Education; psychology; DK encyclopedias

Schools for all kinds of minds : boosting student success by embracing learning variation / Mary-Dean Barringer, Craig Pohlman, Michele Robinson ; foreword by Paul Orfalea. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

With the light : raising an autistic child / Keiko Tobe. New York : Yen Press, 2007-2010. (Publisher’s description)

Animals: a visual encyclopedia. New York: DK Pub., 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)  (DK encyclopedias are the ones with the incredibly detailed photographs.  They are generally written for children.  You can look for more of them here.)

Globalization; Social work; Political sociology

Globalization: encyclopedia of trade, labor, and politics / Ashish K. Vaidya, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Key concepts in anti-discriminatory social work / Toyin Okitikpi and Cathy Aymer. London: SAGE, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The handbook of political sociology: states, civil societies, and globalization / edited by Thomas Janoski … [et al.]. New York: Cambridge, 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Growing old; Poverty; State laws

Growing old in America / Barbara Wexler. Detroit, Mich. : Thomson/Gale Group, 2006. (Click here to access resource)

World poverty / Nancy Dziedzic. Detroit, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2007. (Click here to access resource)

National survey of state laws/ Richard A. Leiter, editor. 6th ed. Detroit : Thomson Gale, 2008. (Click here to access resource)

Alcatraz; U.S. transportation system; Social work

Alcatraz: the gangster years / David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Last exit: privatization and deregulation of the U.S. transportation system / Clifford Winston. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The survival guide for newly qualified child and family social workers: hitting the ground running / Helen Donnellan and Gordon Jack. Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Software licenses; The mafia; Domestic violence

The software license unveiled: how legislation by license controls software access / Douglas E. Phillips. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

History of the mafia / Salvatore Lupo ; translated by Antony Shugaar. New York : Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Intimate warfare: regarding the fragility of family relations / Martine Groen and Justine van Lawick. London : Karnac, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Social work

Maté, Gabor. In the realm of hungry ghosts: close encounters with addiction. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

McClennen, Joan C. Social work and family violence: theories, assessment, and intervention. New York, NY: Springer, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Nursing

Earle, Sarah, Carol Komaromy, and Caroline Bartholomew, eds. Death and dying: a reader. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Tantam, Digby, and Nick Huband. Understanding repeated self-injury: a multidisciplinary approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Resnick, Barbara, and Ethel Mitty, eds. Assisted living nursing: a manual for management and practice. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2009. (Publisher’s description)