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1 online resource (4 volumes (1 volume, 1480 pages)) : illustrations |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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| Contents |
v. 1. AARP -- Abortion -- Abortion Laws -- Absenteeism -- Abstinence -- Acceptable Risk -- Access to Health Services -- Accountability -- Accreditation of Local and State Health Departments -- Accreditation of Public Health Training Programs -- Acculturation -- Acid Rain -- Acute Respiratory Diseases -- Addiction and Habituation -- Adherence Or Compliance Behavior -- Administration For Children and Families -- Adolescent Smoking -- Adolescent Violence -- Advertising of Unhealthy Products -- African Americans -- Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality -- Agency For Toxic Substances and Disease Registry -- Aging of Population -- Air Quality Index -- Airborne Particles -- Alcohol Use and Abuse -- Alma-Ata Declaration -- Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Ambient Air Quality (Air Pollution) -- Ambient Water Quality -- American Association of Public Health Dentistry -- American Association of Public Health Physicians -- American Cancer Society -- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine -- American College of Preventive Medicine -- American Heart Association -- American Indians and Alaska Natives -- American Journal of Public Health -- American Lung Association -- American Medical Association -- American Public Health Association -- Ames Test -- Analysis of Variance -- Anorexia -- Anthrax -- Anthropology in Public Health -- Antibiotics -- Antibody, Antigen -- Antisepsis and Sterilization -- Antisocial Behavior -- Arboviral Encephalitides -- Armed Forces Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs -- Arms Control -- Arsenic -- Asbestos -- Asian Americans -- Assessment of Health Status -- Assimilation -- Association of Schools of Public Health -- Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors -- Association of State and Territorial Health of ficials -- Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine -- Assurance of Laboratory Testing Quality -- Asthma -- Atherosclerosis -- Atmosphere -- Attitudes -- Audiotapes and Videotapes -- Automotive Emissions -- Autonomy -- Baby Bottle Tooth Decay -- Barefoot Doctors -- Barrier Nursing -- Bayes, Thomas -- Bayes' Theorem -- Behavior, Health-Related -- Behavioral Change -- Behavioral Determinants -- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System -- Behavioral Strategies For Reducing Traffic Crashes -- Beneficence -- Benefit-Cost Analysis -- Benefits, Ethics, and Risks -- Benzene -- Bereavement -- Beveridge, William -- Bias -- Biculturalism -- Billings, John Shaw -- Bills of Mortality -- Binomial Distribution -- Bioavailability -- Biodiversity -- Biological Determinants -- Biological Oxygen Demand -- Biological Warfare -- Biostatistics -- Birth Certificates -- Birthrate -- Black Death -- Black Magic and Evil Eye -- Block Grants For Public Health -- Blood Lead -- Blood Lipids -- Blood Pressure -- Blood-Borne Diseases -- Blot, Western -- Boards of Health -- Botulism -- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy -- Breast Cancer -- Breast Cancer Screening -- Breast Self-Examination -- Bronchitis -- Brownfields -- Brucellosis -- Budget -- Built Environment -- Bureau of The Census -- Campylobacter Infection -- Canadian International Development Agency -- Canadian Task Force On Preventive Health Care -- Cancer -- Candidiasis -- Carbon Monoxide -- Carcinogen -- Carcinogen Assessment Groups -- Carcinogenesis -- Cardiovascular Diseases -- Careers in Public Health -- Caries Prevention -- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Cumulative Trauma -- Carrier -- Carrying Capacity -- Carson, Rachel -- Case-Control Study -- Cataract -- Catastrophe Theory -- Causality, Causes, and Causal Inference -- Causes of Death -- Census -- Center For Mental Health Services -- Center For Substance Abuse Prevention -- Centers For Disease Control and Prevention -- Certification of Causes of Deaths -- Certification of Public Health Workers -- Cervical Cancer -- Chadwick, Edwin -- Chaos Theory -- Chernobyl -- Chewing and Smokeless Tobacco, Snuff -- Chicken Pox and Shingles -- Child Care, Daycare -- Child Health Services -- Child Mortality -- Child Welfare -- Childhood Injury -- Children's Environmental Health Initiative -- Child-Resistant Packaging -- Chinese Traditional Medicine -- Chi-Square Test -- Chlamydia -- Chlorination -- Chlorofluorocarbons -- Cholera -- Cholesterol Test -- Chronic Illness -- Chronic Respiratory Diseases -- Cirrhosis -- Citizens Advisory Boards -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Classification