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ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States 1st-- ed.
Published: Bernan Press, 2013Contents: “…Preface -- History of-the statistical abstract -- New and deleted tables -- Guide to tabular presentation -- Section 1: Population: -- Estimates and projection by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin -- States, metropolitan areas, cities -- Mobility status -- Profiles of elderly, racial, and Hispanic-origin populations -- Native and foreign-born populations -- Immigration -- Ancestry, languages -- Marital status and households -- Religion -- Section 2: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces: -- Births -- Sexuality and family planning -- Life expectancy -- Deaths -- Marriages and divorces -- Section 3: Health And Nutrition: -- National health expenditure accounts -- Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP -- Health insurance -- Healthcare industry revenue and employment -- Hospitals and healthcare utilization -- Health measures -- Food consumption, nutrition -- Section 4: Education: -- Overview: All levels of education -- School readiness -- Primary and secondary schools -- Higher education -- School crime and safety -- Libraries -- Section 5: Law Enforcement, Courts, And Prisons: -- Crimes and crime rates -- Law enforcement and arrests -- Courts -- Juveniles, child abuse -- Prisoners and inmates -- Fire departments and property losses -- Section 6: Geography And Environment: -- Land and water -- Air quality -- Municipal hazardous waste -- Weather -- Conservation -- Section 7: Elections: -- Voter registration and vote results -- Campaign finances -- Section 8: State And Local Government Finances And Employment: -- Governmental units -- Aid to state and local governments -- State and local governments -- Local government finances -- Employment and payroll -- Section 9: Federal Government Finances And Employment: -- Budget receipts, outlays, debt -- Income taxes -- Federal employment, payroll, and facilities -- Section 10: National Security And Veterans Affairs: -- National defense outlays, expenditures, personnel -- Military manpower --Military sales and assistance -- Veterans -- Homeland security -- Section 11: Social Insurance And Human Services: -- Government transfer payments -- Social security, retirement funds, and other income assistance -- Federal food programs and family assistance -- Child care, child support -- Social services providers -- Section 12: Labor Force, Employment, And Earnings: -- Labor force status -- Occupations and employment projections -- Unemployment -- Establishments -- Compensation and hours worked -- Benefits -- Injuries -- Union membership -- Section 13: Income, Expenditures, Poverty, And Wealth: -- Gross domestic product -- Personal and household income -- Consumer expenditures -- Money income -- Poverty status -- Wealth -- Section 14: Prices: -- Consumer price index -- Cost of living index -- Producer price index -- Section 15: Business Enterprise: -- Sole proprietors, partnerships, corporations -- Establishments, employees, payroll -- Firms, births, deaths, expansions and contractions -- Women- and minority-owned businesses -- Bankruptcy, patents -- Investment, capital expenditures -- Economic indicators -- Corporate profits -- Multinationals -- Section 16: Science And Technology: -- Research and development funds, outlays -- Science and engineering degrees -- Science and engineering employment -- Space program -- Section 17: Agriculture: -- Farms and farmland -- Farm balance sheet, income -- Agricultural exports and imports -- Crops, livestock -- Section 18: Forestry, Fishing, And Mining: -- Natural resource-related industries -- Timber, lumber -- Fishery -- Mining, minerals, and energy resources -- Section 19: Energy And Utilities: -- Energy production, consumption -- Energy expenditures and trade -- Crude oil -- Nuclear -- Renewable energy -- Electric power -- Gas and other utilities -- Section 20: Construction And Housing: -- Construction industry indicators -- Home sales and prices -- Housing supply -- Housing occupancy and tenure -- Home improvements -- Nonresidential construction -- Section 21: Manufactures: -- Manufacturing summary -- Hours and earnings of production workers -- Shipments, inventories, new orders, and finances -- Industry reports by subject and subsector -- Section 22: Wholesale And Retail Trade: -- Wholesale trade -- Retail trade -- Section 23: Transportation: -- Transportation system -- Air transportation -- Water transportation and port traffic -- Highways -- Motor vehicle registrations and fuel consumption -- Motor vehicle accidents -- Urban transit and commuting -- Trucks, railroads, and pipelines -- Postal service -- Section 24: Information industries -- Publishing: newspapers, books and online -- Recording media and broadcasting -- Telecommunications -- Internet access and use -- Libraries -- Section 25: Banking, Finance, And Insurance: -- Establishments, receipts -- Flow of funds, financial assets, and liabilities -- Financial institutions -- Payment instruments, credit and debit cards -- Consumer credit, mortgage debt -- Money stock, interest rates -- Stocks and