A new addition to our Oxford Digital Reference Shelf collection. This reference tool encompasses over four thousand years of artistry and innovation and spans every art form, medium, and civilization from Cycladic,
Minoan, Helladic, and Etruscan art to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Provides comprehensive coverage of "the study of animals in their natural environments with the latest findings from the fields of evolution, biochemistry, and genetics..."
Events, organizations, concepts, and individuals core to women's studies are covered in this volume. Concise definitions with historical significance included. Basic bibliography for each entry.
ed. Horst Haider Munske. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2001. Gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary Frisian language and dialects, their history and literatures, and research trends in Frisian studies. Essays are evenly divided between English- and German-language contributions, each with a bibliography.
A resource that covers: major sociological terms and topic areas; other social science disciplines; influential sociologists; primary research methods; and frequently used "common language" terms.
"...offers valuable, hard-to-find data about demographic trends, marketer spending by category and company, Hispanic media and an expanded ranking of the top 50 Hispanic ad agencies."
"Biographical sketches of some 400 influential literary, political, and scholarly authors from the US, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America."
Sections 1-2 contain a cartographic presentation of 500 years of territorial organization, demography, and culture. Sections 3-5 focus on political, social, and economic issues specific to each country, beginning in the colonial period.
Contains 650 well-researched maps depicting cultural, social, demographic, political and economic topics, ranging from prehistory to 1977. Well-indexed, with an extensive bibliography. The 1992 edition is the "second impression, with additional material."
Contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s. This is an electronic reprint of the 2d edition of Historical Statistics of Canada, jointly produced by the Social Science Federation of Canada and Statistics Canada in 1983.
Census Bureau statistics on social, political, economic and geographical topics. Each section includes an introductory essay and annotated list of sources which offer more detail.
This definitive work discusses how film operates as a language and the various techniques and concepts that are responsible for eliciting audience responses.
The Human Development Report (HDR) examines issues associated with rich and poor countries: migration, predatory extremism, and the expansion of cultural diversity. It also proposes policy to promote cultural liberty and multicultural democracy.
ICPSR acquires, preserves, enhances, and distributes original social science research data for research and instruction. In addition, ICPSR provides resources for training in quantitative analysis methods.
U. S. International Trade Commission. -- Each commodity/industry report contains information on product uses, U.S. and foreign producers, customs treatment, and factors affecting trends in consumption, production, trade and competitiveness of U.S. industries in domestic and foreign markets.
