Janice Dunham

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The Pocket Legal Companion to Patents: A Friendly Guide to Protecting and Profiting from Patents

Very useful for practical information, a patent overview, and the necessary specifics for people with a brainstorm concoction that they want to unleash on the market.
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Biomes and Ecosystems

A very clear, nontechnical presentation useful to high school and community college students encountering ecological concepts for the first time, who will love the online access that comes with this work. The volumes will double as a gazetteer for college and public library users.
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Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Vol. 7: China, India, and East and South East Asia: Assessing Sustainability

Greenwood's three-volume Encyclopedia of Sustainability can't match Berkshire's scope. Other comparable volumes concentrate on the problems, not the solutions, and Berkshire's own three-volume Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (2003) is a precursor. College students and the general public will profit from studying sustainability geographically in these volumes.
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Energy and Energy Use

These titles will appeal to high school through graduate students and to general readers, some of whom may prefer small, topical, paperback volumes, and libraries will appreciate the shorter volumes' lower cost. The best contemporary feature of encyclopedias is the multiple access points provided by digitization; these titles are available as ebooks (which cost the same as the paperback titles) but lack the wider access to the Salem Science database that is free with purchase of the hardcover set. Libraries that subscribe to the Gale Virtual Reference Library of Encyclopedias, however, will find similar material in its Environmental Encyclopedia.
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The Encyclopedia of Water Politics and Policy in the United States

Danver (social sciences, Walden Univ...
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Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

This encyclopedia constitutes a mammoth undertaking; the volumes, scholarship, and subject matter are all large...
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Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather

The first edition of this title was well reviewed and became an LJ Best Reference of 1996 selection...
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Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World

This is neither a biographical nor a historical encyclopedia, with coverage starting in 2000 and encompassing women's contemporary status in 15 categories: "Activism," "Arts," "Business," "Countries," "Education," "Environment," "Government," "Health," "Media," "Religion," "Science," "Sports," "Sexualities," "War," and "Women's Lives...
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Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief

Penuel (director, Ctr...
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