Northwest Missouri State University

Advocacy & Public Policy

Social policy for children & families: a risk and resilience perspective
Jenson, Jeffrey M. and Fraser, Mark W.   

Child welfare for the twenty-first century: a handbook of practices, policies, and programs
Mallon, Gerald P. and McCartt, Peg 

Mending broken families: social policies for divorced families : how effective are they?
Douglas, Emily M.

Child health in America: making a difference through advocacy
Palfrey, Judith.

Family and aging policy
Caro, Francis G.

Child protection
Munro, Eileen

Making an impact : children and domestic violence : a reader
Hester, Marianne

Family and community policy : strategies for civic engagement
Anderson, Carol L.  

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Adult Learning

Global issues and adult education : perspectives from Latin America, Southern Africa, and the United States
Merriam, Sharan; Courtenay, Bradley; Cervero, Ronald; McClure, Gail

Adult learning in community
Stein, David; Imel, Susan

Best practices in adult learning : a self-evaluation workbook for colleges and universities
Flint, Thomas; Council for Adult and Experiential Learning      

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults
Vella, Jane

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Background and Philosophy

Themes in Family and Consumer Sciences: A Book of Readings 2001
Editors for the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences selected readings in the following areas: historical roots; human ecosystem and systems theory; trends/forecasts/images of the future; human needs and quality of life; community development; nutrition/food/health and wellness; aging; family economics and resource management; housing and equipment; impact of technology; textiles, apparel, and design; FCS education; families, youth and children; diversity; global perspectives; public policy; ethics; leadership and professional conduct; leader profiles.

From Marriage to The Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work

The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families

Leadership for change : national standards for family and consumer sciences education

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Child & Family Studies

Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future
"The Handbook of Contemporary Families explores how families have changed in the last 30 years and speculates about future trends. Editors Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, along with a multidisciplinary group of contributors, critique the approaches used to study relationships and families while suggesting modern approaches for the new millennium."

Working Couples Caring for Children and Aging Parents: Effects on Work and Well-being
"Introduction. The "sandwiched generation" : introduction -- Employer and governmental initiatives affecting work and family life in the United States -- A brief overview of supports provided to working caregivers in countries other than the United States -- Theoretical perspectives on the work-family interface and conceptual framework for the book -- pt. II: Findings from a national study. Who are working, "sandwiched-generation" couples? -- How couples are doing : the effects of being "sandwiched" on work-family fit, well-being, and work -- Development of a model of work-family coping strategies and advice from couples -- Work-family coping strategies : what are the effects on work-family fit, well-being, and work -- Workplace supports : effects on work-family fit, well-being, and work -- Changes in work and family roles and outcomes over time -- pt. III: Effecting change : Where do we go from here? Summary of major findings and recommendations for next steps" (from table of contents)

The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality
"This book explains why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, the authors show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways--between the overworked and the underemployed, women and men, parents and non-parents."

What We Know About Childcare
"This book represents a brand-new version of Daycare that first appeared in 1982. It updates, expands, and deepens discussion of the issues set out in that book and reflects our current state of knowledge about childcare."

Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and Their Children
"This volume is based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on 'Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and their Children', held in 2003. The book is divided into four sections, each dealing with a different aspect of the topic."

Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being
"Work, Familly, Health and Well-Being considers multiple dimensions of health and well-being for workers and their families, children, and communities. It is organized into seven categories and will appeal to anyone in the fields of psychology, sociology, family studies, demographics, economics, anthropology, and social work."

Changing Rhythms of American Family Life

International encyclopedia of marriage and family

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Consumer Sciences & Human Ecology

Compact for Learning: An Action Handbook for Family-School-Community Partnerships
This handbook provides guidelines for developing partnerships between families, schools, and communities. Topics include writing, implementing, evaluating, and strengthening partnerships. Activity sheets and a survey & comment form are also included.

Positioning Family and Consumer Sciences for the 21st Century
The Family and Consumer Sciences Education Association provides "a self-assessment tool for the purpose of communicating excellence." Topics include the conceptual framework, how to use and score the assessment, and performance measures & indicators.

America Goes Back to School: A Place for Families and the Community

Dietary Guidelines for Americans [electronic source]
Freely available online (2005)

Leadership for Change: National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education

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Family & Consumer Sciences Education

Child Care and Child Development: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
This book presents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study to date of early child care and its relation to child development.

Home Economics Teacher Education (Yearbook)
This yearbook presents a series of essays concerning occupational home economics.

National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education
This resource supplies information about the American Vocational Association's standards for family and consumer sciences education. Sections on developing and implementing standards, the Family and Consumer Sciences Education Model, and state leadership strategies are included.

Positioning Family and Consumer Sciences for the 21st Century
The Family and Consumer Sciences Education Association provides "a self-assessment tool for the purpose of communicating excellence." Topics include the conceptual framework, how to use and score the assessment, and performance measures & indicators.

