Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical & Reference, April 14, 2014"

Career Information Center has been the one-stop resource for librarians, counselors, educators, and other job information providers for more than 20 years. It provides the most current information available on careers in the United States and Canada to people of all ages and at all stages of career development.

Sustainable development is essential to a future of reduced human suffering, higher quality of life, and ongoing sustenance for the planet's ecosystems. A two-volume encyclopedia containing more than 130 signed entries, Achieving Sustainability covers economic and environmental ideas, as well as governance, demographic, and socio-cultural aspects of the concept.

This third edition of Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America updates the essays in the second edition on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. It will also add cultures not covered in the second edition.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Consumer Health focuses on the U.S. healthcare system and the individual's experience with it. Entries cover topics related to the current state of health insurance, the various kinds and methods of its delivery, as well as the history of insurance and the evolution of our current for-profit system and the Healthcare legislation and reform.

This new fourth edition offers hundreds of revisions or addenda to entries from previous editions as well as over 100 new or rewritten entries on topics such as key cases in bioethics, the human biome, genetically modified foods, emergency preparedness and response, social justice, sustainability, chemical warfare and torture, among many others.

Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History is a six-volume set that explores the seminal events of human history that helped shape the world we live in today. Each volume is arranged chronologically and focused on one of the following 6 regions of the world: North America, South and Central America, Asia and Oceania, Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

Body Systems covers the systems of the human body and their role and functions both from an individual organ perspective and for each system as a whole. It also shows what occurs when systems are not functioning properly, due to injury, disease, or other causes.

The four volumes contain more than 800 entries, approximately 400 color images, and many informative illustrations and charts pertaining to herbs and flowers, therapies and procedures, nutrition, and diseases and conditions. More than 50 new entries were added, on topics ranging from cherry juice, modified citrus pectin, oleander, and horticultural therapy. And many new images, charts and illustrations, were added.

This volume covers full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events of Manifest Destiny and the westward expansion of the United States.

This volume representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events of the Reform era and the urbanization and economic growth of the eastern United States.

The Encyclopedia of Business and Finance is a two-volume complete reference covering five general areas: finance and banking; accounting; marketing; management; and information systems.

Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests provides in-depth coverage of approximately 600 surgical procedures, medical tests, and related topics such as anesthetics, common lab test and procedures, medications, and postoperative care.

Worldmark Modern Conflict and Diplomacy is a two-volume set that explores specific modern-day conflicts that have had a truly global impact, as well as the efforts and organizations focused on solving these conflicts.

The 5th edition has been completely updated and includes more than 75 new entries on key scientific topics in the news, including: DNA databanks, Crime Scene Investigations, Internet Search Engines, Podcasts, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Wireless Communications and much more.