Bücher der Reihe Bibliographies and Indexes in Science and Technology

This bibliography brings together a broad base of literature directly related to the Three Mile Island-2 accident and its aftermath, covering the humanities, social sciences, hard sciences such as medicine, nuclear biology, and the environment, and government publications.

This bibliography fills a gap in the reference literature on nutrition in the Middle East by providing abstracts of all studies published from 1970 through 1986.

This bibliography provides a general introduction to the literature of the data processing industry, covering a broad range of technologies that stretch back to the pre-history of information processing. Grouped into nine chapters and under nearly 100 subheadings, the materials surveyed include both recent and historical publications, as well as ongoing current publications such as computer magazines. Each chapter contains a short review of historically important issues and comments on the literature, and an annotation for each entry.

Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry, this bibliography provides 2,500 new citations, covering all significant literature published since the late 1980s. It includes all aspects of the subject-biographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic histories-and covers all periods from the beginnings to the personal computer. New to this volume is a chapter on the management of information processing operations, useful to both historians and managers of information technology. Together with the earlier bibliography, this work provides the most comprehensive bibliographic guide to the history of computers, computing, and the information processing industry.The organization of the book follows that of the earlier work, with the addition of the new chapter on the management of information processing. All entries are new to this volume. Titles are annotated, and each chapter begins with a short introduction. A full table of contents and author and subject indexes enhance accessibility to the material.

Covering 40 industries and many applications, this bibliography documents the history of computer applications. The volume includes over 1600 entries, arranged by application and industry. Sections such as higher education, artificial intelligence and space travel are included.

Libraries with large environmental collections will want this unique introduction to a multidisciplinary and popular topic. It includes more than 1,600 sources of information: reference books, periodicals, reports, proceedings, databases, libraries, associations, research centers, and audiovisual materials. Choice

Articles on HDTV, film, and related program production appear in chapter 6, while chapter 7 covers HDTV and alternative delivery systems, including DBS, cable, and fiber optics.

Hypertext/hypermedia systems allow users to access and interact with information. This annotated bibliography covers these systems as well as their applications to such areas as education, electronic publishing and job training.

?Since much energy research is interdisciplinary, Scull identifies journals whose scope spans disciplinary boundaries. Entries for 522 journals provide valuable information not generally available in periodical directories, such as peer review status, review period and lagtime for publication, acceptance rate, and scope notes. ... Scull's selection of journals is judicious and should be exceptionally useful to energy researchers. ... Academic and special libraries serving energy researchers.?-Choice