Dictionary of World Biography

  • Dictionary of World Biography: Eighth edition
    Dictionary of World Biography: Eighth edition
    By Barry Jones

    Bolton, T., Cnut the Great. 2017. Close, 'Chuck' (Charles Thomas) (1940– ). American painter and photographer, born in Washington State. Working in a variety of forms, including collage, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, finger paintings ...

  • Dictionary of World Biography: Sixth edition
    Dictionary of World Biography: Sixth edition
    By Barry Jones

    He recognised that the physician's task was to assist nature in its constant efforts to eliminate morbid matter or render it harmless. Thus his task was to study the disease in relation to the particular patient.

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill

    A revision and reordering, with new entries added, of the material in the thirty vols, comprising the various subsets designated "series" published under the collective title: Great lives from history, 1987-1995.

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill, Steve Seddon, Alison Aves

    Concise biographical information on outstanding people from the ancient world to current times, providing a look at their early life, life's work, and summary of achievements; v.

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank N. Magill

    A revision and reordering, with new entries added, of the material in the thirty vols. comprising the various subsets designated "series" published under the collective title : Great lives from...

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill

    ... California John M.Lawrence Faulkner University, Alabama Daniel B.Levine University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Leon ... New Jersey Murray C.McClellan Emory University, Georgia C.Thomas McCullough Centre College, Kentucky Michelle ...

  • Dictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition
    Dictionary of World Biography: Fourth edition
    By Barry Jones

    Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890–1954). English Conservative politician. A Member of Parliament 1924–29, 1931–45, he was Secretary of State for War 1935–37, First Lord of the Admiralty 1937–38 (resigning as a protest ...

  • Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z
    Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z
    By Frank Northen Magill, Alison Aves, Christina J. Moose

    Al' though Margaret Chase Smith was touted as a potential candidate for vice president in 1964, she earned the distinction that year of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major US. political party.

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill, Alison Aves, Christina J. Moose

    This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements.

  • Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages
    Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages
    By Frank Northen Magill, Alison Aves

    Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who.

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill

    Concise biographical information on outstanding people from the ancient world to current times, providing a look at their early life, life's work, and summary of achievements; v. I: The ancient...

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill, Alison Aves, Christina J. Moose

    Concise biographical information on outstanding people from the ancient world to current times, providing a look at their early life, life's work, and summary of achievements; v. I: The ancient...

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill

    Concise biographical information on outstanding people from the ancient world to current times, providing a look at their early life, life's work, and summary of achievements; v. I: The ancient...

  • Dictionary of World Biography: Fifth edition
    Dictionary of World Biography: Fifth edition
    By Barry Jones

    1937; Waterhouse, M., Edwardian Requiem: a Life of Sir Edward Grey. 2013. Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843–1907). Norwegian composer, born in Bergen. Leader of a new national school, he studied in Leipzig from 1858, and was influenced by ...

  • Dictionary of World Biography: Third edition
    Dictionary of World Biography: Third edition
    By Barry Jones

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  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Barry Jones

    "This is an extended version of experiences with the Dictionary of World Biography which appeared in my autobiography, A Thinking Reed (2006)."--Introduction.

  • Dictionary of World Biography: Ninth edition
    Dictionary of World Biography: Ninth edition
    By Barry Jones

    Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995.

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Barry O. Jones

    Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995.

  • Dictionary of World Biography
    Dictionary of World Biography
    By Frank Northen Magill, Christina J. Moose

    I: The ancient world; v. II: The middle ages; v. III: The Renaissance; v. IV: The 17th & 18 Centuries.

  • Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
    Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
    By Frank N. Magill

    Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century