Re: countries/ biographies

[Jeanne Claridge <jclaridge@ACHM.K12.WI.US>]

          countries/biographies 2
    Date:
          Fri, 04 May 2001 13:17:24 -0600
   From:
          Jeanne Claridge <jclaridge@achm.k12.wi.us>
      To:
          cathytea@adelphia.net




Have you tried "Culturgrams" from World Almanac Publishing?

"Lands and Peoples" from
Lands and peoples. -- New York : Grolier, 1991.
    6 v. : illus. (part col.) ; 27 cm.
    v. 1. Africa.--v. 2. Asia. Australia. New Zealand. Oceania.--v. 3-4.

Europe.--v. 5. North America.--v. 6. South and Central America.--v. 7.
Special edition: upheaval in Europe.
    ISBN 0717280004
    1. Geography.


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We use collective biographies very much for reports.
REF 920 LAT Latino Americans
REF 920 HER Heroes and pioneers
REF 509.2 S Scientists and inventors
REF 361.709 Humanitarians and reformers
REF 920 VIL Villains and outlaws
REF 920 ATH Athletes and coaches of winter

Villains and outlaws. -- NY : Macmillan Library References, 1998.
    xi, 361p., photos, drawings, charts.
    Contains bibliographic references and index.  117 alphabetical
articles profile the lives of a variety of unsavory characters from
Attila the Hun and the Dalton Gang to Joseph Stalin and Pancho Villa.
Describe the life and times of insane Roman rulers, old-world pirates,
bandits from the American West, prohibition-era gangsters, presidential
assassins, legendary murderers, modern war criminals, and much more.
    ISBN 0028650581
    1. Criminals--Encyclopedias. 2. Outlaws--Biography.

Veglahn, Nancy.
    Women scientists / Nancy J. Veglahn. -- New York : Facts on File,
1991.
    x, 134 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Profiles the lives and achievements of ten American women
scientists, including Annie Jump Cannon, Margaret Mead, and Rachel
Carson.
    ISBN 0816024820
    1. Science--United States--History--Juvenile literature. 2. Women in

science--United States--History--Juvenile literature. 3. Women
scientists--United States--Juvenile literature. 4. Scientists. 5. Women
scientists.


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