New Reference Books

General Reference

Call number	Title/Year/Pages
R331.702 ENH 2007	The enhanced occupational outlook handbook. / JIST Works, c2007. – 774 p.
This resource combines three authoritative occupational data sources. It includes the complete text of the Occupational Outlook Handbook, related job descriptions from the government's latest O*NET database, and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. It contains detailed, readable descriptions for nearly 270 major occupations covering about 88 percent of the workforce. The job descriptions describe the nature of the work, working conditions, training and education needed, job outlook, earnings, related jobs, and sources of additional information. Descriptions are arranged into 11 major categories. There is also a worksheet for comparing career alternatives, along with other tips for exploring job options. The appendix discusses future trends. The book is indexed by general as well as more-specific job titles. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Job descriptions--Periodicals.; Vocational interests--United States--Periodicals.)
R340.025 VAU 2008	Vault guide to the top 100 law firms. / Vault Inc., c2007. -- 815 p. – Annual.
This book continues Vault.com Guide to the Top 50 Law Firms. The only annually updated insider's guide to law firms, this is an unbiased, investigative and comprehensive look at the top law firms in the country. Based on surveys of nearly 15,000 lawyers, it provides in-depth coverage of legal lifestyle issues at almost 200 top firms. The introduction discusses the state of the law, and is followed by four main sections containing rankings by prestige, partners, quality of life, and diversity. Within each section are explanations of methodology, lists of top firms, and rankings by region, department, and other characteristics. Listings contains opinions and observation (in “The Buzz”); facts about the firm (e.g. locations, major departments and practices, salary, perks, uppers and downers, and contact info) ; statistics; ranking recap; quality of life meters; profiles; and the best of the rest. There is also a list of the “Vault 100,” along with directories of legal employers, legal recruiter firms, diversity programs, and pro bono programs. The appendix contains human resources policies, and an alphabetical list of law firms. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Law firms--United States--Ratings--Periodicals.; Law firms--United States--Rankings--Periodicals.; Law firms--United States--Directories. )
R342.730852 MER	Religion and the law in America : an encyclopedia of personal belief and public policy / Scott A. Merriman. -- ABC-CLIO, c2007. – 547 p.
This encyclopedia explores the many facets of religion and the law in America. It contains 250 A-Z entries that discuss laws, court cases, activists, policy makers, and organizations that have been involved in debates about church and state since colonial times. Fifteen thematic essays analyzing controversial topics precede the entries. A timeline traces the development of attitudes towards the issue of interaction between government and religion, and changes in the relationship between church and state. Entries include bibliographies. Each volume includes a comprehensive table of contents. There is a glossary, a general bibliography, and an index. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Freedom of religion--United States--Encyclopedias.; Religion and law--United States--Encyclopedias.; Church and state--United States--Encyclopedias.; Religion and law--United States--Cases.)
R364.1092 HEL	The complete public enemy almanac : new facts and features on the people, places, and events of the gangster and outlaw era, 1920-1940 / William J. Helmer and Rick Mattix. -- Cumberland House, 2007. -- 669 p.
This book studies the lives and times of gangsters and outlaws of the 20s and 30s. It offers original revisionist insights into this era , and includes biographies, chronologies of crime, rare photos, editorial cartoons, headlines, dozens of sidebars highlighting the social history of the era, origins and meanings of terms widely used in the 20s and 30s, new light on famous events, etc.. It traces the evolution of law enforcement technology, and examines the influence crime has had on politics and popular culture. There is a bibliography of true-crime books published in the 20s and 30s. The appendix contains assorted lists and documentation. There is also an index. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Gangsters--United States--History--20th century.; Outlaws--United States--History--20th century.)
R378.155 BES 2008	Best 290 business schools -- 2008 ed. / The Princeton Review, c2008. – 799 p. – Annual.
This insider’s perspective on the nation’s top business schools provides rankings based on student surveys, along with detailed statistical information on 154 additional programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. It contains 4 main parts. Part 1 clarifies the subject of business schools. Part 2 presents schools ranked by category. Part 3A contains descriptive profiles. Part 3B contains data listings. There are 3 indexes. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Business schools--United States--Evaluation--Directories.; Business schools--Evaluation--Directories.; College choice--Directories.)
