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Greenwood.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This authoritative introduction (2008) includes a discussion of how children's folklore is defined, classifications of various types of children's folklore, a selection of examples and texts, scholars' views on children's folklore since the 19th century, and how children's folklore has become popular in popular culture.
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Greenwood.
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Three volume-set (2007) contains essays covering the history of clothing throughout the world from pre-historic times to 2006. Coverage is chronological and the above link takes you to Volume 1. Links to each volume:
Volume 1, Pre-History to 1500;
Volume 2, 1500 to 1800;
Volume 3, 1800 to the present.
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Blackwell / NetLibrary.
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This 2005 volume is reputed to be "the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures."
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Georgetown University Press / NetLibrary.
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Eighth edition (2008) "provides up-to-date descriptions and data about careers in the global workplace and how to find them—along with nearly 300 organization profiles."
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Cambridge University Press.
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Nine-volume set (still in publication) provides "the first complete chronological account of the development of Christianity in all its aspects -– theological, social, political, regional, global -- from the time of Christ to the present day."
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The Washington and Lee University Library now provides online access to the Adams Papers (Digital Edition), comprising John Adams’s complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers -- all 30 volumes of the Adams Papers that have so far appeared in print.
Current W&L students, faculty, and staff may use the database via this link, which is available in Annie and from several locations in our Web site.
ABC-Clio.
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Two-volume set (2007), edited by Yudit Greenberg, contains about 300 signed entries "covering notions of love that include emotions, actions, and relationships as expressed in world religions, philosophies, and cultures."
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Greenwood.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set (2007) contains chronologically-arranged accounts of about 35 trials of the past century, beginning with the Black Sox scandal (1919) and continuing to the 21st-century Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
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This page contains all entries posted to New Reference E-Books and Databases in November 2008. They are listed from oldest to newest.
October 2008 is the previous archive.
December 2008 is the next archive.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.