Reference : Bibliographies & Indexes

Using Adobe Acrobat browsing and search features, users of this bibliography can easily locate popular US government documents for 2000, 2001, and 2002 across a wide range of subjects including the arts and humanities, business, education, energy, the environment, science and technology, and women's issues to name just a few of the major topics covered. more...

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This is a scholarly bibliography aimed at helping people who wish to learn to speak Romani, the language of Gypsy and Roma peoples throughout the world, and which is made up of a large number of dialects. It is intended to be accessible (and is not weighed down by linguistic technicalities), so that the author’s highly informed comments on the entries will enable readers to decide for themselves which materials would best suit their purposes. Although the study of Gypsy dialects has been a recognised area of linguistics for well over 200 years, surprisingly little has been published dealing with practical aspects of learning the language as it is actually spoken. There are many excellent studies of the language, but not nearly as much material that actually teaches one how to speak and understand any contemporary Romani dialect. A huge proportion of this material has now been listed here and arranged in an easily understood way. Both printed and online resources are detailed as well as audio recordings. more...

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This is a unique and intimate insider's account of the founding and growth of a small New York science and medical publishing company over the last 57 years. Bernhard Springer, the Berlin-born great-grandson of the founder of Springer-Verlag, started his own publishing company in 1950. For the next 20 years, he slowly but surely grew his company from the ground up, demonstrating a preternatural ability to foresee areas where quality publishing was needed and answering that need. Beginning modestly with books like the Livestock Health Encyclopedia , he published his first nursing title, Handbook of Cardiology for Nurses in 1952. The company would soon branch into other fields, but nursing remained (as it remains today) Springer Publishing's signature subject, the quality and depth of which list having cemented Springer's reputation as one of the major publishers in the field. In the 1960s, Springer again recognized a nascent field in need of quality research-gerontology--and became one of the first publishers to commission books extensively on the topic, again establishing an international reputation as a industry leader in that field. The company continued to build its programs in other areas, including psychology, where its publication of the controversial psychologist Silvan Tomkins's The Picture Arrangement Test established a reputation for risk-taking. Bernhard Springer's untimely death in 1970 left the company in the hands of his wife Ursula, a teacher by trade, who went on to run the company for 34 years. Dr. Springer oversaw in that long turbulent period many changes in the publishing industry but continued to build on her husband's innovations while establishing an identity of her own as a book and journals publisher to reckon with. This book is Dr. Springer's story of the Springer Publishing Company, from its inception to its sale to Mannheim Holdings, LLC, in 2004, and beyond. Dr. Springer tells a fascinating first-hand tale of more...

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Biographies of memorable individuals who have shaped history. more...

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IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences. more...

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