| Encyclopedia of Disability | The Encyclopedia of Disability is a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historically grounded resource tool that guides the reader across fields, theories, debates, and practices, addressing the question: What is disability and why is it important in my life? An international editorial board of seventy-four editors from the Americas, Europe, Australia, India, Japan, and China, all experts in their own sub-fields of disability, developed these volumes. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Sociology/Anthropology |
| Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning | The Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning defines and applies the best practices of contemporary continuing education designed for adults in corporate settings, Open University settings, graduate coursework, and in similar learning environments. The Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning includes over 275 entries, each written by a specialist in that area, giving the reader comprehensive coverage of all aspects of distributed learning, including use of group processes, self-assessment, the life line experience, and developing a learning contract. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Education |
| Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration | The Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration as taught in preparation programs and practiced in schools and colleges today. It contains more than 600 entries, written by professors, graduate students, practitioners, and association officials. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Education |
| Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology | With more than 275 contributions, the Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology opens up the broad discipline of educational psychology to a wide and general audience. Written by experts in each area, the entries provide an overview and an explanation of the major topics in the field of human development. Educational psychology applies the knowledge from many different disciplines to the broad process of education, including human learning and development (across the life span), motivation, measurement and statistics, and curriculum and teaching. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Education |
| Encyclopedia of Environment and Society | The Encyclopedia of Environment and Society brings together issues, concepts, theories, examples, problems, and policies, with the goal of clearly explicating an emerging way of thinking about people and nature, in more than 1,200 entries written by experts from incredibly diverse fields. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Biological Science |
| Encyclopedia of Epidemiology | The Encyclopedia of Epidemiology presents information from the field of epidemiology in a less technical and accessible style and format. The 600+ entries cover every major facet of epidemiology, from risk ratios to case-control studies to mediating and moderating variables, and much more. Relevant topics from related fields such as biostatistics and health economics are also included. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Health |
| Encyclopedia of Evaluation | The Encyclopedia of Evaluation covers professional practice as well as academia and chronicles the development of the field: its history, key figures, theories, approaches, and goals. The entries document evaluation as a practice (methods, techniques, roles, people), as a profession (professional obligations, shared knowledge, ethical imperatives, events, places) and as a discipline (theories and models of evaluation, ontological and epistemological issues). ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Economics |
| Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science | By incorporating location as an essential but often overlooked characteristic of what we seek to understand in the natural and built environment, geographic information science (GIScience) and systems (GISystems) provide the conceptual foundation and tools to explore this new frontier. The Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science covers the essence of this new and expanding field, containing contributions from some of the best recognized scholars in GIScience as well as from experts in GIS' supporting disciplines who explore how their disciplinary perspectives are expanded within the context of GIScience. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.***
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| Encyclopedia of Governance | The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of political science, public administration, political economy, and sociology. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Political Science |
| Encyclopedia of Health & Aging | The Encyclopedia of Health & Aging captures new findings in the field as well as conceptual developments guiding research, practice, and policy. With more than 200 entries, it covers the biological, psychological, social, and economic aspects of health and aging and impacts within the health-care system. This encyclopedia also focuses heavily on geriatrics with respect to geriatric syndromes and common diseases of aging. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Health |
| Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior | The Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior covers all aspects of the dynamic domain of behavioral medicine: From adherence to a doctor's advice, to emotions and health, to obesity treatment and prevention, to women's health, and all topics in between. This encyclopedia aims to collect together in a single resource the knowledge generated by this interdisciplinary field, highlighting the links between science and practice. In it, scholars, health care practitioners and the general public will find information on topics such as physical activity, stress and health, smoking, pain management, social support and health, cardiovascular health, health promotion, and HIV/AIDS. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Health |
| Encyclopedia of Health Care Management | The Encyclopedia of Health Care Management is a comprehensive reference work on the business of health care, with information about a broad range of issues affecting every aspect of the industry and the people it serves, employs, and influences. It contains 600+ entries by expert contributors as well as tables on: Health Care Acronyms; Medical Degrees; Medical Legislation; Medical Organizations; and Medical Specialties. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Health |
| Encyclopedia of Homelessness | The Encyclopedia of Homelessness is the first systematic effort to organize and summarize what we know about this complex topic that impacts not only the homeless but all of society. The Encyclopedia focuses on the current situation in the United States with a comparative sampling of homelessness around the world. Key themes include: causes; lifestyle issues; health issues and services; history; legal issues and advocacy; government policies and programs; organizations; research approaches; service systems and settings; size and characteristics of the homeless population; public perceptions of homelessness; and world issues and perspectives. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Sociology/Anthropology |
| Encyclopedia of Human Development | The Encyclopedia of Human Development presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts from the fields of psychology, individual and family studies, and education in a way that is not too technical. With more than 600 entries, this encyclopedia covers topics as diverse as adolescence, cognitive development, education, family, gender differences, identity, longitudinal research, personality development, prenatal development, temperament, and more. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Psychology |
| Encyclopedia of Human Geography | With more than 300 entries written by an international team of leading authorities in the field, the Encyclopedia of Human Geography offers a comprehensive overview of the major ideas, concepts, terms, and approaches that characterize a notoriously diverse field. This multidisciplinary volume provides cross-cultural coverage of human geography as it is understood in the contemporary world and takes into account the enormous conceptual changes that have evolved since the 1970s, including a variety of social constructivist approaches. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Geography |
| Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West | The Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West -- through a combination of general entries, focused biographies, community histories, economic enterprise analyses, and demographic studies -- documents the history of the American West as an important part of the American experience. The encyclopedia examines the settling of the West and include coverage of movements of American Indians, African Americans, and the often-forgotten role of women in the West's development. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | History |
| Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology | With more than 400 entries, the Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology presents a thorough overview of the cross-disciplinary field of industrial and organizational psychology for students, researchers, and professionals in the areas of psychology, business, management, and human resources. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Psychology |
| Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice | The Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice provides more than 200 up-to-date, concise, and readable entries in a single, authoritative volume covering historical and contemporary theories, concepts, and real-world practices of juvenile justice in the United States. The entries address a broad range of issues and topics, such as alcohol and drug abuse, arson, the death penalty for juveniles, computer and Internet crime, gun violence, gangs, missing children, school violence, teen pregnancy, and delinquency theories. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Law Enforcement |
| Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives | The Encyclopedia of Law and Society is the largest comprehensive and international treatment of the law and society field, presenting interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics. By globalizing the encyclopedia's coverage, American and international law and society will be better understood within its historical and comparative context. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Law |
| Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement | The Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and international stages. This work provides readers with informed discussions on the practice and theory of policing in an historical and contemporary framework, covering subjects that are particular to the area of state and local, federal and national, and international policing. ***WIU ID required for off-campus access.*** | Law Enforcement |
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