of Disease -- Clean Air Act -- Clean Indoor Air Ordinances -- Clean Water Act -- Clerical Work -- Climate Change and Human Health -- Clinical Breast Examination -- Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act -- Clinical Preventive Services -- Coalitions, Consortia, and Partnerships -- Cocaine and Crack Cocaine -- Codes of Conduct and Ethics Guidelines -- Cohort Life Tables -- Cohort Study -- Cold Chain -- Colorectal Cancer -- Common Vehicle Spread -- Communicable Disease Control -- Communication For Health -- Communication Theory -- Communications As A Career -- Community and Migrant Health Centers -- Community Dental Preventive Programs -- Community Health -- Community Health Report Cards -- Community Mental Health Centers -- Community Mental Health Services -- Community Organization -- Community Psychology -- Community Water Fluoridation -- Complete Blood Count -- Computer Programming -- Condoms -- Confidentiality -- Conflicts of Interests -- Confounding, Confounding Factors -- Congenital Anomalies -- Contact -- Contagion -- Contingency Table -- Continuous Quality Assessment -- Continuous Quality Improvement -- Contraception -- Cordon Sanitaire -- Coronary Artery Disease -- Correlation Coefficient -- Cost-Effectiveness -- Council On Education For Public Health -- Council On Linkages -- Counseling -- Counter-Marketing of Tobacco -- Crime -- Crisis Counseling -- Cross Infection -- Cross-Cultural Communication, Competence -- Cross-Sectional Study -- Cryptosporidiosis -- Cultural Anthropology -- Cultural Appropriateness -- Cultural Factors -- Cultural Identity -- Cultural Norms -- Customs -- Cytomegalovirus Disease |
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v. 2. Darwin, Charles Robert -- Data Sources and Collection Methods -- Decentralization and Community Health -- Dementia -- Demographic Transition -- Demographic Trap -- Demography -- Dental Fluorosis -- Dental Sealants -- Dependency Ratio -- Depression -- Descriptive Study -- Diabetes Mellitus -- Diagnostic Sonography -- Diagnostic Testing For Communicable Disease -- Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations -- Diffusion Theory -- Dioxins -- Diphtheria -- Diphtheria Vaccine -- Director of Health -- Disease Prevention -- Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water -- Dissolved Oxygen -- Dissolved Solids -- Dix, Dorothea -- Domestic Violence -- Doubling Time -- Dracunculosis -- Drinking Water -- Drug Abuse Resistance Education (Dare) -- Drug Resistance -- E. Coli -- Eating Disorders -- Ecological Fallacy -- Ecological Footprint -- Economics of Health -- Ecosystems -- Edentulism -- Ehrlich, Paul -- Electrocardiography -- Electromagnetic Fields -- Emerging Infectious Diseases -- Emissions Trading -- Emphysema -- Enabling Factors -- Endangered Species Act -- Endocrine Disruptors -- Energy -- Enforcement of Retail Sales of Tobacco -- Engineer, Public Health Career -- Environmental Determinants of Health -- Environmental Impact Statement -- Environmental Justice -- Environmental Movement -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Enzyme Immunoassay -- Epidemic Intelligence Service -- Epidemic Theory: Herd Immunity -- Epidemics -- Epidemiologic Surveillance -- Epidemiologic Transition -- Epidemiologist -- Epidemiology -- Equity and Resource Allocation -- Eradication of Disease -- Ergonomics -- Essential Public Health Services -- Ethics of Public Health -- Ethnicity and Health -- Ethnocentrism -- Eugenics -- Evaluation of Public Health Programs -- Evidence-Based Medicine -- Exposure Assessment -- Fair Labor Standards Act -- Faith Healers -- Faith-Based Organizations -- Family Health -- Family Planning Behavior -- Famine -- Farm Injuries -- Farr, William -- Fats -- Fecundity and Fertility -- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- Fetal Death -- Fiber -- Field Survey -- Filth Diseases -- Finance As A Career -- Finlay, Carlos -- Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody Absorption -- Folic Acid -- Folk Medicine -- Food and Drug Administration -- Food-Borne Diseases -- Foods and Diets -- Formaldehyde -- Fracastoro, Girolamo -- Framingham Study -- Frank, Johann Peter -- Fraud and Misrepresentation -- Frost, Wade Hampton -- Fuel Additives -- Functional Capacity -- Fungal Infections -- Fungicides -- Future of Public Health -- Gallstones -- Game Theory -- Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers -- Gateway Drug Theory -- Gender and Health -- Genes -- Genetic Disorders -- Genetics and Health -- Genital Herpes -- Genitourinary Disease -- Genocide -- Geography of Disease -- Geriatrics -- Gerontology -- Gingivitis -- Global Burden of Disease -- Glycosylated Hemoglobin -- Goiter -- Goldberger, Joseph -- Gonorrhea -- Graunt, John -- Groundwater -- Groundwater Contamination -- Gulf War Syndrome -- Gun Control -- Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Vaccine -- Halo Effect -- Hamilton, Alice -- Hawthorne Effect -- Hazardous Air Pollutants -- Hazardous Waste -- Hdl Cholesterol -- Head Start Program -- Health -- Health Administration, Career In -- Health Belief Model -- Health Books -- Health Care Financing -- Health Care Financing Administration -- Health Educator -- Health Goals -- Health Maintenance -- Health Maintenance Organization (Hmo) -- Health Measurement Scales -- Health Outcomes -- Health Promotion and Education -- Health Resources and Services Administration -- Health Risk Appraisal -- Healthy Communities -- Healthy People 2010 -- Healthy Start -- Hearing Disorders -- Hearing Protection -- Heavy Metals -- Hematocrit -- Hemoglobin -- Hemoglobinopathies -- Henle, Jacob -- Hepatitis A Vaccine -- Hepatitis B Vaccine -- Herbicides -- Hip Fractures -- Hippocrates of Cos -- Hispanic Cultures -- Historical Demography -- History of Public Health -- Hiv/Aids -- Holistic Medicine -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell -- Home Testing -- Homelessness -- Homicide -- Hookworm -- Hospital Administration -- Hotlines, Helplines, Telephone Counseling -- Human Development Index -- Human Genome Project -- Human Papillomavirus Infection -- Hyperlipidemia -- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis -- Hyperthyroidism -- Hypothyroidism -- Illness and Sick-Role Behavior -- Immigrants, Immigration -- Immunizations -- Impartiality and Advocacy -- In Vivo and in Vitro Testing -- Incidence and Prevalence -- Incubation Period -- Indigenous Populations -- Inequalities in Health -- Infant Mortality Rate -- Influenza -- Information Systems -- Information Technology -- Informed Consent -- Inhalable Particles (Sulfates) -- Initiator -- Injection Drug Use and Hiv Infection -- Institute of Medicine -- International Classification of Diseases -- International Development of Public Health -- International Development Research Centre -- International Health -- International Nongovernmental Organizations -- International Sanctions, Health Impact of -- Internet -- Iodine -- Iron -- Isolation -- Jenner, Edward -- Journal of Public Health Management and Practice -- Just-Say-No Campaign -- Koch, Robert -- Krebs Cycle |
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v. 3. Labor Unions -- Laboratory Practice Standards and Guidelines -- Laboratory Services -- Laboratory Technician -- Land Use -- Landfills, Sanitary -- Landmark Public Health Laws and Court Decisions -- Langmuir, Alexander -- Latent Period -- Laveran, Alphonse -- Lay Concepts of Health and Illness -- Ldl Cholestrol -- Lead -- Leadership -- Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van -- Legal Liability of Public Health of ficials -- Legislation and Regulation -- Leishmaniasis -- Leprosy -- Licensing -- Life Expectancy and Life Tables -- Lifestyle -- Lind, James -- Lipoproteins -- Lister, Joseph -- Louis, Pierre Charles Alexandre -- Love Canal -- Lung Cancer -- Malaria -- Malthus, Thomas Robert -- Mammography -- Managed Care -- Manson, Patrick -- Mantoux Test -- Marginal People -- Marijuana -- Mass Media -- Mass Media and Tobacco Control -- Mass Medication -- Matching -- Maternal and Child Health -- Maternal and Child Health Block Grant -- Maximum Tolerated Dose -- Measles -- Media Advocacy -- Medicaid -- Medical Genetics -- Medical Sociology -- Medical Waste -- Medicare -- Medication Abuse, Elderly -- Medline -- Melanoma -- Menstrual Cycle -- Mental Health -- Mental Retardation -- Mercury -- Mesothelioma -- Meta-Analysis -- Miasma Theory -- Microbiologist -- Micronutrient Malnutrition -- Migrant Workers -- Minamata Disease -- Mining -- Minority Rights -- Mobilizing For Action Through Planning and Partnerships -- Molecular Epidemiology -- Monitoring Drug Use -- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley -- Mortality Rates -- Multi-Drug Resistance -- Multifactorial Diseases -- Multiple Chemical Sensitivities -- Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trials -- Multiple Sclerosis -- Mumps -- Municipal Solid Waste -- Musculoskeletal Disorders -- National Academy of Sciences -- National Ambient Air Quality Standards -- National Association of County and City Health of ficials -- National Association of Local Boards of Health -- National Asthma Education and Prevention Program -- National Center For Health Statistics -- National Death Index -- National Disease and Therapeutic Index -- National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 -- National Health Insurance -- National Health Surveys -- National Health Systems -- National High Blood Pressure