The Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work is a reference work about prostitution past and
present, worldwide and especially, in the United States. With 341 entries on health, cultural
issues, migration, boom towns, legislation, technology, notable figures, literature, movies, and
more, this two-volume encyclopedia is a foremost resource devoted to this high-interest yet
sensitive topic. Most entries conclude with suggestions for further reading on the topic, including
books, articles, Web sites, and films.
As prostitution is ubiquitous, the entry list is wide-ranging. Entries are extremely specific,
such as the Australian Mace Scandal or any entry devoted to a single person; others describe
abstract ideas such as “desire,” as they relate to commercial sex. Entries can discuss extreme
acceptance or persecution of prostitution or new approaches to regulation or fads in sexual
practices. Every attempt has been made to include such phenomena as devadasi and les grandes
horixontales, as well as the emergence of syphilis in Europe, among other notable topics. Some
historic eras or locales have been marked by phenomena related to prostitution, such as Ancient
Rome or Hong Kong, and they are included. Whether to include entries about specific nations
was hotly debated. Ultimately, it was judged that including only selected country entries would
create an impression that there was a greater degree of prostitution in some places than others,
without accounting for travel, migration, local custom, and attitudes toward overt and covert
sexual activity in general and commercial or transactional sexual activity in specific. Therefore,
regional entries (e.g., Southeast Asia or Western Europe) endeavor to offer an overview, while
local entries (e.g., New York City or Bangkok) and historical entries (e.g., Habsburg Monarchy
or Renaissance) offer greater depth in examining these topics.
Entries are organized alphabetically. An Alphabetical List of Entries as well as a Topical List
of Entries will help readers to quickly find topics of interest. Items appearing in boldface print
within an entry are also entries in and of themselves. Cross-references are also made at the end
of the text of an entry with the standard “See also … ” listing. A comprehensive index provides
further access.

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The Encyclopedia of Insects is a complete source of information
on the subject of insects, contained within a single volume.
Each article in the Encyclopedia provides an overview of the
selected topic to inform a broad spectrum of readers, from
insect biologists and scientists conducting research in related
areas, to students and the interested general public.
In order that you, the reader, will derive the maximum
benefit from the Encyclopedia of Insects, we have provided this
Guide. It explains how the book is organized and how the
information within its pages can be located.
SUBJECT AREAS
The Encyclopedia of Insects presents 271 separate articles on
the entire range of entomological study. Articles in the Encyclopedia
fall within twelve general subject areas, as follows:
• Anatomy
• Physiology
• Behavior
• Evolution
• Reproduction
• Development and Metamorphosis
• Major Groups and Notable Forms
• Interactions with Other Organisms
• Interactions with Humans
• Habitats
• Ecology
• History and Methodology

ORGANIZATION
The Encyclopedia of Insects is organized to provide the maximum
ease of use for its readers. All of the articles are arranged in a
single alphabetical sequence by title. An alphabetical Table of
Contents for the articles can be found beginning on p. v of
this introductory section.
As a reader of the Encyclopedia, you can use this alphabetical
Table of Contents by itself to locate a topic. Or you can first
identify the topic in the Contents by Subject Area (p. xiii) and
then go to the alphabetical Table to find the page location.
So that they can be more easily identified, article titles begin
with the key word or phrase indicating the topic, with any
descriptive terms following this. For example, “Temperature,
Effects on Development and Growth” is the title assigned to
this article, rather than “Effects of Temperature on Development
and Growth,” because the specific term Temperature is
the key word.

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The first step to planning a successful vegetable garden is to decide which vegetables to grow. This may sound fairly straightforward, but there are a lot of factors involved, and you need to answer some basic questions: What vegetables do you and your family like? Do you want to eat all your crop fresh, or store or preserve some of your harvest? Can you grow the vegetables you like successfully in your climate? How much time and energy can you put into your garden? The first factor to consider is personal preference.

What vegetables do you like to eat? The first decision to make in choosing what to grow in your
vegetable garden is simple: What vegetables do you and your family like to eat? Perhaps you’d love to grow peas because you remember how wonderful they tasted fresh out of the garden in your childhood. Or maybe your family’s crazy about spinach salad or broccoli casserole, or you’re just plain tired of frozen vegetables.

What are you going to do with it? How do you plan to use your vegetables, and what are you going to do with the part of your crop that you don’t eat as soon as it’s harvested? Do you want to freeze, can, dry, store, or make preserves with some of your crop?

