Ocean State Libraries

"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the...

Indexes 75,000 poems contained in 379 anthologies by title, first line, author, and subject, with last line indexing for ten thousand of the most frequently anthologized poems, and includes listings of thirty recommended, and ten highly recommended collections.

A two volume set that provides an author, subject, title, and illustrator index to the material found in fifty-one periodicals that were published from 1890 through 1899.

"The editors have taken on the task of identifying every woman and group of women mentioned in the Bible, whether named or unnamed, well known or heretofore not known at all. The result is more than eight hundred articles that examine the numerous women who have often been obscured by the androcentric nature of the biblical record and by centuries of translation and interpretation that have paid little or no attention to them."--Jacket.