R378.3 FER	Ferguson career resource guide to grants, scholarships, and other financial resources. / Ferguson, c2007. – 2 volumes.
This is a directory of tools to help pay for college tuition and related expenses. It features financial assistance resources, helpful essays, and web and print resources that tell people how and where to look for financial aid, and what kinds of aid are available. There are 4 main parts: introduction and overview; essays on key issues; directory; and resources. The directory consists of 3 main sections: financial aid by major; student-profile-based financial aid; and other types of financial aid. Listings are arranged by name of scholarship, and include information about academic area, age group, eligibility, application process, amount, and deadline. Each volume contains comprehensive indexes by geographic location, academic major, and name of organization.
R378.3 GET	Get free cash for college -- 2008 / SuperCollege, c2007. – 576 p.
This is a comprehensive scholarship directory and strategy guide for parents and high school, college, and graduate students. It has 2 main parts. Part 1 is a strategy guide for finding the right scholarships, crafting applications, writing exceptional essays, avoiding scams, getting the right recommendations, doing well on interviews, asking the college for a financial aid reassessment, with other secrets, tips, and strategies. Part 2 is a directory containing 45 major scholarship categories, such as career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, and ethnicity. Arrangement is alphabetical by category and then by sponsor. Scholarships are listed numerically, and cross-referenced. Listings include name of scholarship, purpose, eligibility, how to apply, deadline, amount, and number of awards. There is a “special features” section containing personal accounts by students of how the scholarship process really works, with advice for each step.
R423.12 CON	Concise Oxford American thesaurus. / Oxford University Press, c2006. -- 996 p.
This thesaurus is based on the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus. It contains over 15,000 main entries, including more than 350,000 synonyms, with sample sentences or phrases for virtually every sense. The synonyms in each entry are grouped in numbered sets. Synonym Studies explore the subtle differences in meaning among a group of easily confused synonyms. There is a Language Guide at the back of the book,that contains information about grammar, usage, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and proofreader’s marks.
R621.31924 RSM 2008	RS Means electrical cost data. – 2008 -- 31st ed. / R.S. Means Co., c2007. – 581 p. – Annual.
This book is useful to designing, engineering, and contracting estimators. It is a comprehensive guide to construction costs, productivity rates, preliminary project cost, product selections, and alternate materials and methods. It has 3 main sections: the unit price section (which contains 50 divisions), the assemblies section (functional elements of a building, arranged into 7 divisions), and the reference section. The unit price section covers concrete, metals, wood, plastics, composites, thermal and moisture protection, openings, finishes, specialties, equipment, furnishings, special construction, fire suppression, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, communications, electronic safety and security, earthwork, utilities, and transportation. The assemblies section covers services and building sitework. The reference section covers construction equipment rental costs, crew listings, historical cost indexes, city cost indexes, location factors, reference tables, square foot costs, and abbreviations. The inside back cover lists labor trade rates including overhead and profit. This title continues Means Electrical Cost Data. There is an index.
R634.96 SIN	Diseases of trees and shrubs / Wayne A. Sinclair and Howard H. Lyon. -- 2nd ed.. -- Comstock Pub. Associates/Cornell University Press, 2005. -- 660 p.
This standard reference for plant health specialists, plant diagnosticians, horticulturists, arborists, foresters, and students surveys the diseases of forest and shade trees and woody ornamental plants in the United States and Canada. It contains more than 2200 color images, and more than 350 black-and-white photographs and drawings. Chapters are organized according to type of disease-inducing agent. Symptoms, signs, and cycles of hundreds of diseases are described, and microscopic features of many pathogens are depicted in photos and line drawings. A searchable CD-ROM included with the book contains an MS Word file of bibliographic entries for more than 4500 works that readers can consult for additional information or images (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Trees--Diseases and pests--United States.; Shrubs--Diseases and pests--United States.; Trees--Diseases and pests--Canada.; Shrubs--Diseases and pests--Canada.; Trees--Wounds and injuries--United States.; Shrubs--Wounds and injuries--United States.; Trees--Wounds and injuries--Canada.; Shrubs--Wounds and injuries--Canada.)
R709.38 GRO	The Grove encyclopedia of classical art and architecture / edited by Gordon Campbell. -- Oxford University Press, c2007. – 2 vol.
