Comprehensive Works

These comprehensive works cover a single broad topic thoroughly. Unlike full reference works, they are not comprised of small entries that can be read in any order.

CLASSICS AND RELIGION

• The Bible As It Was--Kugel
  
• The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge--Brunschwig
  
• A Guide to Greek Thought: Major Figures and Trends--Brunschwig
  
• A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium--Ariès
  

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

• The Birder's Bug Book--Waldbauer
  
• For Love of Insects--Eisner
  
• The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World--Majno
• A History of Chemistry--Bensaude-Vincent
  
• A History of Molecular Biology--Morange
  
• Ivory Diptych Sundials, 1570-1750--Lloyd
  
• The Mental Health Practitioner and the Law: A Comprehensive Handbook--Lifson
  
• New England Natives: A Celebration of People and Trees--Connor
  
• A Reunion of Trees: The Discovery of Exotic Plants and Their Introduction into North American and European Landscapes--Spongberg
  
• The Romantic Generation--Rosen
  
• Sociobiology--Wilson
  
• This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World--Mayr
  
• Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages--Grmek
  
• What Good Are Bugs?: Insects in the Web of Life--Waldbauer
  

MUSIC, ART, AND LITERATURE

• The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch--Kirker
  
• The Art of Ancient Egypt--Robins
  
• David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum--Mongan
  
• The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725--Cummings
  
• A History of English Literature--Fowler
  
• On the History of Film Style--Bordwell
  
• How to Do Biography--Hamilton
• The Image of the Black in Western Art: 4 Volumes--Bugner
• A Sor Juana Anthology--Trueblood
  
• Wagner Handbook--Muller
  

HISTORY AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Children and Youth in America: 3 Volumes--Bremner
  
• China: a New History--Fairbank
  
• Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves--Berlin
  
• Germany: A New History--Schulze
  
• A History of the Arab Peoples--Hourani
  
• A History of the Family: 2 Volumes--Burguiere
  
• A History of the Jewish People--Ben-Sasson
  
• A History of Private Life: 5 Volumes--Ariès
  
• A History of Twentieth-Century Russia--Service
  
• A History of Women in the West: 5 Volumes--Duby and Perrot
  
• A History of the World In The Twentieth Century: 2 Volumes--Grenville
  
• A History of Young People in the West: 2 Volumes--Levi
  
• Homosexuality and Civilization--Crompton
  
• London: A Social History--Porter
  
• The Making of Modern Japan--Jansen
  
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America--Berlin
  
• A New History of Korea--Lee
  
• The Roman Empire--Wells
• Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917--Hosking