Category: Encyclopedias

By Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

By Gale, Laurie J. Fundukian

This replace to the critically-acclaimed first variation presents in 2 volumes comprehensible but specific details on psychological issues and stipulations. that includes an easy-to-use structure and written in non-technical language, the Encyclopedia contains entries for all a hundred and fifty issues categorised within the Diagnostic and Statistical guide of psychological issues, textual content revision (DSM-IV-TR). It additionally gains entries for prescription, replacement and over the counter medicines, in addition to many of the remedies used to regard psychological issues.

By S. T. Joshi

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is often considered as the prime writer of supernatural fiction within the twentieth century. he's special between writers in having an incredible well known following in addition to a substantial and extending educational attractiveness as a author of substance and importance. This encyclopedia is an exhaustive consultant to many elements of Lovecraft's existence and paintings, codifying the designated examine on Lovecraft performed through many students over the last 3 many years. It comprises thousands of alphabetically prepared entries on Lovecraft and provides large bibliographical information.The quantity attracts upon infrequent files, together with hundreds of thousands of unpublished letters, in offering plot synopses of Lovecraft's significant works, descriptions of characters in his stories, tablet biographies of his significant colleagues and family, and entries on little identified positive factors in his tales, equivalent to his imaginary booklet of occult lore, the Necronomicon. the amount refers to present scholarship at the concerns in query and likewise provides the literary, topographical, and biographical resources for key parts in Lovecraft's paintings. As Lovecraft's renown keeps to ascend within the twenty first century, this encyclopedia may be necessary to an realizing of his lifestyles and writings.

By Allen J. Bard, Martin Stratmann, Ernesto J. Calvo

Unrivalled in its breadth and intensity, this 11-volume encyclopedia offers either a simple creation to all subject matters concerning glossy electrochemistry in addition to a accomplished assessment of the topic. all through, the emphasis is in quick access to info, with each subject taken care of at an introductory, medium and complex point. This first class reference paintings is edited and written by way of popular scientists, protecting every thing from basic learn to parts of program. Alan Bard, skilled editor of the magazine of the yankee Chemical Society, is among the most famed specialists in electrochemistry and one of many editors-in-chief.

By Steve Ellis

Covers the priorities and demanding situations dealing with companies who're more and more interested by 'knowledge work'; it truly is written from a human family - instead of a technological - standpoint. It makes use of genuine situations, sponsored up by means of proof and research from a close learn into strategic wisdom dependent operating (KBW). The content material of the ebook attracts on leader resources: the author's personal services in KBW built over 5 years of blue chip KBW consultancy, and the result of a formerly unpublished 5 yr examine. The e-book bargains transparent, step by step assistance to executives who have to comprehend, install and enforce KBW.

• Outlines the most important demanding situations for KBW in any respect organisational levels
• Self review questions on the finish of every of the 4 chapters
• Interchapter case reviews for intensive teaching/understanding

By R. Clifton Spargo

Vigilant Memory makes a speciality of the actual position of Emmanuel Levinas's inspiration in reasserting the moral parameters for poststructuralist feedback within the aftermath of the Holocaust. greater than easily situating Levinas's ethics in the greater context of his philosophy, R. Clifton Spargo deals a brand new rationalization of its value when it comes to history.

In severe readings of the bounds and likewise the heretofore untapped probabilities of Levinasian ethics, Spargo explores the influence of the Holocaust on Levinas's a number of figures of injustice whereas analyzing where of mourning, the undesirable moral sense, the sufferer, and the stranger/neighbor as they seem in Levinas's paintings. finally, Spargo levels past Levinas's specific philosophical or implicit political positions to calculate the mandatory functionality of the "memory of injustice" in our cultural and political discourses at the features of a simply society.

In this unique and magisterial research, Spargo makes use of Levinas's paintings to strategy our realizing of the pain and loss of life of others, and in doing so reintroduces an important moral aspect to the studying of literature, tradition, and way of life.

By Ferguson Publishing

In eight volumes provides articles describing over seven-hundred jobs or profession fields, discussing own, academic, necessities; methods of exploring the profession; wage records; task outlook; and the way to procure additional information concerning the career.

By Barry Keith Grant

This reference offers a entire and obtainable creation to movie and movie reviews, overlaying such points as creation, nationwide traditions, studios, genres, severe concept and picture heritage. nearly 2 hundred entries hide particular issues, together with appearing, censorship, modifying, lighting fixtures and others. additionally integrated are greater than 230 occupation profiles, putting person achievements within the context of particular themes (for instance, Robert Altman is featured within the article on "Sound"). extra positive aspects comprise a finished index; a listing of extra examining assets; 350 black-and-white and a hundred and fifty complete colour pictures; and extra.

By Gwendolyn Mink, Alice M. O'Connor

The first interdisciplinary connection with conceal the socioeconomic and political background, the events, and the altering face of poverty within the United States.

• three hundred A–Z entries on themes with regards to poverty and social welfare, together with the political discovery of poverty, antipoverty regulations, and debates approximately legislation

• comprises 5 introductory chronological essays protecting U.S. poverty because the colonial period, giving a ancient starting place to the entries within the book

• Contributions from over 2 hundred uncommon students and experts

• a number of illustrations and first resource records dispersed during the work

By Marcel Danesi

Semiotics, Media experiences and verbal exchange reports are 3 heavily interlinked fields. in short acknowledged, Semiotics, the technology of indicators, seems to be at how people look for and build which means; verbal exchange reports is worried with how that means is conveyed; and Media reviews considers the ways that messages are transmitted and got. This dictionary is designed to assist scholars and common readers liberate the importance of the terminology and jargon established in those fields.

Being interdisciplinary in nature, Semiotics, Media, and communique reviews are cluttered with notions derived from different disciplines. accordingly, this dictionary additionally encompasses easy options from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, psychology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, philosophy, man made intelligence, computing device technology, and biology. accrued listed here are the phrases, ideas, personages, colleges of inspiration, and historic hobbies that seem often within the correct literature.

The foundation of every access is a straightforward definition, which regularly contains the term's beginning. Illustrations are supplied the place useful, in addition to old sketches of pursuits or faculties of inspiration. The observation on personages comprises short statements approximately their contribution and relevance. hence, the dictionary not just defines what a time period potential, yet frequently is going into its background, functions, and vast implications. phrases are cross-referenced and their etymology is given the place attainable.

This is a compact, sensible study handbook that would relieve a lot stress for college kids in semiotics and similar fields. as a result of its interdisciplinary method, it's going to additionally offer a number of students with a convenient connection with disciplines special from yet regarding their own.