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Notable Sports Figures provides narrative biographical profiles of more than 600 individuals who have made significant contributions to their sport and to society. It covers sports figures from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries who represent a wide variety of sports and countries. Lesser-known sports such as cricket, equestrian, and snowboarding are featured alongside sports like baseball, basketball, and football. Notable Sports Figures includes not only athletes, but also coaches, team executives, and media figures such as sportscasters and writers.

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Notable Sports Figures provides narrative biographical profiles of more than 600 individuals who have made significant contributions to their sport and to society. It covers sports figures from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries who represent a wide variety of sports and countries. Lesser-known sports such as cricket, equestrian, and snowboarding are featured alongside sports like baseball, basketball, and football. Notable Sports Figures includes not only athletes, but also coaches, team executives, and media figures such as sportscasters and writers.

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Graphic Novelists contains biographical profiles of 75 notable people involved in the creation of graphic novels, a diverse and rapidly changing field. They represent the diversity of style, content, and intended audience of one of the most popular literary forms of the early twenty-first century.

Краткое описание: Graphic Novelists contains biographical profiles of 75 notable people involved in the creation of graphic novels, a diverse and rapidly changing field. They represent the diversity of style, content, and intended audience of one of the most popular literary forms of the early twenty-first century.

Краткое описание: Graphic Novelists contains biographical profiles of 75 notable people involved in the creation of graphic novels, a diverse and rapidly changing field. They represent the diversity of style, content, and intended audience of one of the most popular literary forms of the early twenty-first century.

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This encyclopedia was designed as a step in the direction of filling this information gap. In it, the reader will find entries on the lives of more than three hundred contemporary individuals from modern North Africa and the Middle East, including Afghanistan, who are making their marks on all walks of life. A central purpose of this work is to show this broad region as a vibrant, diverse part of the globe, full of people doing things with their lives that are not all that different from what Westerners do with theirs.

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This encyclopedia was designed as a step in the direction of filling this information gap. In it, the reader will find entries on the lives of more than three hundred contemporary individuals from modern North Africa and the Middle East, including Afghanistan, who are making their marks on all walks of life. A central purpose of this work is to show this broad region as a vibrant, diverse part of the globe, full of people doing things with their lives that are not all that different from what Westerners do with theirs.

Краткое описание: The Writers Directory lists over 21,049 writers - writing under 22,634 names - from all countries of the world who have had at least one work published in English. The main section of the Directory lists approximately 20,960 living writers of fiction and non-fiction who have published at least one full-length work in English. Listees run the gamut from the best-known, best selling authors of fiction and the most prominent non-fiction writers to those writers just embarking on their literary careers. Included in this section are nearly 950 writers whose listings have not appeared in a previous edition of The Writers Directory.