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Holocaust-Denial Literature: An Additional Bibliography, John A. Drobnicki Dec 1996

Holocaust-Denial Literature: An Additional Bibliography, John A. Drobnicki

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This bibliography is a supplement to an earlier one that was published in the Bulletin of Bibliography. Holocaust denial is a body of literature that seeks to prove that the Jewish Holocaust did not happen. This bibliography includes both works about Holocaust denial and works of Holocaust denial.


The Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide To Grassroots Organizations And Internet Resources In The Newly Independent States, John A. Drobnicki Dec 1996

The Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide To Grassroots Organizations And Internet Resources In The Newly Independent States, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book The Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources in the Newly Independent States.


Review Of The Book Hispanic Surnames And Family History, John A. Drobnicki Jul 1996

Review Of The Book Hispanic Surnames And Family History, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Hispanic Surnames and Family History.


Review Of The Book Information Services For People With Developmental Disabilities: The Library Manager’S Handbook, John A. Drobnicki Jul 1996

Review Of The Book Information Services For People With Developmental Disabilities: The Library Manager’S Handbook, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Information Services for People With Developmental Disabilities: The Library Manager’s Handbook.


Genealogical Resources On Chinese Names: An Annotated Bibliography, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao Jun 1996

Genealogical Resources On Chinese Names: An Annotated Bibliography, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao

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This annotated bibliography provides coverage of materials from the period between 1980 and 1995 and also includes important works of historical value published before 1980. The Wade-Giles system is used for the transliteration of Chinese materials. English publications that include Chinese characters transliterated by the author have those transliterations retained in the bibliographical annotations.Certain materials may have been omitted because the author is unaware of their existence or availability here in the United States.A great portion of the Chinese-language publications was found in the collection of Columbia University's C V Starr East Asian Library.


Relation Of Negative Affectivity To Self-Reports Of Job Stressors And Psychological Outcomes, Irvin Sam Schonfeld Jan 1996

Relation Of Negative Affectivity To Self-Reports Of Job Stressors And Psychological Outcomes, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

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A total of 250 new women teachers participated in a longitudinal study of the influence of negative affectivity (NA) on the relation of self-report work-environment measures to psychological outcomes. Three "neutrally worded" work-environment measures were specially constructed to minimize confounding with NA. The work-environment measures were moderately related to postemployment depressive symptoms, job satisfaction, and, among Whites but not among a principally Black and Hispanic subsample, motivation. Correlation and regression coefficients were largely unchanged when the preemployment psychophysiologic symptoms scale and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (L. S. Radloff, 1977), factors that tap NA, were controlled. Findings suggest NA …


Bliss: The Man And The Classification, John A. Drobnicki Jan 1996

Bliss: The Man And The Classification, John A. Drobnicki

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This paper discusses the career of Henry Evelyn Bliss, founder of the Bibliographic Classification, which is currently being revised. Dissatisfied with the current classification systems, Bliss devised his own, which was based on a main class order that provided for collocation of related classes. Although not currently used in the United States, the Bibliographic Classification continues to be utilized by approximately 50 libraries in the United Kingdom. Advantages and criticisms are presented for Bliss's system, which is often praised in library science textbooks, yet seldom used as the trend in libraries has been to either the Dewey Decimal or the …


Aids And Hiv Programs And Services For Libraries, John A. Drobnicki Jan 1996

Aids And Hiv Programs And Services For Libraries, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book AIDS and HIV Programs and Services for Libraries.


Women-Church And Egalitarianism: Revisioning "In Christ There Are No More Distinctions Between Male And Female", Susan A. Farrell Jan 1996

Women-Church And Egalitarianism: Revisioning "In Christ There Are No More Distinctions Between Male And Female", Susan A. Farrell

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This chapter from The Power of Gender in Religion (eds G.A. Weatherby and S.A. Farrell) illustrates how women in the Roman Catholic Church are expanding the roles of women and challenging the patriarchal and hierarchical Roman Catholic Church practices. They are accomplishing this through an umbrella organization of feminist groups which maintain their catholic identty while critiquing the church from within.


Higher-Order Categories In Brunei Dusun Ethnobotany: The Folk-Classification Of Rainforest Plants, Jay H. Bernstein Jan 1996

Higher-Order Categories In Brunei Dusun Ethnobotany: The Folk-Classification Of Rainforest Plants, Jay H. Bernstein

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Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris In Latin America, The Bronx, And The Ussr, Marc Edelman Jan 1996

Devil, Not-Quite-White, Rootless Cosmopolitan: Tsuris In Latin America, The Bronx, And The Ussr, Marc Edelman

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This autobiographical essay reflects on experiences with antisemitism in New York City, Mexico, Costa Rica, and the Soviet Union. It analyzes this material in relation to ethnographers' emotional life and subjectivity and the larger historical and political contexts of fieldwork.