The Occupational Outlook Handbook

United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Occupational Outlook Handbook. 2008-09 edition.

Every two years the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, releases a new edition of The Occupational Outlook Handbook. The edition for 2008-09 has just come out. This useful guide analyzes hundreds of occupations, setting forth information about [...]

Official Congressional Directory

United States Congress. Official Congressional Directory. 2007-08 edition. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1888.

A basic handbook for students of Congress, the Congressional Directory, has been published since the nineteenth century. The Directory lists members of Congress by state with brief biographical annotations, office information, and descriptions of their districts by county and zip code. Information on congressional [...]

The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Ferrell, Robert H. The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Calvin Coolidge, a terse Vermonter and Amherst graduate, was president from 1923 through 1929.  This was an era marked by explosive increases in the number of telephones, automobiles, and radio receivers.  A Republican governing during an era of widespread prosperity, Coolidge’s fiscal [...]

Encyclopdia of Sociology

Borgatta, Edgar F. and Rhonda Montgomery. Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.

This five-volume subject-specific encyclopedia by MacMillan features 397 articles on subjects relevant to the social sciences. Glancing briefly at Volume 1, for instance, reveals articles on Behaviorism, Birth & Death Rates, British Sociology, Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Case Studies, Caste & [...]