| By Chilton Staff | Called the “River of Life,” the Columbia River through the Cascade Mountains is an area of spectacular beauty. Flanked by forested hills misted by waterfalls, brimming with salmon, and home to millions of creatures from microbiota to beaver and bears, the Columbia Gorge has been sacred to the Chinook peoples … Read more
| By Sarah Robertson and Mark Mikula | As students and teachers return to classrooms this fall, look to Gale’s For Students line for coverage of novels and other literary works with a back-to-school theme. Most notably, the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is 25 years old this month. The publication of Harry … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Seventy-five years ago this week, two of the world’s most populous countries, India and Pakistan, gained their independence. The entire Indian subcontinent had been under the colonial rule of Great Britain since the mid-nineteenth century, and Britain finally acceded to India’s and Pakistan’s independence on August 15, 1947 (although Pakistan … Read more
| By Elizabeth Mohn | A new school year is a new opportunity for teachers to engage students and to find new ways of sparking students’ love of learning. Research has shown that educators can help promote student engagement by using particular tools and methods—such as by reinforcing a topic’s relevance to students and by … Read more
| By Brenda W. Lerner, RN, ALB | An epidemic of Monkeypox is currently gathering steam throughout the world, leading some people to wonder if this is a situation of “here we go again,” but scientists say the likelihood of another pandemic with monkeypox as the cause is very low. Monkeypox is endemic (occurring naturally … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Covering about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, water is the most important raw material and critical resource for all humans―regardless of class, culture, or location. It is so critical to human health and well-being that the United Nations has deemed it a human right, recognizing that those unable to … Read more
For the past 27 years, Thorndike Press has had the distinct honor of publishing award-winning original Westerns through Five Star Publishing. We feel incredibly lucky to have worked with some of the most talented authors in the genre. This rich history makes it especially difficult to share that Thorndike Press will cease publication of Five … Read more
| By Thorndike Press Staff | . . . And what’s wrong with that, we’d like to know? (You’re welcome for the earworm.) We love love songs and love stories as much as the next romantic, but we’ve found many readers prefer plots that twist, turn, and sometimes terrorize. With summer wrapping up, consider these … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Gale Academic OneFile ACR Open Rheumatology (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Advanced Photonics Research (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Advanced Science (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Air & Space Power History (Air Force Historical Foundation) Peer-reviewed Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (John Wiley & … Read more
| By Rebecca Parks | On July 21, 2022, health professionals in New York made the discovery that a man in Rockland County, near New York City, had contracted polio. The discovery was startling because there had not been a diagnosed case of polio in the United States since 2013, and there hadn’t been a … Read more