Featured in the fall 1996 issue of "Cosmopolitan's Life After College", this resource presents the scoop on more than 1,800 openings for the 17 million jobs in local, state, and federal government, in the U.S. and abroad. Also includes information on Internet and other online job databases. 90 illustrations.

A one-stop shopping center for jobs. Excellent resource for employment opportunities. --Community Jobs

Presents an overview of the job market in engineering, science, and technology; and features profiles of over sixty careers, each with information on work characteristics, education and training requirements, job entry, advancement and employment outlook, working conditions, and earnings and benefits.

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Each volume focuses on a different career area and contains approximately 700 job profiles, including job summary, job description, and up-to-date salary information.

The New African Diaspora in North America brings together sociologists, social workers, geographers, economists, anthropologists and others to explore the African immigrant experience from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors shed light on the factors behind the increasing wave in African immigration to the U.S. and Canada, the socio-economic characteristics of African immigrants, their spatial distribution, obstacles, and contributions. Despite their increasing presence, African immigrant groups in the U.S. and Canada have engendered relatively little scholarly research on their pre- and post-migration experience. This collection helps fill that void, and will be valuable reading for anyone interested in African Diaspora studies.

Captures the challenging and controversial era between 1975-2000 that led the field of intellectual disability into an age of community acceptance and inclusion. This title includes chapters that focus themes such as public policy and health care.