JSTOR is a database consisting of full-text articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals from nearly every discipline taught at Calvin. Coverage for each journal begins with the first volume, with coverage ending for most titles three and five years ago. A growing number of journals now have coverage up to the present!
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues around the world.
This Text Revision incorporates information culled from a comprehensive literature review of research about mental disorders published since DSM-IV was completed in 1994. Updated information is included about the associated features, culture, age, and gender features, prevalence, course, and familial pattern of mental disorders.
Each key concept begins with a concise definition followed by illustrations of how the concept has been applied within the field. Cross-references to related concepts are included along with suggestions for further reading.
This is a premier and very current source for business students and professionals, providing basic data on 70 major industries arranged in 52 major groups.
Contains historical and current data, detailed analysis, and useful
graphs that answer questions about education in the United States.
Helps the reader understand and compare the quality of education at the
national, regional, state, and county levels.
The stated purpose of the 2 volume handbook is "to provide in a single reference source answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting..."
Background Notes on the Countries of the World is a series of short, factual pamphlets written by officers in the Department of State's geographical bureaus.
From the Preface: "A to Zoo can be used to obtain information about children's picture books in two ways: to learn the titles, authors, and illustrators of books on a particular subject, such as 'dragons' or 'weddings'; or to ascertain the subject (or subjects) when only the title, author and title, or illustrator and title are known." Now in its seventh edition, this is a standard reference source for picture books.
This ambitious three-volume set covers social, cultural, psychological, physical, and educational aspects of deafness. Many articles are signed and contain bibliographies.
The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art website provides lists of high quality and content-rich internet resources from thousands of educational web sites.
A digital publishing initiative that provides images, texts, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture, from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Formerly part of the Army Area Handbook Program, "The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world."
An annual statistical publication of the Asian Development Bank, providing historical and current economic, financial, environment and social statistics on the Bank's thirty nine developing member countries (DMCs).
A reference that helps nurses and students correlate diagnoses with information about clients based on assessment findings, medical and psychiatric diagnoses, and treatment plans.
A ready-reference handbook of the most frequently used data in science, including the periodic table of elements, basic constants and units, and geophysical data.
World Bank's annual compilation of data about development includes more than 800 indicators in 83 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.
Extensive five volume work containing critical summary essays of major philosophical works, critiques by modern scholars, and extensive bibliographies for further study.
The UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa (GRCA) GlobaLink-Africa
Online Curriculum is an interactive online resource for thinking
critically about globalization and its relationship to Africa, Africans
and United States-Africa policy.
Designed with the overarching goal to collect together in a single resource the knowledge generated by this interdisciplinary field, highlighting the links between science and practice.
Provides a history and a recent snapshot of the world's media. Includes 219 signed entries with bibliographies and cross-references. Volumes are arranged by theme.
Written by 1400 experts, this unique encyclopedia has over 1000 peer-reviewed articles covering a wide range of topics, from structural and functional genomics to ethical and social issues.
This dictionary traces the record of human communication, emphasizing its chronological and technological development as well as the major social implications of innovative communication methods.