This encyclopedia was written for students, specialists, and the general public. It is based on The Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) and Grove Art Online, but includes dozens of additional entries. More than 1,000 alphabetically arranged articles trace the development of the art forms of ancient Greece and Rome as well as the Minoan, Cycladic, Helladic, Mycenaean, and Etruscan cultures, from the 2nd millennium BC to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Geographical focus is on the ancient Mediterranean, but extends to related civilizations such as the Punic, Nabataean, and Seleucid cultures, and Western Europe. The articles discuss areas, such as islands and cities; and a wide range of art forms, including Jewish and Christian art forms; and all subject areas in the classical arts, including philosophers, rulers, writers and artists, architecture, ceramics, sculpture, and more. A thematic index precedes the entries. References accompany the articles. Illustrations include 400 halftones, maps and line drawings, with 32 color plates, There is an index. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Art, Classical--Encyclopedias. ; Architecture, Classical--Encyclopedias. )
R738.82 ANT	Antique Trader Royal Doulton price guide / edited by Kyle Husfloen. -- Krause Publications, c2006. -- 368 p.
This comprehensive, profusely-illustrated guide begins with background on Doulton & Co., its history, studios, factories, kinds of ware, figurines, character jugs, Bunnykins, and artists; as well as collecting Royal Doulton. This is followed by chapters on the 11 main categories of Royal Doulton. Listings contain description, number, dates, height, whether there is an illustration, and value. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Doulton and Company--Catalogs. ; Royal Doulton character jugs--Catalogs. )
R808.882 OXF	The Oxford dictionary of American quotations / selected and annotated by Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner. -- Oxford University Press, c2006. -- 898 p.
This book contains about 6,000 memorable quotations by people from all walks of life on some 500 aspects of American life and culture. Organized along historical lines by topic, entries indicate when and where the quotation was first said, its historical background, and which version of a disputed quote is authentic. The main text is arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically, with a new numbering sequence beginning on each page. Indexing is by author and keyword. This is a revision of the Penguin Reference edition published in 1997 under the title The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations.
R930.1 WOR	The world encyclopedia of archaeology : [the world's most significant sites and cultural treasures] / chief consultant Aedeen Cremin. -- Firefly Books, c2007. -- 400 p.
This well-illustrated, comprehensive and up-to-date encyclopedia will be helpful to professionals, researchers, history buffs, and general readers. End-papers contain a map of the world with 155 major archaeological sites indicated by numbers. The introduction, which discusses archaeology in general, includes \ a history of the field, types of archaeology, concepts and techniques, problems and issues, and important questions that archaeology can answer. It is followed by timelines of archaeology and sections arranged by continent, and color-coded. There is also a guide to sites by country, a further reading section, a glossary, and an index.
R970.00497 JOH	Encyclopedia of native tribes of North America -- 3rd ed. / Michael Johnson ; color plates by Richard Hook. -- Firefly Books, 2007. -- 320 p.
This is a fully-illustrated encyclopedia on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 identifiable peoples native to North America. It includes a general introduction, classification of Indian languages, distribution of cultures, and sections on tribes arranged geographically into 10 sections. Following the entries are an essay on “The Indian Today,” glossary, bibliography, guide to museums, statistics about Native populations, and an index.
R973 THR	State houses : America's 50 state capitol buildings / Susan W. Thrane, Tom Patterson. -- Boston Mills Press : Distributed by Firefly Books (U.S.), 2005 -- 336 p.
This book presents 50 state capitol buildings and their design history, architecture, materials, artwork, and the politics surrounding their construction, chronologically by completion date, from Maryland, the first, to Alabama, the last. The color photos feature exterior and interior shots, furniture, sculptures, House of Representatives rooms, rotundas, staircases, libraries, and domes. The introduction is an overview of the history of the state capitols. Each chapter includes facts such as origin of the state’s name, its capital, date of construction of the state house building, architect, date the state was admitted to the union, and numbers of senate and house members. There is a selected bibliography and an index. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: United States--Capital and capitol--Pictorial works.)
R973.91 YOU	The Great Depression in America : a cultural encyclopedia / William H. Young and Nancy K. Young. -- Greenwood Press, 2007. -- 668 p.)
