New Reference E-Books and Databases

Springer / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
2008 volume contains over 500 alphabetically-arranged entries, providing quick access to the fundamental tools of statistical methodology and biographies of famous statisticians. Include definitions, history, mathematical details, limitations, examples, references, and further readings.
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Elsevier / ScienceDirect.
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Edited by Marshall Haith and Janette Benson, this three-volume set (2008) "provides a comprehensive entry point into all of the existing literature on child development from the fields of psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and sociology."
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Facts on File / NetLibrary.
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Volume (2007) contains a concise narrative history, chronology, and an A-to-Z encyclopedia covering significant people, places, events, and issues in Spanish and Portuguese history, culture, and literature.
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Algora / NetLibrary.
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Intended to become an annual publication, this volume (2007) presents cross-national data in four sections: (1) Quality of Life, (2) Balance of Power, (3) Developed Market Economies since 1960, and (4) Economic History since 1500.
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Sage.
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Two-volume set (2007) contains more than 600 signed entries on such topics as Aggression, Attitudes, Prejudice, Values, and Self.
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Sage.
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Edited by Paul Robbins, this 2007 work contains about 1,200 signed entries within an interdisciplinary approach to the interactions between people and the natural environment.
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Sage.
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Three-volume set (2008) offers nearly 600 signed entries on racial and ethnic groups, issues of inequality, historical perspectives, statistics, and more.
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St. James / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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Updated with new volume (92).
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Greenwood.
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This 2004 volume opens with discussion of "social safety net" and the economic health of various nations and their definition of poverty. Other chapters cover social security, unemployment insurance and workers compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, the welfare system in the United States and other countries, and more. Includes 300 tables, graphs, and charts.
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Greenwood.
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2007 two-volume set (in one e-book) contains 600 terms which "identify and explain the history and suffering of ethnic and religious groups experiencing genocide throughout the world."
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Praeger / Greenwood.
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Two-volume set (2007), containing about 100 essays on the "intersection of gender and education," is presented in two separate e-books.
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Sage.
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This 2008 two-volume set contains over 450 signed entries in such topic areas as presidential, state, and local elections, ballot issues, polls and public opinion, the mass media, and much more.
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U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.   Also in the library collection in printed form.
"First comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920's."
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Greenwood.
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2007 volume "offers a comprehensive guide to various aspects and wide ranging issues associated with Title IX and sports."

Greenwood.
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Two-volume set (2007), edited by Kimball King, contains 45 signed scholarly essays on eras, national histories, theatrical movements, influential styles, and more.
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Greenwood.
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2007 sourcebook "aims to enhance our understanding of the Islamist phenomenon by presenting some forty documents, written by Islamists themselves, which shed light on the origins, goals, and practices of Islamic-focused groups and movements throughout the Muslim world.
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Greenwood.
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Signed literary biographies of about 30 "major contributors to Arthurian fiction," from Gildas and Bede, through the Gawain poet, Chaucer, Malory, Dryden, Arnold, Twain, Walker Percy, Margaret Atwood, and others.
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Greenwood.
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Edited by Jocelyne Cesari, this two-volume set contains (in Volume 1) an A-to-Z arrangement of signed articles on American Muslim life and (in Volume 2) a separate collection of primary source materials.
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ABC-Clio.
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This 2007 volume contains nearly 200 signed entries on American material culture -- "objects, images, spaces technology, production, and consumption, and what it reveals about historical and contemporary life in the United States."
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Greenwood.
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Begins with an introductory essay on the history of early American nature writing and then provides signed, alphabetically-arranged entries on 52 writers, including Agassiz, Audubon, Emerson, Thoreau, the Bartrams, Meriwether Lewis, and Charles Wesley Powell.
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Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
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Third edition (2008), written by Chris Baldick, contains about 1,200 entries covering "everything from the ancient "dithyramb" to the contemporary "dub poetry," from the popular "bodice-ripper" to the aristocratic "masque," and from the "social realism" of Stalin's era to the "magic realism" of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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