New Reference E-Books and Databases

Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Edited by Robert L. Heath, this two-volume set (2004) contains signed entries which explore "the evolution of the Public Relation field, with examples from history describing events, changing practices, and the key figures who developed and expanded the profession."

Academic Press / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subcription)
Four-volume set (2003) contains about 220 substantial signed entries which provide international "perspective and context about content, delivery systems, and their myriad relationships." Includes country analyses.

Nolo / NetLibrary.
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The subtitle of this 2007 work (7th edition) explains its function: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions. "Written by Nolo's expert team of attorneys, the book provides concise, plain-English answers to hundreds of the most frequently- asked legal questions," including credit and debt, workplace rights, divorce, landlord-tenant laws, and more.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Avaiilable online.   (W&L subscription)
2007 volume includes signed entries on the "traditional" research areas, such as battered women, child abuse, and dating violence, as well as less well-studied areas, such as military families and cross-cultural perspectives.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Second edition (2007) contains biographical and analytical entries on important figures in historiography, from Thucydides and Herodotus through Hobsbawm and Natalie Zemon Davis.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription).
Compiled by Kecia Ali and Oliver Leaman, this 2007 volume provides explorations of a couple dozen key issues in Islamic religion and culture. Examples include Hadith, Revelation, Islamophobia, Mercy, etc.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription).
This 2007 volume, edited by Stephen L. Vaughn, "explores in depth those journalists and their organizations who have observed and recorded the events of American history," with special attention to developments since 1945 and the end of World War II.

Greenwood / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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Signed entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers, including a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works.