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Acquisitions and Collection Management: Social Science Literature
Author_Jeffrey E. Long
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Reference and Information Services and Tools: Social Science Literature Reference Tools
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- ISBN 9781591581741
- Weight: 1247g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on first-person accounts that tell, at least in part, the remembered stories of childhood and youth, this guide organizes more than 2,800 titles in categories that reflect shared themes and characteristics. Long groups works into such chapters as The Traveled and the Captive: Adventurers, Explorers, and Warriors; Homes and Haunts: The Places and Cultures of Native Lands; and The Darker Side of Childhood; Outcasts, Violence, Abuse, Poverty, and Other Traumas. Keywords and occasional notes, along with birth and death dates of the author, accompany the entries, offering further insights.
Jeffrey E. Long, former associate editor of and longtime reviewer for American Reference Books Annual, currently works at Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass., and is editor of SoutteReview.
