Geo-Data: World Geographical Encyclopedia (3rd Edition)
It achieves its purpose in an easy-to-use alphabetical
arrangement for all of the world's 207 countries and dependencies. Each entry
begins with the key facts about that country including longest rivers and
highest mountains and other key statistics. All place-names and geographical
features such as mountains and lakes have been listed in the most easily
recognized versions of their names.
Psychology Basics
This revised title in the Magill's Choice series features 127 essays.
One-third of these topics did not appear in the previous edition of
Psychology Basics. The remaining two-thirds have the same or similar
titles but were either newly commissioned for the revision of the
larger encyclopedia or feature updated text--bringing them in line with
the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association's
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR
(2000)--and "Sources for Further Study" sections offering the latest
editions and scholarship. Additions to the Revised Edition include new
top matter, tailored subheadings guiding readers through the text,
photographs, helpful lists of diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV-TR,
and an appendix Biographical List of
PSYCHOLOGISTS
with brief profiles of major figures in the field, both past and
present. As a result, Psychology Basics, Revised Edition supersedes the
previous Psychology Basics and should prove to be even more valuable.
This book written by Mark Juergensmeyer, the Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, sets out to explore why, in a few extreme instances, religion is used to justify terrorism. "Terror in the Mind of God" was published in 2000, before the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, but it is extremely relevant to today's headlines...
After The Beginning In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years
ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An
immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere,
creating space where there was no space and time where there was no
time. In the intense fire just after the beginning, the lightest
elements were forged, later to form primordial clouds that eventually
evolved into galaxies, stars, and planets. This evolution is the story
told in this fascinating book. Interwoven with the storyline are short
pieces on the pioneering men and women who revealed those wonders to us.
