Reference works

From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound.

Vietnam became part of French Indochina in 1887 and did not regain its independence again until after the Vietnam War.

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner.

This book brings together some of the world''s leading writers to engage with the most profound question in penology: why prison?

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment.

This book, first published in 1942, examines the economic necessities, defensive and offensive, basic and strategic, involved in waging war.

The ultimate, comprehensive guide to country-by-country statistics around the world.

The most significant thing about Guinea is its potential.

This timely encyclopedia presents an arsenal of evidence for evolution that goes beyond the typical textbook examples.

The new, second edition of this successful Handbook explores the growing and evolving field of Chinese media, offering a window through which to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communications within the contexts of globalisation and regionalisation.

Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present.

The world's bestselling cricket annual.

Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s.

Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works.

This book offers a scholarly introduction to comparative criminal justice.

Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population.

Why do certain people commit acts of crime?

This definitive book covers the operation, care, repair, and restoration of all kinds of wood windows, along with chapters on weather-stripping, repainting, and refinishing.

A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologistPaleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject to a cutting-edge science.

Though criminology took root in Russia in the early 1800s and has gone through various stages of maturation-paralleling developments of the discipline in Europe and North America over the last two centuries-its contributions and presence in the field is hardly noticeable in the English-speaking world.

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.

This book explores the production of Muslim youth identities, with respect to nation, religion and gender in Pakistan, Senegal, Nigeria and Lebanon.

The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama.

Maps, charts and related items present special problems to libraries, for example a less organised bibliographic control mechanism, more difficult means of acquisitions, and problems of storage and preservation.

Although Lipan Apache culture was studied by one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, many important questions remain.

This resource provides a single, concise reference containing terms and expressions used in the study, practice, and application of physical sciences.

This book explores the concept of punishment: its meaning and significance, not least to those subject to it; its social, political and emotional contexts; its role in the criminal justice system; and the difficulties of bringing punishment to an end.

Here is an essential introductory guide on all aspects of law librarianship written especially for non-law librarians, library school students, and beginning law librarians.

Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism in Kamden Hilliard's debut collection of poems, MissSettl.

In this elegantly written and illustrated book, bestselling author Susan Chernak McElroy has gathered the voices of the wind, weather, animals, and elements and transcribed the he truths they have to share.

Originally published 1967, this title reveals how the missionaries, so often misguided and short-sighted, were in fact pioneers of modernization, science and freedom.

The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

This first volume includes scientific sources that were foundational in the professionalization of science and in the development and dissemination of scientific thinking as it moved towards evolutionary thought, including emerging ideas in biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, natural theology, and geology.

Emma Lou Diemer--a composer who successfully combines a classicist's interest in form with a fresh, contemporary, harmonic vocabulary--has produced a diverse, sophisticated, and largely unheralded opus, including 350 works composed for orchestra, symphonic band, chamber ensemble, keyboard, chorus, voices, and solo and electronic instruments.

Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together nine essays on leading geographers and their work.

Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993.

How do I cook the perfect steak?

Das Händel-Jahrbuch 2024 enthält Beiträge von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA zur Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz 2023 in Halle (Saale).

This volume is the first of two volumes that address the most recent ten years (1997-2006) of focus group studies and research literature.

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies.

The yearning for historical justice - that is, for the redress of past wrongs - has become one of the defining features of our age.

This annotated bibliography, a volume in the Greenwood series, Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, provides access to the numerous writings, from the 1960s through the 1990s, on feminism and Christian tradition.

First published in 1982, The Life of John Berryman draws on extensive research in the USA and on an enormous collection of hitherto unpublished materials - journals, letters, stories and poetry -to build a biography that recounts in absorbing detail the public and private stages of John Berry man's career.

This book, first published in 1985, examines various aspects of the intellectual achievements of writers and artists in the Vichy period; a strong emphasis on the ambiguity of much of their work emerges from the research.

In Radical Reads, Joni Richards Bodart identified 101 young adult books that featured gritty, complex plots, focused on multidimensional characters, and tackled such difficult subjects as teenage pregnancy, dysfunctional families, gangs, prejudice, violence, drugs, or other provocative issues.

The first and only of its kind, this book is a straightforward listing of more than 25,000 trivia facts from 2,498 TV series aired between 1947 and 2019.