How much do you need? How you plan to use your vegetables directly affects how much of each vegetable you want to grow, and will influence your decision about the kind of vegetable you’re going to plant — all carrots aren’t alike, and there are hundreds of different tomato varieties.

Can you grow it? Not all vegetables grow satisfactorily in ail climates. Some vegetables like it hot; some refuse to grow in hot weather. Some vegetables flourish when it’s cold; others just shiver and die. Certain plants go from seed to harvest in a couple of months and will grow almost anywhere in the United States — green beans and some kinds of lettuce are among these obliging vegetables. Others are very picky and need a long stretch of warm or cool weather. You have to take the plant’s needs into consideration before you can make a decision on whether or not it’s a practical choice for your home garden.

Do you have room for it? There are plants that are rather like large pets — they’re very endearing, but you just can’t live with them because they’re too big. You want to grow vegetables that will give you a reasonable amount of produce in the space that you have available. Some vegetables — especially some vining crops like pumpkins — need a great deal of room and give you only low yields, so they’re not a practical choice in a small home garden. And if you’re growing an indoor container garden, you’ll do fine with cabbages in flowerpots, but there’s simply no place you’re going to put a healthy watermelon vine or a Jerusalem artichoke.

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The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained (GEUU) presents comprehensive
and objective information on unexplained mysteries, paranormal abilities,
supernatural events, religious phenomena, magic, UFOs, and myths that have
evolved into cultural realities. This extensive three-volume work is a valuable tool providing
users the opportunity to evaluate the many claims and counterclaims regarding the
mysterious and unknown. Many of these claims have been brought to the forefront
from television, motion pictures, radio talk shows, best-selling books, and the Internet.
There has been a conscious effort to provide reliable and authoritative information in
the most objective and factual way possible, to present multiple viewpoints for controversial
subject topics, and to avoid sensationalism that taints the credibility of the subject matter.
The manner of presentation enables readers to utilize their critical thinking skills to
separate fact from fiction, opinion from dogma, and truth from legend regarding enigmas
that have intrigued, baffled, and inspired humankind over the centuries.

About the Authors
Brad E. Steiger has written over 150 books with over 17 million copies in print. His vast
writing experience includes biographies, books of inspiration, phenomenon and the
paranormal, spirituality, UFO research, and crimes. His first articles on the paranormal
appeared in 1954 and, today, he has produced over 2,000 articles on such themes. Steiger
has appeared on such television programs as Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC Evening News
with Peter Jennings, NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw, This Week (with David Brinkley,
Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts), The Mike Douglas Show, The David Susskind Show,
The Joan Rivers Show, Entertainment Tonight, Haunted Hollywood, Inside Edition, The Unexplained,
and Giants: The Myth and the Mystery.
Sherry Hansen Steiger is a co-author of 24 books on a variety of topics on the unusual
and unexplained with her husband Brad. Her continual studies in alternative medicine and
therapies led to the 1992 official creation of The Office of Alternative Medicine under the
Institutes of Health, Education and Welfare in Bethesda, Maryland. Both Steigers have
served as consultants for such television shows as Sightings and Unsolved Mysteries.
The advisors for GEUU are Judy T. Nelson, the Youth Services Coordinator for the
Pierce County Library System in Tacoma, Washington; Lee Sprince, former Head of
Youth Services for the Broward County Main Library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Brad
E. Steiger, author of Gale’s former Visible Ink Press title The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia
of Shape-Shifting Things. For GEUU, both Nelson and Sprince were consulted on GEUU’s
subject content, its appropriateness, and format; Steiger advised on the content’s organization
before he became the author of GEUU.

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The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.

Excerpt from the preface

“To prepare the Encyclopedia, the MBC chose Dr. Horace Newcomb, Heyne Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin as curator and editor.  Professor Newcomb, one of the first scholars to examine the content and history of television…assembled an advisory committee [to reduce] the vast array of possible “television topics” to around 1,000.  An early decision was made to focus the majority of the work on major English-speaking, television producing countries, and for that reason the bulk of the material presented here deals with television programs, people, and topics drawn from the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia…

The Encyclopedia of Television has now become our “map” for future exhibitions and public programs.  With a stronger knowledge of television’s past our aim is for those projects to continue our role as an important participant in media education.  We will continue to assist scholars and teachers, students and critics - all citizens - to know more about this medium and therefore, to understand and use it well as part of their personal and social experience.”

Bruce DuMont
Founder and President
Museum of Broadcast Communications

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