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• Alan Alda's given name was Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo?
• Joan Juliet Buck was a book reviewer and assistant fashion editor for Glamour?
• Neil Gaiman is a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund?
• Joyce Carol Oates had an opera based on Black Water developed by the American Music Festival Theatre in Philadelphia?

Learn interesting facts and so much more about authors! Over 3,700 new authors were added to the Contemporary Authors e-resource, joining the more than 160,000 already included! This e-resource includes biographical and bibliographical information on novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, print and broadcast journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists, scriptwriters, and screenwriters. For each author entry, you may find content for the following topics available:

• Personal Information
• Career Information
• Awards
• Writings
• Media Adaptions
• A Descriptive Essay about the Author
• Further Readings

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Science Reference eBook Collection
Explore science from over 230 full-text eBooks! This collection of reference titles covers a wide variety of topics such as animals, biology, climate change, computing, engineering, experiments, life science, nature, oceans, physical science, and weather.

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Perform research from hundreds of full-text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. View more than 280,000 high-quality science images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic, and the Nature Picture Library. 

Environmental Studies 
This resource includes over 690 full-text journals! Find news, background information, video, commentaries, primary source documents, and statistics in relevant topic areas such as energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, and economic development. 

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Topics covered in this resource include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more!

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