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Genre/Form: | handbooks manuals (instructional materials) Handbooks and manuals Guides et manuels Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis D Rubin, Jr.; Jerry Leath Mills |
ISBN: | 080711992X 9780807119921 |
OCLC Number: | 32589682 |
Notes: | Designed to enable authors, editors & readers of all varieties & kinds to look up information about numerous things, whether animal, human, or mechanical, contemporary or timeless, vital or recondite & etc. |
Description: | xiv, 1041 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Preface and Apologia: Why This Particular Reference Book? -- I. Travel and Transportation -- II. History and Politics -- III. Architecture -- IV. Painting and Sculpture -- V. Music, Classical and Popular -- VI. Literature and Language -- VII. Drama and Theater -- VIII. Radio, Television, and Film -- IX. Religion, Folklore, and Legend -- X. Native Americans -- XI. Business and Finance -- XII. The Animal Kingdom -- XIII. Science and the Natural World -- XIV. Psychoanalysis -- XV. Law and Laws -- XVI. Philosophy -- XVII. Gastronomy -- XVIII. Sports -- XIX. Reference. |
Responsibility: | edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., in association with Jerry Leath Mills. |
Abstract:
Louis D. Rubin, Jr, has drawn on his years of accumulated wisdom, as well as the advice of some fifty prominent writers from various fields, to put together in a single volume a vast array of information. Enhanced by Rubin's graceful and witty prose, A Writer's Companion will merit a place on the desk of every serious wordsmith.
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