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Chapters discuss topics related to the family and include annotated lists of resources, such as fiction, nonfiction, and nonprint materials, organizations, and hotlines. ... Read more

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The second most populous country in the West African subregion, Ghana is plagued by a population growth rate that far exceeds its economic growth rate. Hence, comprehensive action in family planning is needed to improve the country's social and economic well-being. Although studies on family planning and reproductive health are not lacking, the information is scattered. This annotated bibliography compiles the existing works on family planning and reproductive health in Ghana into a single resource guide, providing scholars and practitioners with quick access to a wide range of research materials. ... Read more

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America has no official royalty by design. Yet there have been the Roosevelts, the Adams, the Bushes, the wanabee Clintons and most intriguing of all - the Kennedys. The Kennedys have so far only reached the presidency once but the assassination of JFK and his brother Robert, and the trials and tribulations of the family members and society in general continue to fascinate the world. This new book presents more than 1200 citations of books and related materials arranged by family member. The accompanying CD-ROM offers ready access and easy searching. ... Read more

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The contemporary family is being distracted, disturbed and distraught by societal pressures from every direction. The nuclear family concept, believed crucial to child rearing, is becoming passe according to census data. Or has the wave of disruption to families crested? It is hoped that this bibliography will serve as a useful tool to researchers seeking further information on families and the pressures being exerted upon them in the 21st century. ... Read more

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With the emergence of fertility declines in the greater part of the developing world, study of the phenomenon has increased profoundly over the last three decades, and a voluminous amount of literature has emerged. Yet our knowledge of the decline is scattered in numerous publications, making sources difficult to find. This bibliography provides a guide to the literature on fertility decline in Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It will be an invaluable asset for population experts and students wishing to do research on fertility decline. ... Read more

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This comprehensive bibliography lists more than 700 books, journal articles, and dissertations on religion and aging. While most of the items are scholarly studies, works of interest to the general reader are also included. Detailed annotations describe the contents of each entry. The bulk of the material is from the Jewish and Christian traditions; however, the bibliography also treats writings from other faiths. A lucid introductory essay overviews trends in religion and aging and summarizes the contents of the bibliography. Thorough author and subject indexes conclude the work and add to its value as an indispensable reference on religion and the elderly. ... Read more

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The metrics in this report cover three year trends in the industry, broken out on a state-by-state basis. Analysis is based on data applied from all firms in our database (total 13million) which identify themselves in this primary line of business. Industry market vitality measures for each state are benchmarked against US averages for the industry, creating easy comparison of state-by-state performance. Industry sales are detailed for both company-wide headquarters data and locally generated sales levels. The report also compares proprietary BizMiner measures in each state and the US, including failure rates, entrepreneurial activity and new branch development rates in the industry.
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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on June 1, 2000. The length of the article is 555 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tailor Maternal Weight Gain to Prepregnancy BMI.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Kate Johnson
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2000
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 30Issue: 11Page: 38

Article Type: Brief Article, Statistical Data Included

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This is the first resource guide to provide information on research collections for all three Roosevelts. The volume covers U.S. repositories, including the large collections at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the FDR Library at Hyde Park, and the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University's Houghton Library, and smaller collections throughout the country. The book also covers collections in Great Britain and the new Roosevelt Research Center in the Netherlands. The guide details collections for easy access. ... Read more

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"Libraries serving Hispanic American clienteles and/or supporting programs in Latin american studies and linguistics will want to acquire Richard D. Wood's Hispanic First Names." Reference Books Bulletin ... Read more

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In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration began interviewing former slaves for their side of history, a project that would become one of the largest oral research projects on slavery. Forty years later, George P. Rawick compiled the thousands of interviews into the multi-volume series The American Slave. Published by Greenwood Press in the 1970s, the slave narratives have provided a valuable resource for historians and researchers, but they lacked a comprehensive name index. This volume indexes the slaves according to where they lived (as opposed to where they were interviewed), enabling researchers to locate slaves by state, county, or region, as well as by their master's name, their age, and the interviewer. ... Read more

