Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development

When I reviewed the new version of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Darity, 2008) for Reference Reviews (RR 2008/298) I noted that, although it is a useful information resource, it is very much shorter than its predecessors. In fact the more I look into it, the more I feel that although libraries can be recommended to buy it, those libraries that are fortunate enough to possess the original Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences and/or the subsequent International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences should be recommended to hang onto them if they can, as there is still...