Education Program -- National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health -- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences -- National Institute On Aging -- National Institute On Drug Abuse -- National Institutes of Health -- National Health Systems -- Natural Disasters -- Needle Exchange Program -- Needlestick -- Neighborhood Health Centers -- Newborn Screening -- Nightingale, Florence -- Noise -- Nomogram -- Noncommunicable Disease Control -- Nongovernmental Organizations, United States -- Nonionizing Radiation -- Nonmaleficence -- Norm -- Normal Distributions -- Nosocomial Infections -- Not in My Backyard (Nimby) -- Notifiable Diseases -- Nuclear Power -- Nuclear Waste -- Nuisance Abatement -- Nurse -- Nursing Homes -- Nutrition -- Nutrition in Health Departments -- Observational Studies -- Occupational Disease -- Occupational Lung Disease -- Occupational Safety and Health -- Occupational Safety and Health Administration -- Ocean Dumping -- Odds Ratio -- Office On Smoking and Health -- Official U.S. Health Agencies -- Oil Spills -- Onchocerciasis -- One-Hit Model -- Ophthalmia Neonatorum -- Oral Cancer -- Oral Health -- Organochlorines -- Osteoarthritis -- Osteoporosis -- Ovarian Cancer -- Overwintering -- Pacific Islanders, Micronesians, Melanesians -- Pan American Health Organization -- Pap Smear -- Participation in Community Health Planning -- Pasteur, Louis -- Paternalism -- Paternity -- Pathogenic Organisms -- Patient Educational Media -- Pcbs -- Peer Review -- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (Pid) -- Penicillin -- Performance Standards For Public Health -- Performance Standards For State and Local Health Departments -- Perinatology -- Periodic Health Examination -- Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops) -- Personal Health Services -- Pertussis -- Pesticides -- Pharmaceutical Industry -- Phenylketonuria -- Philosophical Basis For Public Health -- Physical Activity -- Physician -- Pilot Study -- Plague -- Planned Approach to Community Health (Patch) -- Planned Parenthood -- Planning For Public Health -- Plaque -- Pneumococcal Vaccine -- Police Powers -- Policy For Public Health -- Poliomyelitis -- Politics of Public Health -- Pollution -- Population at Risk -- Population Attributable Risk -- Population Density -- Population Forecasts -- Population Growth -- Population Policies -- Population Pyramid -- Posters -- Pott, Percivall -- Poverty and Health -- Practice of Public Health -- Practice Standards -- Precautionary Principle -- Precede-Proceed Model -- Predisposing Factors -- Pregnancy -- Prejudice -- Prenatal Care -- Pressure Groups -- Prevention -- Prevention Block Grant -- Prevention Research -- Preventive Health Behavior -- Preventive Medicine -- Primary Care -- Primary Prevention -- Prions -- Prison Health -- Privacy -- Private Foundations -- Probability Model -- Prostate Cancer -- Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) -- Prostitution -- Psittacosis -- Psychology -- Psychology, Health -- Public Health and The Law -- Public Health Foundation -- Public Health Leadership Institute -- Public Health Nursing -- Public Health Practice Program of fice -- Pulmonary Function -- Q Fever -- Quality of Life -- Quarantine -- Rabies -- Race and Ethnicity -- Radiation, Ionizing -- Radio -- Radon -- Ramazzini, Bernardino -- Rates -- Rates: Adjusted -- Rates: Age-Adjusted -- Rates: Age-Specific -- Reckless Driving -- Record Linkage -- Reed, Walter -- Reference Laboratory -- Refugee Communities -- Regional Health Planning -- Registries -- Regulations Affecting Housing -- Regulations Affecting Restaurants -- Regulatory Authority -- Relapsing Fever -- Relative Risk -- Reporting, Mandatory -- Reproduction -- Research in Health Departments -- Residential Housing -- Retirement -- Retrovirus -- Rheumatoid Arthritis -- Ricketts, Howard -- Rickettsial Diseases -- Right to Health -- Risk Assessment, Risk Management -- Risk Communication -- Ross, Ronald -- Rpr Test -- Rubella -- Rural Public Health -- Rush, Benjamin |
