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In 2015, as Americans worried about terrorist attacks at home and abroad, a disturbing new study showed that while 71 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks on U.S. soil over [...]

While serving as a brigade surgeon in the Canadian field artillery, John McCrae treated those wounded during the Second Battle of Ypres in spring 1915. After 17 days, and following [...]

Louis Shores. writing in 1939 in the second edition of his Basic Reference Sources, defined a reference book as any book which is used to refer to for specific information.' [...]

Last year brought a big change to the reference world: Encyclopaedia Britannica announced its exit from the print business, 244 years after its famous, eponymous work was first pubhshed. The [...]

Last year saw reference works aplenty showcasing individual brilliance and painstaking labor. Jacob Green's Dartmouth Medal-winning Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Univ.), for example, offers 53,000 entries totaling 10.3 million words: [...]

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia. Greenwood. 338p. ed. by Julie Willett. illus. bibliog, index. ISBN 9780313359491. $85. Online: ABC-CUO eBook Collection Willett (history and gender studies, Texas [...]

Somehow, the lyrics from the Ervin Drake song made famous by Frank Sinatra, 'It Was a Very Good Year,' kept coming to mind in 2010, despite the economy. While the [...]

America's subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 spiraled into a global financial crisis in 2008. For much of the year, attention was riveted on the presidential primaries. A worsening economy made [...]

It seemed that in 2007, everyone was talking about the 'subprime' mortgage crisis, which negatively impacted first the U.S. and then the world economy. No one wanted to talk about [...]

Reading reference sources, whether on paper or on the screen, often leads to enlightened thinking, especially for your patrons. In an earlier age, enlightened monarchs surrounded themselves with leading intellectuals […]

Whether in print or online or both, reference publishing had a wonderful year in 2005, as evidenced by the following list. This year we have altered our approach, combining print [...]

On September 23, 2004, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published after 12 years of preparation to almost universal acclaim. With close to 55,000 essays from 10,000 contributors, [...]

AMERICA AND THE WORLD had many reasons to worry in 2003. First we faced the outbreak of a strange, contagious disease dubbed SARS. Although contained within months, the disease spread […]

To paraphrase Mark Twain, 'rumors of reference's death have been greatly exaggerated.' Despite news from HarperCollins that Harper Reference would be merged into its adult trade division and a rumored [...]

In the December issue of Information Today, Tim Miller suggests that 'the World Wide Web reached its adolescence' last year. What began as a trickle in 1995 had all the [...]

In 2005, Internet users numbered more than one billion, almost 200 million of whom are from the United States. The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported that by the [...]

On April 18, 2013, PR Newswire announced that a survey commissioned by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) found that 'more than 90 percent of Americans polled said that free content [...]

Amphibians: The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts. Firefly. 264p. ed. by Robert Hofrichter. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-55209-541-X. $44.95. Thirty-seven scientists from around the world explore, in essay [...]

Rollin, Lucy. Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide. Greenwood. 396p. Illus. index. ISBN 0-313-30223-5. $60. In the most entertaining reference book of the year, Rollin describes teen [...]

Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Scribner. 1800p. ed. by Ronald Gottesman & Richard M. Brown. illus. index. ISBN 0-684-80487-5. $375. It's hard to forget the disturbing series of [...]

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing. ABC-CLIO. 354p. illus. Bibliog. index. ISBN 1-57607-086-7. $75. To describe the lives of noted healers in the context of their times, Snodgrass discusses [...]

Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 15 vols. Yorkin Pubns: Gale. ed. by Anne Commire & Deborah Klezmer. illus. index. ISBN 0-7876-3736-X. $995. With five volumes completed and ten [...]

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Bks: Perseus. 2144p. ed. by Kwame Anthony Appiah & Henry Louis Gates Jr. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN [...]

American National Biography. 24 vols. Oxford Univ. 22,968p. ed. by John A. Garraty & Mark C. Carnes. index. ISBN 0-19-520635-5. $2500. Historic perspectives change. This truism prompted scholars to replace [...]

The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. Smithsonian. 750p. ed. by Don E. Wilson & Sue Ruff. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 1-56098-845-2. $75. A strong candidate for the most [...]

Schultz, Ken. Ken Schultz's Fishing Encyclopedia: Worldwide Angling Guide. IDG. 1916p. illus. maps. ISBN 0-02-862057-7. $60. Anyone who has ever wet a line, heard a cork pop, or watched a [...]

Mattison, Chris. Snake. DK. 192p. illus. index. ISBN 0-7894-4660-X. $29.95. The cover subtitle, The Essential Visual Guide to the World of Snakes, accurately describes this detailed and dramatically illustrated exploration [...]

Olson, Kent C. Legal Information. Oryx. 333p. index. ISBN 0-89774-963-4. pap. $39.50. As part of Oryx Press's 'How To Find It, How To Use It' series, this examines not only [...]

The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford Univ. 892p. ed. by Alan Davidson. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-19-211579-0. $60. This encyclopedia was 20-plus years in the making and will become a [...]

Mitchell-Jones, A.J. & others. The Atlas of European Mammals. T&AD Poyser: Academic. 484p. illus. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-85661-130-1. $59.95. The primary intention of this atlas is to give as [...]