2011 volume contains 26 scholarly essays on current and major issues, controversies, and the state of the field in this emerging discipline.

Two-volume set (2005) contains essays on "the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures," including entries on each of dozens of ethnic/cultural groups around the world.

Second edition (2011) of this text is "designed to help students new to medical anthropology gain an initial understanding of the subdiscipline’s approach to health in light of the importance of interacting culture, social, environmental, and political economic contexts."

2016 volume contains 23 essays which provide a review of "ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their environments." You may preview the contents.

2006 resource "includes entries on a broad array of issues and covers the breadth of psychology viewed through the lens of the racial and ethnic minority experience."

2007 introduction discusses the "framework of culture, family structure, health, and bereavement. Intercultural interaction -- and all of their intersections...," with additional consideration to methodological and ethical research issues.

Third edition (2011) outlines "theories and research in all three orientations of cross-cultural psychology (cultural, culture-comparative, and indigenous traditions)."

2017 volume draws on various disciplines across the humanities, psychology, and social sciences to explore "key themes relevant for understanding and supporting the mental health needs of people living in diverse socio-economic and cultural environments." You may preview the contents.

Two-volume set (2009) contains over 300 signed entries on "cultural beliefs and traditions and the institutionalized social rituals that surround dying and death, as well as the array of emotional responses relating to bereavement, grieving, and mourning."

Two-volume work (2012) contains 117 signed, scholarly entries on "human physical appearance -- how people’s outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance (body image) affect their lives." preview ]

Five volumes in printed form (2004), offering articles on the "ethics of health professions, animal research, population control, and the environment."

Five-volume set, published in 2006, contains about 1,000 signed entries that "focus on topics in physical/biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural/social anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology." You may preview a list of entries.

The IESBS (2002) is the largest reference work on the social and behavioral sciences ever published -- over 4,000 signed articles in 26 printed volumes.

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. Acquisition was made possible by the McCrum Palmer Book Fund.

Second edition (2009) combines anthropological theory and ethnography, including 275 substantial entries, over 300 short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and nearly 600 glossary items, all alphabetically arranged.

Edited by Mircea Eliade, this 2005 fifteen-volume set is the most important encyclopedic work on religion.