Bibliographies & Indexes

Geriatric Care is a compilation of carefully chosen topics pertaining to Clinical Geriatrics and Gerontology. The chapters have been written by authors with wide ranging experience in treating the elderly, especially in India. This approach has been rendered necessary by the fact that the problems o... More

A hilarious and offbeat collection of the wildest and weirdest book titles, subtitles, and author names ever compiled. This unique and fun collection includes color illustrations of some of the most extraordinary book jackets ever produced as well as some of the most unusual book descriptions ever p... More

‘I was then about seven or eight. I had no useful role to play in this world; and that old palki, too, had been dismissed from all forms of useful employment . . .’ Hidden inside an ancient palanquin on a hot, lonely afternoon, a young boy sets off on an imaginary adventure. He encounters ga... More

Encyclopedia of World Writers: 19th and 20th Centuries covers the most important writers outside of the U.S., Britain, and Ireland in the last two centuries. This comprehensive one-volume guide contains insightful, A-to-Z entries on approximately 300 writers-primarily novelists, poets, dramatists, a... More

The present works covers the sociological investigation on different aspects of the Indic names-of-persons, from linguistic point of view. It includes the whole country except the seven Statesin the North-East. It is hoped that this book will be of use to sociologists, anthropologists and library sc... More

With a user-friendly A to Z layout, this volume contains 1,200 entries on the men and women who have influenced the course of Christian history. Founding fathers, monarchs, Popes, saints, philanthropists, heretics, theologians, and missionaries are profiled with detailed bibliographic information on... More

This illustrated and fully updated third edition is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature available in English, from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world with more than 280 new author entries, most of which are for living authors.... More

Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their authority. Even today, attempts by school boards, local governments, and religious fanatics to restrict our freedom to read ... More

Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their authority. Even today, attempts by school boards, local governments, and religious fanatics to restrict our freedom to read ... More

For over a hundred years, "The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies" has been the preeminent index for answers to questions about the world of poetry, identifying the author of a poem or the anthologies in which it can be found when only a title, first line, or last line is known. This ... More

"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers. More than the repetition of familiar names and ideas that most anthologies seem to be about, here was the declaration of a collective, intelligent, and thoroughly visionary wor... More

"Social Work Practice" synthesizes the latest theories and research findings in social work and related fields and demonstrates how this information is used in working with clients. Because the interview is the medium in which much of social work practice takes place, learning the processes and skil... More

This new edition of a reference for librarians is expanded by some 1,100 entries, giving definitions of some 9,600 terms, abbreviations, and acronyms relating to libraries, books, information management, and information technology. Details given range from helpful definitions of bookbinding terms to... More