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Selected Web Sites
- American Dietetic Association
- The nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, this is a good source of career information.
- http://www.eatright.org
- American Society of Interior Designers
- This association provides credentialing and continuing education credit and is a good source for professional development.
- http://www.asid.org
- Angel of Fashion
- Deep site for information about apparel with a clean, intuitive design.
- http://www.fashionangel.com/linkpages
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Website produced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration detailing food safety standards from additives to labeling.
- http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
- Child and Family Web Guide
- Well-done clearinghouse of links to and evaluations of websites in child development.
- http://www.cfw.tufts.edu
- HEARTH: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, and History
- Full-text core collection of relevant books and journals from 1850 to 1950.
- http://hearth.library.cornell.edu
- IBIDS
- Factual literature on dietary supplements jointly produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health.
- http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php
- Toxnet
- Find articles on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related topics in this cluster of databases produced by the National Library of Medicine.
- http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
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ETSU Departmental Web Sites
- Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
- Information about the programs offered by the department, as well as the faculty, student organizations, and application procedures.
- http://www.etsu.edu/scitech/ahsc/index.htm
- College of Business and Technology
- Information about admissions and transfers, as well as links to the undergraduate and graduate catalogs.
- http://www.etsu.edu/cbat
Other departmental sites might be helpful, depending upon the emphasis in Family and Consumer Sciences.
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Selected Bibliography
- Contemporary Fashion.
- Detroit: St. James Press/Gale Group/Thomson Learning, 2002.
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) TT505 .A1 C66 2002
- Early Childhood Development and Its Variations.
- Slentz, Kristine; Krogh, Suzanne.
- Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2001.
- View this book online.
- Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
- Bender, David A.
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- View this book online.
- Empowering the American Consumer: Corporate responsiveness and market profitability.
- Samli, A. Coskun.
- Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, c2001.
- View this book online.
- Fashion zeitgeist trends and cycles in the fashion system
- Vinken, Barbara.
- Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2005.
- View this book online.
- Professional Practice for Interior Designers.
- Piotrowski, Christine M.
- New York: John Wiley and Sons, c2001.
- View this book online.
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