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This expansive set provides an in-depth guide to more than 100 of the world's core industrial enterprises, from accounting services through manufacturing industries through video game design and much more. Both students and those seeking reinvention will want to refer to these overviews.

Profiles of 770 prominent African Americans from a wide range of fields. Most of these people have never been covered in any Great Lives set before, and more than one-half of them are contemporary figures. The set is especially strong in personages from the fields of sports and entertainment.

Great Lives:
African Americans
Covers more than 770 people from colonial times to the present. Diverse perspectives on black American history.

Great Lives:
Incredibly Wealthy
A fascinating perspective on world history from economic and sociological, as well as biographical, perspectives.

Great Lives
Jewish Americans
Covers 654 individuals from colonial times through the present, offering an insightful perspective on Jewish history.

$Mathematics & Society$

Mathematics is at the root of modern civilization, from designing computers to driving a car. This set explores the math behind our daily lives in sociological, economic, and historical perspectives.

Again in 2011, Salem is hosting the Library Blog Awards. Much expanded. More Judges! More categories! And Everyone Votes! Read more by clicking Awards.

A great number of Salem's reference titles are now available in eBook form. For more information, click eBooks.

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Best Reference Sources of 2010 Library Journal has awarded The Forties in America this 2010 honor as being among the best of the year.