Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

‘Two policy proposals are particularly notable and owe nothing to the long-standing controversies between left and right. Rather, they suggest new ...

Sport, Leisure and Tourism is a practical guide to finding information, encouraging readers to make active use of libraries in their research. This...

Employing a range of archive black and white photographs, this book examines the US Marine Corps' organisation and command structure, strategy, tac...

Now in Paperback! Early in 1971, Five Fingers of Death premiered in a New York movie theater. This was America's first look at a Chinese martial ar...

Diplomatics was originally developed in France during the seventeenth century in attempts to prove the authenticity of archival documents. It was l...

Military Balance is the International Institute for Strategic Studies annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of nearl...

Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all the episodes of long-running, widespread communal vio...

This book draws on both traditional and emerging fields of study to consider consider what a grounded definition of quantitative and qualitative re...

The Economies of European Union Small Member and Candidate States deals with the small states and candidate states of the EU, with a focus on their...

Adventure, fantasy, mystery/suspense—teens love genre fiction—and genre nonfiction! By focusing on the genres teens love, you'll find a great way t...

Videogames, Libraries, and the Feedback Loop: Learning Beyond the Stacks offers fresh perspectives of youth videogaming in public libraries. Abrams...

This book, first published in 1986, contains a collection of remarkable essays analysing such topics as the nature of reading, the power of books, ...

Cuneiform to Computer provides a brief history of how reference works developed, but concentrates on how they reflect attitudes of their particular...

The book is a coming-of-age novel, something that in other languages is expressed more pointedly as the novel of education. Nol, 'the judge's son,'...

Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded provides an introduction to what has been called "the economic way of thinking," which explains some...

This book details the painful, torturous, and often unbelievable turn of events in the McMartin sexual molestation case. It offers a critical windo...

This new edition is an indispensable aid for helping students improve their skills in Spanish. Designed with upper level students in mind, each cha...

A unique resource for both academics and practitioners, School District Budgeting provides a comprehensive look at the resource allocation process,...

Faith communities have always struggled with the questions of ethical method and cultural inclusivity. Accordingly, Ethical Issues that Matter enla...

Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Could this misguided equality have anything to do with th...

Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam steps beyond the limitations of the traditional scholarly framework used to evaluate the politics of Islamic...

What Were Your Parents Doing Back Then? is a comprehensive, in-depth study of teen drug and alcohol abuse that begins in the "hip" days of the 1970...