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Background Notes
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of countries around the world. (Published irregularly, U. S. Department of State)
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Basic Probability Theory for Biomedical Engineers
A 50- to 100-page document that introduces an important topic in engineering or computer science. (Synthesis Digital Library, Morgan and Claypool)
Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges From Ancient Times to the Present
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Bible in English
The full text of 21 editions of the Bible written in English, covering a millenium of the language's history from the Tenth through the Twentieth Centuries. (ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey)
Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova
Offers a large number of full-text works of every type, not only
literature.
Bilingual Dictionaries - Oxford Reference Collection
Searches simultaneously all of the bilingual dictionaries in Oxford Reference Online. There are dictionaries to and from English with French, Spanish, German, Italian, Irish, Welsh, and Latin.
Bilingual Education: A Reference Handbook
(2002, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook
(1998, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Profiles contemporary leaders, as well as notable individuals associated with business, law, science, social issues, sports, entertainment, literature, and the arts. (2 v., 2008, Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Biography Reference Bank
Biographical information on over half a million people from around the world, with articles from such biographical reference books as Current Biography and the World Author Series, as well as magazine citations from Biography Index Database after 1984. Some third party publications are included, such as a subset of the biographies from Oxford's American National Biography. (updated daily, Wilson Web)
Biography Resource Center
Biographical articles on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas from multiple Gale reference publications, such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, and Directory of American Scholars. (Updated continuously, Gale)
Bioinstrumentation
A 50- to 100-page document that introduces an important topic in engineering or computer science. (Synthesis Digital Library, Morgan and Claypool)
Biological Sciences - Oxford Reference Collection
Searches simultaneously in several encyclopedias and dictionaries on biology published by Oxford University Press. (Oxford Reference Online)
Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking
A 50- to 100-page document that introduces an important topic in engineering or computer science. (Synthesis Digital Library, Morgan and Claypool)
BioNanotechnology
A 50- to 100-page document that introduces an important topic in engineering or computer science. (Synthesis Digital Library, Morgan and Claypool)
Birds of North America Online
Comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds, including image, video, and audio galleries for many of the 716 described species. (Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology)
Black Drama 1850 to the Present
Contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with related information on productions, theaters, and production companies. (Alexander Street Press)
Black Literature Criticism
Covers African American, Caribbean, and African writers who produce works in English. For each author it gives a biography, list of principal works, excerpted criticism, and an annotated further-reading list. (2nd ed., 3 v., 2008, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Black Short Fiction and Folklore
A full-text collection of short stories, fables, and folklore from African, African-American, and Caribbean authors. (Alexander Street Press)
Black Thought and Culture: African-Americans to 1975
Contains the non-fiction published works (monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews) of leading African Americans from colonial times to the present. (Alexander Street Press)
Blind Justice: Miscarriages of Justice in Twentieth-Century Britain?
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Boyhood in America: An Encyclopedia
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Brain-Machine Interface Engineering
A 50- to 100-page document that introduces an important topic in engineering or computer science. (Synthesis Digital Library, Morgan and Claypool)
Brazil: A Global Studies Handbook
(2008, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
(2001, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Budget of the United States Government
The budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications. (FY2008, GPO Access)
Burger Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy
(2000, ABC-CLIO, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Business Plans Handbook, Vol. 13
Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans. This is only one volume of a series. Volumes 1-9 are in
King Reference.
(2008, Gale Virtual Reference Library)