Databases & E-Reference Materials

This encyclopedia's 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. Also includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.

This encyclopedia covers the major psychotherapies currently in practice as well as the classical approaches that laid the foundation for the various contemporary treatment approaches. In addition, the encyclopedia identifies the scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of the therapies and reviews the theoretical basis of each therapy.

Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.

Encyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. This reference work covers the origins, development, adaptation, influence, and interrelations of the many faiths practiced, including major world religions, new religious sects, cults, and religious movements that originated or had an influence in the United States.

A compendium of theory, design methods, and applications as well as an examination of technologies and future trends. Each article includes an overview of the subject, followed by in-depth descriptions of important theory, technology developments, and applications. Features such key topics as electromagnetics, wave propagation, RF circuits, RF receivers, microwave Antennas, CAD techniques and modeling, communications systems, radio technologies, remote sensing, and more.

A multidisciplinary text that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology. Topics covered include human cloning and stem cell research along with more traditional questions, such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion.

This encyclopedia covers the professional ethics of science and technology as well as the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society.

Covers the theories, techniques, and applications of separation science. Topics include an overview of the 12 main categories of separation techniques, technical descriptions of particular techniques, and discussions on the application of these techniques from the micro to the macrochem and from the analytical laboratory bench to large-scale industrial processes.

Two volumes with over 600 entries that provide brief explanations of the vast number of ideas and concepts that make up the intellectual and scientific content in the area of social psychology.

Discusses the physical principles of rockets, satellites, and space stations as well as the effect of the space environment on human and other biological systems.