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LIBRARY
Mrs Kowalski's Research Topics |
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| NON-FICTION | |
| 179 SPE | Speaking out for animals : true stories about real people whorescue animals. |
| 179.3 ANI | Animal rights. |
| 282 WEI | The truth of Catholicism : ten controversies explored |
| 302.23 MAS | Mass media |
| 303.3 BES | Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists |
| 303.48 FRI | The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century |
| 303.6 MED | Media violence |
| 304.8 AND | Immigration : newcomers and their impact on the United States |
| 304.8 IMM | Immigrants : the new American |
| 304.8 SEN | The debate about immigration |
| 305 DIS | Discrimination |
| 305.26 AN | An aging population : opposing viewpoints |
| 305.9 GAL | Gay rights |
| 305.9 HOM | Homosexuality : opposing viewpoints |
| 306.0973 CAR | Our endangered values : America's moral crisis |
| 306.76 FON | Homophobia : a history |
| 306.0973 CAR | Our endangered values : America's moral crisis |
| 320.973 GRA | Mass media and American politics |
| 323 SCH | In our own best interests |
| 323.4 CIV | Civil liberties: opposing viewpoints |
| 323.1 BRA | Pillar of fire : America in the King years,1963-65 |
| 325.73 ILL | Illegal immigration |
| 325.73 LEV | if your name was changed at Ellis Island |
| 333.72 CON | Conserving the environment |
| 344.73 MAR | Legalization : a debate |
| 345.73 MIL | The Patriot Act |
| 349.73 GRE | Great American court cases |
| 362.1 GOL | Controversies in the practice of medicine |
| 362.2 LAN | Alcohol, teenage drinking |
| 362.29 ADA | Steroids |
| 362.29 GER | Marijuana |
| 362.29 STE | Steroids. |
| 362.29 TAY | Anabolic steroids and the athlete |
| 362.292 ALC | Alcohol |
| 362.292 HAR | Alcohol abuse |
| 362.509 INN | Inner-city poverty. |
| 362.509 POV | Poverty and the homeless |
| 363.12 GRO | Coping with Drinking and Driving |
| 363.3 FOE | Banned in the media : a reference guide to censorship in the press, motion pictures, broadcasting, and the Internet |
| 363.738 GLO | Global warming |
| 363.738 GLO | Global warming |
| 363.738 GLO | Global Warming : Opposing Viewpoints Series. |
| 363.738 GOR | An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it. |
| 363.738 REA | Climate change begins at home |
| 363.738 SPE | Global warming : personal solutions for a healthy planet |
| 363.738 TEN | The complete idiot's guide to global warming. |
| 368.426 CAS | Medicare matters : what geriatric medicine can teach American health care |
| 370.11 MAC | Dancing with bigotry : beyond the politics of tolerance |
| 371.782 SCH | School shootings |
| 382 TRA | Trade : opposing viewpoints |
| 576.8 PYE | The wild world of the future. |
| 615.78 MAR | Marijuana |
| 796.357 BAS | Baseball : 100 years of the modern era : 1901-2000 |
| 796.357 COS | Fair ball : a fan's case for baseball |
| 920 BER | The American women's almanac : an inspiring and irreverent women's history |
| 956.7044 IRA | Iraq. |
| 973 HAK | Reconstruction and reform |
| 973 HAK | All the people |
| 973.929 DIG | The digital decade - the 90s |
| REFERENCE | |
| REF 282 ENC | The encyclopedia of American Catholic history |
| REF 282 NEW | The new Catholic encyclopedia |
| REF 320.9 GOV | Government, politics, and protest : essential primary sources. |
| REF 390 GRE | The Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life, a tour through history from ancient times to the present. |
| REF 809 ENC | Enclyclopedia of Catholic Literature |
| REF 909 HIS | History behind the headlines |
| REF 973.91 AME | American decades |
| REF 973.92 AME | American decades |
| REF 973.92 ENC | Encyclopedia of contemporary American culture |
| SEARCH TERMS |
| "teen driving" AND laws |
| "smoking bans" |
| "plastic surgery" AND risks |
| "same sex marriage" |
| Iraq AND " US presence" |
| DATABASES |
| CQResearcher |
| The source for for original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. |
| www.cqresearcher.com |
| EBSCO Ultra Online |
| Perhaps the best research tool for literary, fine arts, history, social studies information. Be sure to click on Full Text when looking for direct sources and quotes. |
| http://search.epnet.com |
| eLibrary |
| eLibrary - delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. |
| http://www.proquestk12.com |
| Encyclopedia Britannica |
| Britannica Online School Edition: The most comprehensive K-12 reference resource, with separate units for elementary, middle school, and high school. To access additional databases, click on the Additional Britannica Databases button. |
| www.school.eb.com |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| The History Study Center |
| History Study Center is a collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day |
| http://www.proquestk12.com/ |
| In the First Person |
| A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world |
| www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Critical Thinking |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| WEBSITES |
| American Memory - Library of Congress |
| American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. |
| http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html |
| American Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals |
| Animal welfare organization continues to pursue the mission to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals. |
| http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer |
| The History Channel |
| The cable TV station that covers historical events is depth. |
| www.history.com |
| Library of Congress |
| An authoritative, general purpose research site. |
| http://www.loc.gov/index.html |
| United States Conference of Catholic Bishops |
| The USCCB is an assembly of the Catholic Church hierarchy who work together to unify, coordinate, promote, and carry on Catholic activities in the United States; to organize and conduct religious, charitable, and social welfare work at home and abroad; to aid in education; and to care for immigrants. |
| www.usccb.org |
| United Nations |
| Daily UN news, documents and publications, overview information, conference information, photos, and other UN information resources. |
| United States Department of Justice |
| Represents citizens in enforcing the law. |
| www.usdoj.gov/ |
| SEARCH ENGINES |
| Ask.com |
| Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Ask is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity: ExpertRank. I |
| www.ask.com |
| CITATION AIDS |
| Easybib |
| The free automatic bibliography composer. |
| Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. |
| http://www.easybib.com |
| Works Cited Guidelines (MLA 6th edition) |
| Probably the best site for learning how to document sources, both in print and electronic format. Very clear. |
| http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tcraig/wc.html |
| Research and Documentation Online |
| Link for documenting sources in research papers. |
| http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ |
| The OWL at Purdue:MLA Formatting and Style Guide |
| Excellent resource for MLA formatting with many good examples of papers, works cited pages, etc. |
| http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html |
