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Birds of the World

Provides detailed scientific information, with images and sound, 10,721 species of birds worldwide. Also contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings as well as recordings of bird songs and calls selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Black Drama - Third Edition

Publication coverage: mid-1800s - present

Black Drama, Third Edition contains the full text of more than 1.700 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Designed for teaching and learning about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.

Black Studies Center

Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books and much more.

Black Studies in Video

An award-winning collection that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the Black experience. The database contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Black Thought and Culture contains the full text of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writing by leading figures in African American life and culture.

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

A comprehensive guide to sociological concepts, topics and authors.

Bloomsbury Design Library

The history, theory and practice of crafts and design worldwide, from antiquity to the present.

Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method

A resource dedicated to historiography and the examination of historical theory and methods using a global approach.

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies

Interdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective.

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