama to Montana
Publisher: Gale Cengage | ISBN: 1414411219 | edition 2007 | PDF | 509 pages | 11,2 mb
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States Volume 1 Alabama to Montana by Gale Cengage

A Brief History of the Olympic Games
Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 1405111291 | January 5, 2004 | 200 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence.
Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.

Concise Encyclopedia of Plastics
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 0792384962 | edition 2000 | PDF | 679 pages | 59,4 mb
The Concise Encyclopedia of Plastics is the unified source of reliable and accessible information covering the dynamic field of plastics. The Encyclopedia contains over 25,000 extensively cross-referenced terms. Other key features include: 1. A 14-chapter World of Plastics Reviews; 2. A list of 3,500 useful abbreviations; 3. Conversions (alphabetical list of units, temperature conversions, SI prefixes, units in use with SI, and recommended pronunciation); 4. Worldwide industry associations; 5. World of plastics industry events; 6. Government publications and groups; 7. Trade magazines and publications; 8. Web sites on plastics; 9. References; and 10. A comprehensive index.
($499.00)

Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
Publisher: Thomson Gale | ISBN: 078765759X | edition 2002 | PDF | 1286 pages | 10,2 mb
This work is designed for the layperson who wants background information about legal issues and procedures that affect our everyday lives. It is not a dictionary, although it includes a glossary, and it is not a do-it-yourself legal guide. Approximately 200 articles provide historical information, brief descriptions of relevant federal laws and regulations, variations in state and some local laws, directions to print and electronic sources of additional information, and contact details for potentially useful national and state organizations and agencies.
The articles are arranged in alphabetical order within broad categories, such as "Attorneys," "Consumer Issues," "Education," "Immigration," "Real Estate," and "Taxes." Some sections are surprisingly brief, while others are rather comprehensive. First Amendment Law merits only 3 pages, while Healthcare gets 70 and Internet gets 60. There is some unevenness in writing and editing. The article on international travel, for example, has several grammatical errors and still shows $400 as the maximum value of foreign-acquired goods to bring back duty-free. Otherwise, most of the information provided seems to be useful, and the editor offers the caveat to verify current status of laws and regulations and Web addresses.

David G. Fisher, Richard R. Erickson "The Solar System, 3 vol set"
Salem Press | English | 2009-07-10 | ISBN: 1587655306 | 1056 pages | PDF | 15,5 MB