bonds, equity ownership, mutual funds -- Insurance and real estate -- Section 26: Arts, Recreation, And Travel: -- Employees, establishments, and payroll -- Performing arts -- Leisure activities -- Sports -- Parks and wildlife activities -- Travel -- Section 27: Accommodation, Food Services, And Other Services: -- Section 28: Foreign Commerce And Aid: -- International transactions -- Foreign investments -- Foreign grants and credits -- Exports and imports -- Section 29: Puerto Rico And The Island Areas: -- Section 30: International Statistics: -- World population, vital statistics -- Economic measures -- Labor force -- Agriculture -- Energy and environment -- Technology -- Finance -- Appendix 1: Guide to sources of statistics, state statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts -- Appendix 2: Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas: concepts, components, and population -- Appendix 3: Limitations of the data -- Appendix 4: Weights and measures -- Index.…”Description: volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
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Heritable human genome editing
Published: the National Academies Press, 2020Description: xviii, 219 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.Book -
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Bulls, bears, boom, and bust : a historical encyclopedia of American business concepts
Published: ABC-CLIO, 2007Contents: c2006.Description: xiii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Encyclopedia of measurement and statistics
Published: SAGE Publications, 2007Contents: Table of contentsDescription: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Hackers and hacking : a reference handbook
Published: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013Contents: “…-- Conclusion -- References -- Perspectives: -- Protecting critical infrastructures / Bob Radvanosky -- Examining social dynamics and malware secrets to mitigate net-centric attacks / Ziming Zhao and G-J Ahn -- Role of nation-states in cyberattacks / Max Kilger -- Case for strong data breach notification legislation / Douglas E Salane -- Data breach notification legislation -- Need for strong, broad-based consumer protections -- Data breach costs -- Why attempts at federal legislation fall short -- Concluding remarks -- Criminologist's perspective on the implications of criminological research for policies and practices aimed at addressing hacking and malware infection / Adam M Bossler: -- Implications for parental and school practices -- Policy implications for law enforcement -- Hacking and criminality / Nathan Fisk -- Life cycle of a botnet / Aditya K Sood and Richard J Enbody -- Taking the fun out of playtime: real crime and video games / Rob D'Ovidio, Murugan Anandarajan, and Alex Jenkins: -- Looking at crime in video games through the lens of routine activities theory -- Profiles -- Data And Documents: -- Anti-phishing working group: phishing activity trends report, second quarter 2012 -- Malware domain list -- Ponemon Institute Study: 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States -- Symantec: Internet Security Threat Report 2011 -- Closer look at corporate and governmental data theft on a global basis: 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: -- On-land and online real-world context -- Report's main findings -- Report conclusions -- References -- Resources: -- Print: Books -- Print: Magazines, white papers, news, and downloadable articles -- Nonprint: Hacking Websites -- Nonprint: Hacking-related films and learn how-to-hack videos -- Nonprint: Websites of companies offering antivirus software -- Nonprint: Websites of companies offering firewalls -- Nonprint: Websites of companies offering intrusion-detection systems -- Nonprint: U S government agencies and independent organizations fighting malicious hacking -- Chronology: -- Prehistory (1800-1969) -- 1815 to mid-1800s -- 1920s-1950s -- Elder days (1970-1979) -- Golden Age (1980-1989) -- Great hacker wars and hacker activism (1990-2000) -- Fear of a cyber-apocalypse era (2001-present) -- Glossary -- About the authors -- Index.…”Description: xx, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Environment & conservation (1791-2015) [First edition].
Published: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Grey House Publishing, 2016Contents: “…John Wesley Powell: Canyons of the Colorado ; An Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park ; Carl Schurz: "On the Need for Federal Forest Conservation" ; William T. …”Description: xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Propaganda and mass persuasion : a historical encyclopedia, 1500 to the present