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v. 4. Safety -- Safety Assessment -- Safety Factors -- Safety Standards -- Salmonellosis -- Sampling -- Sanger, Margaret -- Sanitarian -- Sanitation -- Sanitation in Developing Countries -- Schistosomiasis -- Schizophrenia -- School Health -- School Health Educational Media -- Screening -- Secondary Prevention -- Seer Program -- Segregation -- Self-Care Behavior -- Self-Help Groups -- Semmelweis, Ignaz -- Serological Markers -- Sewage System -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Shamanic Healing -- Shattuck, Lemuel -- Shigellosis -- Sick Building Syndrome -- Sickle Cell Disease -- Simon, John -- Skin Cancer -- Smallpox -- Smog (Air Pollution) -- Smoking Behavior -- Smoking Cessation -- Smoking: Indoor Restrictions -- Smuggling Tobacco -- Snow, John -- Social and Behavioral Sciences -- Social Assessment in Health Promotion Planning -- Social Class -- Social Cognitive Theory -- Social Determinants -- Social Health -- Social Marketing -- Social Medicine -- Social Networks and Social Support -- Social Work -- Society For Risk Analysis -- Society of Toxicology -- Sociology in Public Health -- Species Extinction -- Sports Medicine -- Standardization (of Rates) -- Staphylococcal Infection -- State and Local Health Departments -- State Programs in Tobacco Control -- Statistics For Public Health -- Stratification of Data -- Street Violence -- Streptococcal Infection -- Stress -- Stroke -- Structure Activity Relationships -- Substance Abuse, Definition of -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) -- Suicide -- Sulfur-Containing Air Pollutants (Particulates) -- Sunscreens -- Surgeon General -- Surveillance -- Survey Research Methods -- Surveys -- Sustainable Development -- Sustainable Health -- Sydenham, Thomas -- Sydenstricker, Edgar -- Syphilis -- Systems Thinking -- Tamoxifen -- Taxation On Tobacco -- Teenage Pregnancy -- Teratogens -- Terrorism -- Tertiary Prevention -- Testicular Self-Examination -- Tetanus -- Tetrachloroethylene -- Theories of Health and Illness -- Theory of Planned Behavior -- Theory of Reasoned Action -- Three Mile Island -- Threshold -- Thyroid Disorders -- Thyroid Function Tests -- Time Series -- Title V -- Tobacco Control -- Tobacco Control Advocacy and Policies-Canada -- Tobacco Control Advocacy and Policies-U.S. -- Tobacco Control Advocacy and Policies in Developing Countries -- Tobacco Sales to Youth, Regulation of -- Total Suspended Particles (TSP) -- Toxic Substances Control Act -- Toxic Torts -- Toxicology -- Toxoplasmosis -- Trachoma -- Traditional Health Beliefs, Practices -- Training For Public Health -- Transient Ischemic Attacks -- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy -- Transtheoretical Model of Stages of Change -- Travel Health Precautions -- Trichinosis -- Triglycerides -- Tropical Infectious Diseases -- Trypanosomiasis -- T-Test -- Tuberculosis -- Tularemia -- Typhoid -- Typhoid Mary -- Typhus, Epidemic -- Ultraviolet Radiation -- Uncertainty Analysis -- Unemployment and Health -- UNICEF -- Uninsurance -- United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees -- United States Agency For International Development (USAID) -- United States Consumer Product Safety Commission -- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- United States Department of Energy (USDOE) -- United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) -- United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) -- United States Public Health Service (USPHS) -- Universal Precautions -- Urban Health -- Urban Social Disparities -- Urban Sprawl -- Urban Transport -- Urinalysis -- Urine Cytology -- Urine Dipstick -- Uterine Cancer -- Values in Health Education -- VDRL Test -- Vector-Borne Diseases -- Veterinary Public Health -- Violence -- Virchow, Rudolph -- Vision Disorders -- Vital Statistics -- VLDL Cholesterol -- VO2 Max -- War -- Wastewater Treatment -- Water Quality -- Water Reuse -- Water Treatment -- Waterborne Diseases -- Well-Baby Clinics -- Wellness Behavior -- Widowhood -- Winslow, Charles-Edward Amory -- Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) -- Women's Health -- Workplace Smoking Policies and Programs -- Worksite Drug Testing -- World Bank -- World Health Organization -- Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) -- Yellow Fever -- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System -- Zero Population Growth -- Zoonoses |
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v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-K -- v. 3. L-R -- V. 4. S-Z |
| Summary |
Aimed at the nonspecialist reader interested in health and medicinal issues, this set is appropriate for upper class high school and university students, professionals, and public library patrons. Examines topics as broad in range as environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics, and diseases. Includes overviews, definitions, and biographical entries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Public health -- Encyclopedias.
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Public Health.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Breslow, Lester.
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| ISBN |
0028658884 (electronic bk.) |
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9780028658889 (electronic bk.) |
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