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Long-overdue, makes Rawick accessible (finally!)
With the publication of Howard E. Potts, A Comprehensive Name Index forthe American Slave (1997), one formidable obstacle has been removed fromresearchers searching for slave interviews from particular localities orinterviews that relate to particular persons.The 42 volumes of Rawick'scollection of slave narratives has daunted researchers because of lack ofan index.Previously, the only way to find all interviews that related toa particular geographic area (for instance) was to read all 42 volumes,page by page.This book presents versions of the same database, sorted bydifferent fields, including name of interviewee, name of interviewer,county/counties and states in which the interviewee lived during slavery,name of former owner/s, age and birth year of interviewee. This index isa very serviceable tool for historians who may be writing local history andwho wish to gather testimony from a particular locale; likewise,biographers of particular slaves and slaveowners will find the bookindispensible.Researchers like myself who always pine for more will wishthat the compiler had indexed the names of ALL persons mentioned in theslave narratives, not just the interviewees and their former owners.Thereis still no subject index for this huge collection.Nevertheless, Pottshas provided the only practical key to an indispensible set of documents ofAmerican history. ... Read more

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Until recently, older men were not a social phenomenon commanding great attention. They constitute a distinct minority of the elderly. This is the first thorough bibliography on the topic, and it brings together more than 750 articles, organized by broad subject area. ... Read more

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A comprehensive guide to children's and adolescent fiction, traditional literature, and biography/autobiography dealing with the nationalities of the Soviet Union, this book is intended as a resource for teachers, librarians, and parents seeking to imbue young people with a sympathetic understanding of another culture. It indicates the breadth of publications in the field and offers guidance in selecting the most appropriate books. The annotated bibliography thoroughly describes 536 books written in or translated into English and published from 1900 to 1990, portraying the lives of Russian and Soviet immigrants in Europe and North America. The literature itself reflects more than a thousand years of history, from the establishment of Kievan Rus', the largest state of early-medieval Europe, through the Mongol invasion and the rise and fall of imperial Russia, to the establishment of the Soviet Union and the period of political and cultural ferment in the early 1990s. The sources are grouped according to major geographical and political regions (The Russian Federation; The Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Moldavia; Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan; Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and further divided by genres. Annotations generally provide plot summary, literary analysis and criticism, evaluation of illustrations, and information about literary and artistic awards. Reading and use levels are included with the citations. Indexes of author, translator, and illustrator, of titles, and of subjects are provided, with the latter referring to topical areas as well as historical periods and personages and geographical and political areas and terms. The volume introduction offers a survey of the Soviet lands and peoples and their literary activities, with special emphasis on literature for youth. ... Read more

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This comprehensive bibliography annotates articles dealing with black health published during three time periods: post reconstruction to the early 20th century, 1871-1919; the 1920s to 1950; and 1951-1960. The introduction reviews the literature that composes the bibliography and discusses health-related issues of blacks from slavery to the mid-20th century, placing the social context of black health and black health care inequities in the U.S. into perspective. This is a companion volume to Black American Health: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1987) which covers the 1970s and 1980s. ... Read more

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This literature review was undertaken in order to determine what caregivers needed to know about elderly sexuality, to determine the needs of elderly people related to their sexuality, and to determine how caregivers could best assist them in meeting those needs. In selecting materials to be annotated for this book, the first priority was given to empirical studies. Also included were articles by prominent practitioners and researchers interested in elderly sexuality, literature reviews, and books written for the lay population which are often cited in the professional literature. In addition to seeking knowledge about elderly sexuality and understanding attitudes about sexuality, this literature review sought information about measurement issues and measurement instruments frequently used in research within elderly populations. Also of interest were investigations of educational and training programs involving caregivers. ... Read more