Reference works

If you are looking for the definitive short guide to the theory and practice of health promotion, then you need look no further.

In the Dictionary of Physics , central ideas and concepts are carefully introduced and explained.

This accessible reference profiles the vitamins and minerals most important to human health, presenting information in an easy-to-use format and summarizing the findings of key research studies.

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This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union.

This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaiis pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme.

In pre-industrial societies, people moved from childhood to adulthood directly, getting married and going to work early in life.

Based on 40 years of experience, author, Raymond Lemley, provokes thinking in this guide that addresses the ground level, mundane issues that confound principals daily.

A comprehensive look at the entirety of Native American history, focusing particularly on native peoples within the geographic boundaries of the United States.

Michael Novak's work is challenging.

The leading textbook on sentencing, and the only one to integrate theory and empirical research with legislation, guidelines and case law.

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime?

In the United States there have been brilliant examples of anti-racist struggle-black soldiers in the Civil War, coal miners of Alabama, and especially the anti-racist working-class struggles led by the Communist Party.

Venetian music print culture of the mid-sixteenth century is presented here through a study of the Scotto press, one of the foremost dynastic music publishers of the Renaissance.

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources.

Kids conquer the world of sewing and crafting!

This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent.

The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD.

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics.

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern:

• Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung
• die Gerichtsbarkeit
• Interessenverbände und andere Organisationen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Kunst usw.

This condensed paperback encyclopedia documents the enduring cultural impact and musical legacy of the Beatles, providing readers with a one-stop resource to the Fab Four's compelling story and breadth of achievements.

A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces students to the process and techniques for researching and writing about music.

A paperback edition for the student market, this standard work of reference has been a bestseller for over 70 years.

The Ismaili Muslims, who belong to the Shia branch of Islam, live in over 25 different countries around the world, mainly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Building Contract Dictionary provides a succinct, but authoritative reference to words, phrases and terms encountered in, and in connection with, building contracts.

This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law.

Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was a pioneering writer in the genre of fantasy literature and the author of such celebrated works as The Book of Wonder (1912) and The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924).

For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the The "e;Advertising Age"e; Encyclopedia of Advertising website.

In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result.

From demons to fallen angels, folk monsters to possession and exorcism, Satanic pacts to black masses, humans have tried to define and combat evil throughout the centuries.

This collection of archival source material chronicles British environmental politics between 1789 and 1914.

Im sogenannten "Schulenstreit" zwischen der "modernen" Strafrechtsschule um Franz v.

What is gender?

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems.

The work of entomologists, the people who study insects is extremely diverse due to the high abundance, species richness, and ecological and behavioral characteristics of insects.

Unlike the standard nature guides that explain how to recognize common animals,Naturestresses the web of interrelationships that link the regional flora and fauna.

Of the many ancient civilizations we are aware of, few are smaller than the ancient Kingdom of Israel.

This book documents the devastating effects of genocide in the world's most destructive human environments since the end of World War II and explores why such events still occur.

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The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations contains over 8,000 quotations from 1914 to the present.

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment.

Lightweight and small enough to fit in your pocket or tucked into your backpack, Survive Snow Country is the must-have item to keep with you in case you find yourself in a snowy survival situation.

As the mission statements of libraries across the nation change to reflect the realities of post-liberal America and its emphasis on economic values, librarians have had to pick up their long-standing paradigm and move it in an endless shuffle from knowledge stewardship, to information broker, to entertainment director.

Building Law Encyclopaedia is a concise and authoritative reference, providing information in reasonable depth on an extensive number of legal terms, principles, phrases and issues that are commonly encountered in the construction industry.

Effective treatment for HIV and AIDS came in 1996.

A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide-the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage, ever recorded in Britain and IrelandA bestselling guide since it was first published, Britain's Birds has quickly established itself as the go-to photographic identification guide to the birds of Great Britain and Ireland-the most comprehensive, up-to-date, practical and user-friendly book of its kind.

Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals such as the British Medical Journal.