| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 546 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1099-7326". |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mahmoud Abbas -- Edward Abbey -- Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- Elsie Allen -- Sarah Allen -- Nestor Almendros -- Angeles Alvarino -- Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya -- Queen Anne of Cleves, Consort of King Henry VIII -- Eddie Arcaro -- Martina Arroyo -- Red Auerbach -- Ban Ki-Moon -- Mary Bancroft -- Frederic Baraga -- Agatha Barbara -- Mrs. Barbauld -- James Barry -- Baruj Benacerraf -- Elmer Bernstein -- Art Blakey -- Charles Blondin -- Kjell Magne Bondevik -- Bridget of Sweden -- Art Buchwald -- Jack Buck -- Mary Bunting-Smith -- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks -- Paul Cadmus -- Santiago Calatrava -- Felipe Calderon -- Bebe Moore Campbell -- June Carter Cash -- Bonnie Cashin -- Queen Catharine Parr, Consort of King Henry VIII -- Susie Sumner Revels Cayton -- Jackie Chan -- Elaine Chao -- Wendell Chino -- Anne Clifford -- Rosemary Clooney -- Jean Michel Cousteau -- Paul J. Crutzen -- Thomas De Quincey -- John Denver -- Gerard Depardieu -- Gerald M. Edelman -- Althea Maria Brown Edmiston -- Roger A. Enrico -- Richard R. Ernst -- Oriana Fallaci -- Mimi Farina -- Eileen Farrell -- |
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Louise Farrenc -- Guy Fawkes -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Anne Finch -- Shulamith Firestone -- Myron Floren -- Elizabeth Denison Forth -- Tetsuya Fujita -- Serge Gainsbourg -- Martha Gellhorn -- Stan Getz -- Carlos Ghosn -- Sabiha Gokcen -- Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich -- Mal Goode -- Christine Granville -- Zaha Hadid -- Gunther Von Hagens -- Stephen Harper -- Laura S. Haviland -- Eliza Haywood -- Phoebe Apperson Hearst -- Heloise -- Myra Hess -- William Hutt -- Elizabeth Inchbald -- Steve Irwin -- B. K. S. Iyengar -- Jane Jacobs -- Victor Jara -- Luis Jimenez -- Antonio Carlos Jobim -- William Jones -- Andrea Jung -- Joseph Kabila -- Gerome Kamrowski -- Florynce Kennedy -- Kirk Kerkorian -- Ken Kesey -- A. Q. Khan -- Dong Kingman -- Athanasius Kircher -- Klaus Von Klitzing -- Walter Kohn -- Harold Walter Kroto -- John Agyekum Kufuor -- Aleksander Kwasniewski -- Ricardo Lagos -- Hedy Lamarr -- Dick Lane -- Alicia De Larrocha -- Shelly Lazarus -- Tanaquil LeClercq -- Lee Jong-Wook -- Stanislaw Lem -- William Arthur Lewis -- Alan Lomax -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -- Peter Maas -- Elizabeth Maconchy -- Mako -- Alice Marriott -- |
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Marianne Martinez -- Deepa Mehta -- Georges Melies -- Adam Mickiewicz -- Muhammad Ali Pasha -- Anne Murray -- Arthur Murray -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal -- Indra K. Nooyi -- Michael Babatunde Olatunji -- Mark Oliphant -- Buck O'Neil -- Donny and Marie Osmond -- John Peel -- Grigory Perelman -- Molly Picon -- Anna Politkovskaya -- Martin Porres -- Jacques Prevert -- Mae Questel -- Queen of Madagascar Ranavalona I -- Shloyme Zanul Rappoport -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -- James Earl Ray -- Dennis Ritchie -- Edward W. Said -- Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-George -- Samoset -- Artur Schnabel -- Mary Seacole -- William Joseph Seymour -- William Sheppard -- Edward Soriano -- Walter Spies -- Rudolf Steiner -- John Summerson -- Louise Juliette Talma -- Emma Thompson -- Elizabeth Tilberis -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- Tokyo Rose -- P. L. Travers -- Michel Tremblay -- Sarah Trimmer -- Suzanne Valadon -- Wang Guangmei -- Dorothy West -- Opal Whiteley -- Narcissa Whitman -- Benjamin Lee Whorf -- Bert Williams -- Henry Clay Work -- Tammy Wynette -- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono -- Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi -- Dieter Zetsche -- Zhang Yimou -- Zinedine Zidane -- Slavoj Zizek. |
| Summary |
A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture. |
| Subject |
Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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World history.
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Celebrities -- Biography.
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Statesmen -- Biography.
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Scholars -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Ratiner, Tracie, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Encyclopedia of world biography. Volume 27, Supplement. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2007 9781414418926 |
| ISBN |
9781414429281 (electronic book) |
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1414429282 (electronic book) |
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9781414418926 |
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1414418922 |
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