Preparing Teachers to Teach Global Perspectives: A Handbook for Teacher Educators
This handbook provides information concerning the framework for preparing to teach from a global perspective, diversified teacher education courses, student teaching overseas, and professional development in global education.

Review and Synthesis of Family and Consumer Sciences Education Research, 1985-1995
This volume is a "review and synthesis of family and consumer sciences education research" from 1985-1995. Information concerning research design, programming, content area research, and priority issues is presented.

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Food Merchandising and Food Safety

Food and Animal Borne Diseases Sourcebook
This handbook supplies information concerning bacterial, viral, and parasitic food and water borne diseases. It also discusses animal and insect borne diseases such as hantavirus, lyme disease, plague, rabies and more. Sections on preventing food borne illness, food handling, and food irradiation are included.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
"Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline food and funeral food to fad diets and fast food."

Politics of Fat: Food and Nutrition Policy in America
This volume discusses nutrition, specifically dietary fat, from a public policy perspective. Topics include public policy and regulatory concerns, the bureaucracy in the food system, and dietary guidelines.

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Gerontology

Community Care for an Aging Society
This book examines the many factors contributing to needs for care among older persons as well as the ways in which impairments are defined and responded to by both the individual and society.

Handbook of Nutrition in the Aged
Handbook of Nutrition in the Aged provides information about nutrition, disease, and body function; nutritional programs and therapies; vitamin nutrition in the elderly; macro nutrient intakes and requirements; and mineral nutrition in the aging adult.

Handbook of Aging and the Family
This handbook discusses aging trends; theoretical frameworks and research methods; family relationships; family life; and turning points such as retirement, illness, and death.

The Not-So-Golden Years: Caregiving, the Frail Elderly, and the Long-term Care Establishment
"The Not So Golden Years: Caregiving, the Frail Elderly and the Long-Term Care Establishment explores the forces shaping long-term care policy in the U.S. and its impact on individuals and public budgets. The book addresses the world of elder care from the vantage point of gender, race, ethnicity and social class."

Functional Foods, Ageing and Degenerative Disease [electronic source]
NWMSU electronic book; click to access (2004)

Nursing Homes: Making the Right Choice

Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Anymore!: Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life [electronic source]
NWMSU electronic book; click to access(2004)

Handbook of Aging and the Family

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Housing

Encyclopedia of Housing
The encyclopedia covers housing topics from AZ, including affordability indicators, building codes, continuing care retirement communities, elderly, eviction, Feng-Shui, history of housing, homelessness, Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, lending institutions, model cities program, nursing homes, refinancing, second homes, third world housing, Wagner-Steagall Housing Act, and zoning.

Gender and Planning: A Reader
"Experts recognize that gender has affected urban planning and the design of the spaces where we live and work. Too often, urban and suburban spaces support stereotypically male activities and planning methodologies reflect a male-dominated society.To document and analyze the connection between gender and planning, the editors of this volume have assembled a collection of essays by leading scholars."

The Geography of Opportunity
"This books is a multidisciplinary examination of the social and economic changes resulting from increased diversity and their implications for economic opportunity and growth given persistent patterns of segregation by race and class, offering both public policy and private initatives that would respond to those challenges."

Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide

The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America

Americans and Their Homes: Demographics of Homeownership

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Interior Design

Dictionary of Furniture
"Dictionary of Furniture provides a comprehensive listing of furniture styles, construction details, terminology, furniture designers and design movements throughout history."

Encyclopedia of Interior Design
The Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides "description and analysis of a range of subjects and individuals related to the history of interiors."

Interior Design Handbook
This handbook presents information on a wide variety of topics concerning interior design.

Design on a Dime

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Merchandising

Contemporary Visual Merchandising
This volume supplies information about planning and developing visual presentations, facilities design, mannequins and other human forms, and principles of design. Sections on color, lighting, and signage & graphics are included.

Dictionary of Retailing
This dictionary defines and explains many of the terms associated with retailing.

World of Fashion Merchandising
The World of Fashion Merchandising provides information on topics such as the fashion movement, the economics of the fashion industry, fashion marketing, textiles, design, manufacturing, and fashion promotion.

Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara

The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: An Insider's Look at Starting and Running Your Own Fashion Business

Silent Selling: Best Practices and Effective Strategies in Visual Merchandising

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Nutrition & Dietetics

Bowes and Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used
This volume is a food composition data book that provides reference information on the nutritional values of foods.

CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition
This book is an annotated index of terms and definitions related to nutrition, human health, and well being.

Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
This encyclopedia provides explanations and definitions for a wide variety of topics related to health and nutrition.

Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements
This volume presents information concerning vitamins & minerals in human nutrition, dietary supplements, and fortified foods.

Food and Culture in America: A Nutrition Handbook
This handbook discusses issues such as food habits, health beliefs & practices, and food & religion. The book also provides nutritional information concerning a variety of cultural groups such as Native Americans, Europeans, Latinos, Africans, Asians and more.