The 200 entries of this encyclopedia present the popular culture of the United States during the Great Depression. Each volume is preceded by an alphabetical list of entries, and a guide to related topics which groups the entries into the following categories: art, architecture, aviation, comic books and strips, expositions and fairs, fads and games, film, food and drink, government, individuals, literature, magazines, music, musicians, newspapers, organizations, radio, social issues, sports, theater, travel, and youth culture. Entries are cross-referenced, and conclude with a guide to selected readings. A general bibliography is included at the end of the second volume. There is an index. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: United States--Civilization--1918-1945--Encyclopedias.; United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945--Encyclopedias.)
BUSINESS REFERENCE
R658.86 FOO 2008	Food & beverage market place. 2008 / Grey House Pub., c2007. -- 3 volumes. – Annual.
This book continues Thomas Food & Beverage Market place. It represents the combination of two databases (Thomas Food Industry Register (TFIR), and Food and Beverage Market Place (FMP)) and Food and Beverage Market Place-Suppliers Edition. Volume I opens with a product category list, and a listing of products and manufacturers with phone numbers, followed by food and beverage manufacturer listings with complete contact information and data concerning the company. Volume II contains information on equipment, supplies and services; transportation firms; warehouse companies; and wholesalers and distributors. Volume III comprises broker companies, importers and exporters, consumer food and beverage catalogs, and industry resources. Fifteen indexes are specific to individual chapters and are arranged by geographic region or product type.
CHIP
R368.382 DI	Dictionary of health insurance and managed care / David Edward Marcinko, editor-in-chief. -- Springer Pub. Co., c2006. -- 360 p.
With 5,015 definitions, 3,010 abbreviations and acronyms, and a collection of 2,015 resources, readings and nomenclature derivatives, this dictionary contains more than 10,000 entries that cover the language of every health care industry sector. It will be helpful to the layman, purchaser, and benefits manager; physician, provider, and health care facility; or payer, intermediary, and insurance professional. New terminology and current definitions are highlighted. Terminology from the recent past still in colloquial use is included.. Entries contain examples and cross-references. There is also a list of easily confused acronyms and abbreviations. The entries are succinct and do not require a background in either insurance or medical terminology, making this dictionary accessible enough to serve students and general readers. (First use in GPL catalog of subject heading: Insurance, Health--Dictionaries.; Managed care plans (Medical care)--Dictionaries.)
R612.3 HAN	Handbook of nutrition and food -- 2nd ed. -- / edited by Carolyn D. Berdanier, Johanna Dwyer, Elaine B. Feldman. -- CRC Press, c2008. -- 1265 p.
Part 1 of this book has 5 chapters relating to food in general from various perspectives. Part 2 contains 7 chapters focusing on the science of nutrition. Part 3 contains 8 chapters discussing nutritional need throughout the life cycle and under special circumstances. Part 4 contains 17 chapters focusing on nutrition assessment on the national level. Part 5 contains 38 chapters dealing with a wide variety of clinical topics having nutritional implications. Chapters include references. There are many charts, diagrams, illustrations, and tables throughout the book. There is also an index.
R616.9 EME	Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues -- 2nd ed. --/ edited by Felissa R. Lashley and Jerry D. Durham. -- Springer Pub. Co., c2007. -- 591 p.
This book is written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of emerging infectious diseases, their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment. There are 3 main parts plus appendixes. Part 1 introduces the diseases, microbial resistance, and categories. Part 2 examines 20 specific diseases such as SARS, Ebola, fungal infections, West Nile Virus, Monkeypox, etc.. Part 3 covers special considerations such as travel, bioterrorism, possible future developments, etc.. Four appendixes cover diseases according to organism, modes of transmission, prevention, and resources. There are a glossary and an index.
OFFICE ADL
021.7 IMH	Library contests : a how-to-do-it manual / Kathleen R.T. Imhoff, Ruthie Maslin. -- Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2007. -- 182 p. (How-to-do-it manuals ; no. 152)
This book is designed for staff at all levels. It offers clear, detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to develop and run a library contest. Veteran advice is provided along with real-world examples. The 9 steps to a successful contest are each discussed in a separate chapter. The book is well illustrated with sample forms and documents, logos, photos of events such as parties, bookmarks, ads, posters, etc. There are also a bibliography, resource list, and index.