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Title: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
Publisher: American Psychological Association, c2001.
Location: Axinn - Reference DESK
Call No.: Reference Desk BF76.7 .P83 2001
Title: APA style guide to electronic references
Publisher: American Psychological Association, c2007.
Location: Axinn - Reference DESK
Call No.: Reference Desk BF76.7 .P85 2007
Title: Handbook of research on new literacies
Author(s)/Editor(s): Julie Coiro, et al.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis Group, c2008.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref LB1043 .H328 2008
Title: Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media
Author(s)/Editor(s): Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Publisher: Sage Publications, c2007.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref HQ784.M3 E53 2007L, vol. 1 & 2
Title: Encyclopedia of politics and religion
Author(s)/Editor(s): Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: CQ Press, c2007.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref BL65.P7 E53 2007, vol. 1 & 2
Title: Dictionary of marketing communications
Author(s)/Editor(s): Govoni, Norman A. P.
Publisher: Sage, c2004.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref HF5412 .G68
Title: Handbook of research on educational communications and technology
Author(s)/Editor(s): David H. Jonassen
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref LB1028.3 .H355 2004
Title: Handbook of political communication research
Author(s)/Editor(s): Lynda Lee Kaid
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref JA85 .H36 2004
Title: Encyclopedia of new media : an essential reference to communication and technology
Author(s)/Editor(s): Steve Jones
Publisher: Sage Publications, c2003.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref QA76.575 .E5368 2003
Title: Encyclopedia of communication and information
Author(s)/Editor(s): Jorge Reina Schement
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA, c2002.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref P87.5 .E53 2002 vol. 1-3
Title: Handbook of public relations
Author(s)/Editor(s): Robert L. Heath, et al.
Publisher: Sage Publications, c2001.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref HD59 .H267 2001
Title: How to track politics on the internet
Author(s)/Editor(s): Maxwell, Bruce
Publisher: CQ Press, 2000.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref JK1764 .M39 2000
Title: Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics, media, and communications
Author(s)/Editor(s): Marcel Danesi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, c2000.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref P87.5 .D36 2000
Title: The handbook of social psychology
Author(s)/Editor(s): Daniel T. Gilbert
Publisher: McGraw-Hill ; New York : Distributed exclusively by Oxford University Press, c1998.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref HM251 .H224 1998 1998, vol. 1 & 2
Title: Encyclopedia of rhetoric and composition : communication from ancient times to the information age
Author(s)/Editor(s): Theresa Enos
Publisher: Garland Pub., 1996.
Location: Axinn - Reference
Call No.: Ref PN172 .E53 1996