Handbook of Nutrition in the Aged
Handbook of Nutrition in the Aged provides information about nutrition, disease, and body function; nutritional programs and therapies; vitamin nutrition in the elderly; macro nutrient intakes and requirements; and mineral nutrition in the aging adult.

Hispanic Foodways, Nutrition, and Health
This volume provides information concerning Hispanic food habits, Hispanic diets & nutrition intake, diet-related diseases and other health issues, applying the US dietary guidelines to Hispanic diets, and assessing food intake among Hispanics.

Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
This comprehensive edition reviews the history, science, and practice of nutrition. The volume includes material on the 1997 and 1998 US Dietary Reference Intakes.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
This two volume set contains a wealth of information on American food and drink. From traditions to museums, important figures to fast food, food-related industries to culinary controversies, and beyond, descriptions and illustrations provide answers to questions on American food and drink.

Encyclopedia of Foods: A Guide to Healthy Nutrition

Encyclopdia of Human Nutrition

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Personal Finance and Consumer Economics

Business Statistics of the United States
This volume provides information about the US economy, including gross domestic product (GDP), consumer income and spending, industrial production, sales and inventories, prices, employment, international comparisons and foreign trade along with statistics on industry profiles.

Encyclopedia of Small Business
Encyclopedia of Small Business presents definitions and descriptions for a wide variety of topics concerning small business management and finance.

Official Guide to American Incomes
This book is a comprehensive look at how much Americans have to spend, with sections on household income; personal income; discretionary income; household income projections; spending and wealth; poverty trends; and income and geography trends.

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Program Administration

Community Partnerships, Working Together: Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community
The US Department of Health and Human Services supplies this guide which provides information about community partnerships as they relate to the Head Start program. Topics include levels of community partnership, understanding collaborative relationships, elements of successful collaboration, and managing conflict.

Family Partnerships: a Continuous Process: Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community
This handbook from the US Department of Health and Human Services provides information concerning family partnerships as they relate to the Head Start program. Topics include partnering with families, exploring family growth, making family goals a reality, and practicing professionalism.

Safety First: Preventing & Managing Childhood Injuries: Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community
This resource from the US Department of Health and Human Services discusses the prevention of childhood injuries in the Head Start program. Topics include safety measures, wounds & injuries, and pediatric emergencies.

Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education
Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education provides information concerning promoting child health, infection control in child care, managing a safe environment, indoor & outdoor safety, promoting good nutrition, and developing effective advocacy.

Supporting Families in Crisis: Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community
The US Department of Health and Human Services supplies this guide which provides information on how to deal with and prevent family crisis. Topics include assessing family crisis, responding to families in crisis, and dealing with potentially dangerous situations. A section on professional development and a list of resources are also included.

Training Guides for the Head Start Learnign Community

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Textiles & Apparel

The Complete History of Costume and Fashion
This work covers "civilizations which have contributed significantly to the development of the modern world up to the present day." The book gives a detailed description of the fashion's progress through time.

Dynamics of Fashion
In this book, Fairchild Publications' author, Elaine Stone, covers current and historical information about fashion by material type, industry level, and the retail market.

Garment and Textile Dictionary
This volume provides descriptions and definitions for a wide variety of topics concerning garments and textiles.

Understanding Fashion History
This book is "a much-needed overview of aspects of fashion history and how to understand it with clear, jargon-free text to help all lay readers, collectors, as well as students of fashion history."

Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headware, Body Decorations, and Footware Through the Ages [electronic source]

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Women's Issues

Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary
"This biographical dictionary covers the lives of exceptional women throughout three and a half centuries of American history. Here are artists, lawyers, reformers, educators, entrepreneurs, physicists, writers, pioneers, presidents' ladies, film stars."

Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century
"This latest volume of Notable American Women includes entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 1999. The era they shared coincides with the great expansion of opportunities for women in the twentieth century. You will find stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; politicians and entrepreneurs; authors and aviators; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists."

Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary
"Notable American Women: The Modern Period offers the biographies of 442 women, spanning the years from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. The women who appear in these pages exemplify a wide variety of career patterns, philosophical outlooks, and personal styles."

Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues
This volume presents information concerning women in third-world countries. Legal, political, and theoretical issues are discussed. Also included are sections on demographics, marriage & family, women & work, and enabling change.

Women's Issues
The purpose of this resource is to "address the changing, dynamic nature of women's lives in America." Topics include historical & contemporary women's issues, health, religion, politics, and economic concerns.

Sexual Harassment: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
This volume presents information about sexual harassment of women, sexual abuse, and law & legislation.

Statistical Handbook on Women In America
Statistics concerning demographics, employment and economic status, health characteristics, and social characteristics are provided.

Statistical Record of Women Worldwide
This volume presents statistics about women and topics such as home & family, politics, sexual harassment, work, legal matters, economic issues, crime, education, health, and religion.

Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares  [electronic source]

Women's Studies Encyclopedia

The American Woman, 2001- 2002: Getting to the Top

The World's Women, 1995: Trends and Statistics