Published: ABC-CLIO, 2003Contents: “…Abolitionism/Antislavery Movement -- Abortion -- ADL (Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith) -- Advertising -- Africa -- All Quiet on the Western Front -- Anglo-Boer War -- Anti-Semitism -- Arab World -- Architecture -- Art -- Atrocity Propaganda -- Australia -- Austrian Empire -- Balkans -- Battleship Potemkin -- BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) -- Beaverbrook, Max -- The Big Lie -- The Birth of a Nation -- BIS (British Information Services) -- Black Propaganda -- Blair, Tony -- Bosnian Crisis and War -- Bracken, Brendan -- Brainwashing Britain -- Britain -- British Empire -- Bryce Report -- Canada Capa, Robert -- Capra, Frank -- Caribbean -- Cartoons -- Casablanca -- Castro, Fidel -- Censorship -- China -- Chomsky, Noam -- Churchill, Winston -- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) -- Civil Defense Civil Rights Movement -- Civil War, English -- Civil War, Spanish -- Civil War, United States -- Clinton, William Jefferson -- CNN -- Coins Cold War -- Cold War in the Middle East -- Comintern -- Communist Manifesto, The -- Counterinsurgency CPI (Committee on Public Information) Creel, George -- Crimean War -- Crossman, Richard -- Cultural Propaganda David, Jacques-Louis -- Defoe, Daniel -- Disinformation -- Drugs -- Eisenstein, Sergei -- Elections -- Elections (Britain) -- Elections (Israel) -- Elections (United States) -- Elizabeth I -- Engels, Friedrich -- Environmentalism Exhibitions and World's Fairs Fakes Falklands/Malvinas War -- Fascism, Italian -- Film (Documentary) -- Film (Feature) -- Film (Nazi Germany) -- Film (Newsreels) -- Flagg, James Montgomery -- France -- Freedom Train -- Friedan, Betty -- Funerals -- Gandhi, Mohandas K. -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Garvey, Marcus -- Germany -- Goebbels, Joseph -- Goya -- Gray Propaganda -- Greece -- The Green Berets -- Grierson, John -- Guernica -- Gulf War -- Health -- Hearst, William Randolph -- Herzl, Theodor -- Hitler, Adolf -- Holocaust Denial -- Horst Wessel Lied -- Hussein, Saddam -- Ignatius of Loyola, Saint -- Indian Subcontinent -- Indonesia -- Intelligence -- International (Communist and Socialist) -- "The Internationale" -- Internet -- Iran -- IRD (Information Research Department) -- Ireland -- Israel -- Italy -- "J'Accuse" -- Japan -- John Bull -- Jud Süss -- Kennedy, John F. -- KGB -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Korea -- Korean War -- Kosovo Crisis and War -- Labor/Antilabor -- Laden, Osama bin -- Latin America -- Leaflet Lenin -- Vladimir Ilyich -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Livingston, William -- London Can Take It -- Long, Huey -- Lord Haw -- Haw -- Luther, Martin -- Malcolm X -- Mao Zedong -- "La Marseillaise" -- Marshall Plan -- Marx, Karl -- McCarthy, Joseph R. -- Mein Kampf -- Memorials and Monuments -- Mexico -- Milton, John -- Mission to Moscow -- MoI (Ministry of Information) -- Morale -- Murdoch, Rupert -- Murrow, Edward R. -- Music Mussolini, Benito -- NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) -- Napoleon -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by himself. -- Nast, Thomas -- Neo-Militia Groups -- Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg -- New Zealand -- Nixon, Richard -- Northcliffe, Lord -- Novel -- Oates, Titus -- Okhrana Olympics -- Opinion Polls -- Orwell, George -- Ottoman Empire/Turkey -- OWI (Office of War Information) -- Pacific/Oceania -- Paine, Thomas -- Peace and Antiwar Movements -- Peace and Antiwar Movements -- Perón, Juan Domingo -- and Eva Duarte -- Philippines -- Photography -- The Plow That Broke the Plains -- Poetry -- Poland -- Portraiture -- Portugal -- Postage Stamps -- Posters -- Pravda -- Prisoners of War -- Propaganda, Definitions of Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- Psychological Warfare -- Public Diplomacy -- PWE -- Quotations from Chairman Mao -- Radio (Domestic) -- Radio (International) -- Raemakers, Louis -- eagan, Ronald -- Reeducation -- Reefer Madness -- Reformation and Counter-Reformation Reith -- Lord John -- Religion Revolution, American, and War of Independence -- Revolution, French -- Revolution, Russian -- FE/RL -- Riefenstahl, Leni -- Riis, Jacob -- RMVP (Reichministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda) -- Rockwell, Norman -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- Rumor -- Russia -- Satellite Communications -- Scandinavia -- Shakespeare, William -- Silent Spring -- Southeast Asia -- Spain -- Spanish-American War -- Sport -- Stalin, Joseph -- Suez Crisis -- Sukarno -- Switzerland -- Television -- Television (News) -- Temperance -- Terrorism -- Terrorism, War on -- Thatcher, Margaret -- Theater -- Tokyo Rose -- Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) -- Trotsky, Leon -- Uncle Sam -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- United Nations -- United States -- United States (Progressive Era) -- USIA (United States Information Agency) -- Vietnam -- Vietnam War -- VOA (Voice of America) -- The War Game -- White Propaganda -- Why We Fight -- Wick, Charles Z. -- Wilkes, John -- Women's Movement: European -- Women's Movement: Precursors -- Women's Movement: First Wave/Suffrage -- Women's Movement: Second Wave/Feminism -- World War I -- World War II (Britain) -- World War II (Germany) -- World War II (Japan) -- World War II (Russia) -- World War II (United States) Zimmermann Telegram -- Zinoviev Letter -- Zionism.…”Description: xxi, 479 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Documents of American history Ninth edition.
Published: Appleton-Century-Crofts Educational Divisions Meredith Corporations, 1973Description: xxiii, 815 pages ; 24 cm.Book