New Reference E-Books and Databases

Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
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Second edition (2008) by Timothy Darvill contains 4,000 entries covering "the essential vocabulary for everyday archaeological work in the English language," including principles, theories, techniques, artefacts, materials, people, places, monuments, equipment, and descriptive terms. Focuses on Europe, the Old World, and the Americas.
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Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
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The 2008 edition contains over 5,000 entries covering "the vocabulary used in banking, money markets, foreign exchanges, public and government finance, and private investment and borrowing, and much more."
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Oxford University Press / Oxford Reference Online.
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Second edition (2008) contains 4,000 entries offering respected advice on current use of the English language.
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Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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Two-volume work (2008) "highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of psychology ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century.
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Greenwood.
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2008 volume examines the topic from two perspectives: recurrent themes, which reach across all media -- politics, censorship, race and religion, sex and morals; and individual industries in detail -- book publishing, newspapers and magazines, radio and television, and the Internet.
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Greenwood.
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2008 volume contains alphabetically-arranged entries covering the history of American poverty from historical, social, cultural, political, spiritual, and literary perspectives, from the colonial period to the 21st century.
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Greenwood.
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This 2007 volume comprises 24 signed "in-depth essays on the most famous ideas, artifacts, people and places of evolutionary biology -- dinosaurs, Neanderthals, Charles Darwin, peppered moths, carbon dating, the fossil record, and more.
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Greenwood.
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2007 volume contains 100 alphabetically-arranged entries, each one offering an extensive explanation of the composition, molecular formula, and chemical properties of the compound, as well as a review of the relevant chemistry, history, and uses of the compound, with discussions of the origin of the compound's name, the discovery or first synthesis of the compound, production statistics, and uses of the compound.
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St. James / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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We now have access to Volume 96 in this series.
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Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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Three-volume guide (2006) covers "all facets of the gothic, including visual and performing arts, society and culture, themes and settings and much more."
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Greenwood / American Mosaic.
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Ever-growing full-text database on the "histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States," covering over 150 volumes of reference content, plus hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
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This 2008 volume by Adbullah Saeed is a "concise introduction to all aspects of the Qur'an -- history, understanding and interpretation," with coverage of both pre-modern and modern periods, timelines, and a glossary.
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Routledge / NetLibrary.
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2008 volume arranges "frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical," encouraging students to link characters according to their phonetic.
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Routledge / NetLibrary.
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This 2007 volume contains alphabetically-arranged entries by cultural historian Sander Gilman on concepts, issues, and personalities associated with the history of diets and dieting.
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Greenwood.
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Two-volume set (2008) provides regional and state-by-state discussions of folk songs about the lives and times of each state. "For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context."
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Blackwell / NetLibrary.
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Philip Swanson's 2004 volume "presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts... Combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts.
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Cambridge University Press.
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Ongoing series is "the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language."
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Cambridge University Press.
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This six-volume set is "the first major collaborative synthesis to present the current state of knowledge of Japanese history for the English-reading world."
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Greenwood.
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Two-volume set (2008) offers alphabetically-arranged signed essays on cultural aspects of parts of the human body -- "how the parts are understood, what they mean to disparate societies, how they are managed, treated, and transformed, and how they are depicted and represented."
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