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General Reference
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R 170.3 ETH |
Ethics and Values.
Danbury, CT : Grolier, 1999. |
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R 300 TAK |
Taking sides : clashing views on controversial
bioethical issues.
7th ed. Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, 2007. |
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R 306.097 ENC |
Encyclopedia of Social Issues.
New York : Marshall Cavendish, c1997. |
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R 323.4 ENC |
Encyclopedia of Privacy. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 2007. |
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R 333.7 GRO |
The Grolier Library of Environmental Concepts and
Issues.
Danbury, CT : Grolier, 1996. |
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R 349.73 NAT |
National Survey of State Laws. Detroit:
Gale Thompson/Gale, 2005. |
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R 362.29 DRU |
Drugs and Society. New York: Marshall
Cavendish, 2006. |
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R 617.1027
OAK |
The
Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine. New York: Facts
on File, 2005. |
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Books about Specific Topics |
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Use DESTINY, the online catalog, to
find your topic. |
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Databases |
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Power Library Databases -
magazine & newspaper articles |
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SIRS
Discoverer |
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Student
Research Center - CURRENT ISSUES |
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EBSCOhost |
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Websites |
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INTERNET SEARCH TIP: Use
a
search engine
(e.g. Google) on the Internet, choose a topic as one term and add other
terms like "position papers", "pro and con", "opposing view", "debate"
or "controvers*." |
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Multnomah County (OR) Homework Center -
Social Issues
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html |
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Hot Topics Supersites
http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/hot/supersites.shtml
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Current Topics for
Research - Kingwood College Library Online
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/hot-topics.html |
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CSA Discovery Guides
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/discoveryguides-all.php |
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Public Policy
Issues and Groups
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/pubpol.html
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Public
Agenda.org Issue Guides
http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/issuehome.cfm
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Yahoo.com - Society and Culture - Issues
and Causes
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/ |
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Issues in Depth - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/ |
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Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/ |
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Librarian's Internet Index
http://lii.org |
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PBS Frontline
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ |
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PBS Online News Hour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html |
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PBS
Home Page
http://www.pbs.org |
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Docuticker
A selection
of resources, reports and publications from government
agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest
organizations
http://www.docuticker.com/ |
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Smithsonian Museum
http://www.si.edu/
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Turbo10 Search Engine - explore the Invisible Web
http://turbo10.com/ |
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SPECIFIC TOPICS |
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Cyber Crime
NPR - look for "Weekend Edition" series on
Cyber Crime
http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=cyber+crime |
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Gender Equity
in Sports
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/ |
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Year-round school
year
The Coalition for a Traditional School Year
http://www.schoolyear.info/first.html
Microsoftİ Encarta Encyclopedia
search for 'school year' |
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Graphic from
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