Covering over 1500 singers from the birth of opera to the present day.

This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and genealogies, it contains a wealth of information on the rulers of Britain, including their policies, personalities, key dates, and legacies. Feature articles throughout the guide provide in-depth information on key royal topics, including Coronations, Regalia, the Tower of London, and - new to this edition - Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral.

Unique personnel contact database of the institutional leadership of the United States. Integrating our 14 Yellow Book directories, The Leadership Library® enables subscribers to reach 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.

Biographical information on all Nobel Prize-winners.

Focusing exclusively on real people, this is a dictionary of ancient biography, covering Greek and Roman history and politics, literature, philosophy, science, and art. Shorter entries provide lucid factual accounts, while the longer entries are short essays covering major historical and cultural themes in antiquity, centred round individuals as varied as Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, Alexander the Great, and Augustus.

From Albert Einstein to the Marx Brothers, this authoritative reference book provides biographies of men and women from different countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action of the twentieth century.

A directory of leaders, perpetrators, financiers, defendants, detainees, persons of interest, conspirators, aliases, and others, from 1950-2008.