The 68th edition, reliably documenting the contemporary literary scene in German-speaking countries, records some 12,000 authors. Without expressing literary critical judgements, it presents since more than 130 years living authors who write in German, whatever their nationality or geographical location may be. Entries provide information on address, biographical data, membership in literary organizations and associations, literary awards as well...

Source Book For Research in Music Education, in this revised and greatly expanded second edition, is an invaluable guide to the researcher in navigating the vast proliferation of materials in music research. The editors emphasize English-language and recent sources, and also include essential materials in other languages. A reference tool containing varied information, this sourcebook will serve as a classroom text and as a resource for individual...

This volume gathers the harvest of recent doctoral dissertations on South Asia, principally from North America and Western Europe, but exclusive of theses from universities in South Asia itself. The yield-1305 dissertations based on research carried out during the early and middle nineteen-sixties and brought to completion between 1966 and 1970-is even greater than one would have guessed, eloquent testimony to the expansion of South Asian studies...

Many Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction? When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors better known, she expected to find just a few dozen. To her delight, she unearthed 473 writers who have produced over 674 books. These women describe not only their country and its inhabitants, but a remarkable variety of other subjects: from the story...

"Beloved author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers, and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4,600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings, and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, and this full biography identifies each of them separately, providing full publication information and a descriptive summary of contents, thoroughly...

This is a completely revised and updated third edition of a standard Canadian reference work that was last published twenty years ago. This new edition has over 7300 entries, with four separate indexes: author, title, English subject, and French subject. In addition, a short-title entry listing provides alternate access to the classified arrangement of the main body of work. Annotation for each entry has been broadened to include: number of entries,...