Encyclopedia

By Sana Loue, Martha Sajatovic

Designated a Reference Reviews best Ten Print Reference resource 2005

The Encyclopedia of Women's Health meets this problem by means of bringing jointly a magnificent array of specialists on subject matters from reproductive concerns to gastrointestinal health problems. This skilfully edited quantity, proficient by way of present well-being matters and health-care realities, deals readers useful details, historic points, and destiny instructions, all meticulously researched and comfortably awarded.
Key gains contain:

-Accessible A-to-Z assurance, together with AIDS, contraception, hormone alternative remedy, teenager being pregnant, sexual harassment, violence, physique photo, entry to future health care and extra.

-Entries spanning the scientific, mental, sociocultural, non secular, and felony arenas.

-Medical issues explored from either traditional and complementary views.

-Cross-cultural information illustrate matters as they observe to minority ladies, rural girls, the aged, and different underserved populations.

-Special chapters on disparities in women's wellbeing and fitness and wellbeing and fitness care.

-Historical evaluate of ladies in future health - as sufferers and as execs.

-Suggested readings and source lists.

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By DK Publishing

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Looking on the expertise throughout us-and then explaining the way it works, the How issues paintings Encyclopedia lifts the hood of a motor vehicle engine, will get inside of a television set, and discovers the facility of invisible microwaves. With close-ups, cutaways, and diagrams bringing the know-how to existence, and timelines illustrating the improvement of innovations, not easy interest quizzes and engaging proof, the How issues paintings Encyclopedia we could young ones fairly see and comprehend what's occurring inside of.

Slavery within the usa (2 quantity Set)

For 250 years, slavery used to be a part of the material of yankee lifestyles. The establishment had an incredible monetary influence and was once imperative to the wealth of the agrarian South. It had as nice an effect on American tradition, cementing racism and different attitudes that echo into the current. This encyclopedia is an formidable exam of all of the matters surrounding slavery: the origins, the excuses, the controversies, and the human drama.

These volumes symbolize the paintings of seventy five exclusive students from all over the world. Ten thematic essays current an intensive exam of slavery and slave tradition, together with an extraordinary remedy of slavery from the slave's perspective. 300 A-Z entries offer immediate entry to precise humans, matters, and occasions. this present day, slavery's immorality turns out visible. This encyclopedia presents the coed or basic reader with an in-depth clarification of the way the perform advanced and was once normalized, then anathematized and abolished.

By Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

The Encyclopedia of data technological know-how and know-how is the 1st paintings to map this ever-changing box. it's the such a lot complete, research-based encyclopedia such as contributions from over 900 famous researchers in over 50 nations. This five-volume encyclopedia contains greater than 550 articles highlighting present strategies, matters and rising applied sciences. those articles are greater via precise awareness that's paid to over 4,500 technical and managerial phrases. those phrases will each one have a 5-50 notice description that let the clients of this wide examine resource to benefit the language and terminology of the sector. furthermore, those volumes supply an intensive reference part with over 11,500 resources of data that may be accessed through students, scholars, and researchers within the box of knowledge technology and know-how.

By Bao Yang; Peng Wang; World Scientific (Firm)

The 1st set of the Encyclopedia, Thermal Packaging thoughts, makes a speciality of the know-how ''building blocks'' used to gather an entire thermal administration procedure and supply unique descriptions of the underlying phenomena, modeling equations, and correlations, in addition to information for attaining the optimum designs of person ''building blocks'' and their insertion within the total thermal answer. particular volumes care for microchannel coolers, chilly plates, immersion cooling modules, thermoelectric microcoolers, and cooling units for stable country lights structures, in addition to innovations and methods for the experimental characterization of thermal administration elements. those ''building blocks'' are the basic components within the construction of a whole, competitively priced thermal administration method. The 4 units within the Encyclopedia of Thermal Packaging will give you the amateur and scholar with a whole reference for a fast ascent at the thermal packaging ''learning curve'', the practitioner with a proven set of strategies and instruments to stand each problem, and researchers with a transparent definition of the state of the art and rising must advisor their destiny efforts. This encyclopedia will, hence, be of significant curiosity to packaging engineers, digital product improvement engineers, and product managers, in addition to to researchers in thermal administration of digital and photonic elements and platforms, and most dear to undergraduate and graduate scholars learning mechanical, electric, and digital engineering. Read more...

By Gale Group Staff

A significant other to Worldmark Yearbook 2000, this 10th variation deals 4 volumes at the continents plus one at the United countries and a brand new quantity on global leaders. each one continent quantity includes alphabetically prepared chaptersDranging from ten to 30 pagesDdescribing approximately two hundred international locations and dependencies. every one bankruptcy includes a big variety of data on 50 subject matters, together with inhabitants, topography, heritage, govt, media, and a bibliography. particularly noteworthy: a few of these sections supply details no longer on hand in different geographical encyclopedias (e.g., judicial process, neighborhood govt, and libraries and museums). Compiled typically by way of teachers, the succinctly written articles comprise a lot present details, a few of it courting from as lately as August 2000. the quantity on leaders is principally priceless, supplying hard-to-find biographical details on lesser-known heads of nation. those profiles, often written or up-to-date in 2000, were culled from a number of print and internet resources. the amount at the United countries is a wonderful prepared reference, describing the historical past and constitution of U.N. firms and together with beneficial comparative statistical tables. a truly minor quibble: the rustic volumes don't comprise signed entries. nonetheless, this set is a phenomenal resource supplying trustworthy, entire, and simply obtainable details for commonly asked reference questions. the cost could be steep for smaller libraries, yet this can be hugely prompt for greater public and educational collections.

By Kitty Blount, Maggie Crowley

The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life is simply that: a spectacularly illustrated, complete advisor to the prehistoric global, and the vegetation and animals that lived there. With in-depth discussions of early Earth's eras of hospitable (and inhospitable) climates, stipulations, and the lifestyles varieties that flourished and floundered.

This snappy, fantastically illustrated accomplished on prehistoric existence is one other must-have. After an introductory web page on the best way to utilise its details, it units out the compulsory few pages approximately evolution, fossils, taking a look into the prior and organism category, then plunges into sincerely outlined chapters at the major animal teams, every one following bankruptcy all in favour of the subsequent evolutionary vital one, so Fishes & Invertebrates are first up, following on with Amphibians & Reptiles, Dinosaurs & Birds are grouped thirdly, and mammals final: intriguingly people are featured in the midst of this final bankruptcy, rather than the tip! eventually the e-book closes with distinctive, but effortless to learn, descriptions round the obligatory round-up subjects-fossil reveals, websites, lab paintings, fossil and skeltal reconstruction and a magnificent 14 web page library of significant biologists and paleontologists because the very overdue 1700s. a last checklist in colored packing containers demonstrating many of the museums within the united kingdom, US and past, and what the most screens contain, web pages are indexed too. A word list completes the e-book.

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By DK Publishing

How can a cheetah speed up from 0 to 40 miles according to hour in 3 seconds? How do termites construct cooling platforms into their houses? what's that Alien-like set of jaws in a moray eel's mouth for? those questions and extra are explored in tremendous Nature Encyclopedia, an interactive examine the "wow" issue of the wildlife — spotlighting nice White Sharks, African Elephants, Emperor Moths, Howler Monkeys and extra of the world's so much interesting and magnificent animals in awesome element. Visualized with amazing 3D animal versions with cross-sections and strip layers, readers can discover each crucial element of the animals' anatomical good points and examine why their our bodies paintings the way in which they do.

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