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Biography: 

Abridged Biography and Genealogy Master Index

REF CT214.A37

Current Biography (1940-current)

REF CT100.C8

Encyclopedia of World Biography

REF CT103.M37

Facts / Statistics / Directories:  

Encyclopedia of Associations (latest edition)

REF HT17.G332

Facts on File

REF D410.F3

Facts on File Issues & Controversies

http://www.2facts.com

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (latest editions) REF HA202.A1

Subject Encyclopedias  

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth & Development

REF QP84 .C26 1998

The CQ Researcher (1985-current)

REF H35.C67

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History

REF E185 .E54 2006    

Encyclopedia of American Social History

REF HN57 .E58 1993

Encyclopedia of Animal Rights

REF HV4708 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

REF LC3707 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Bioethics

REF QH332 .E52 2004

The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions

REF BL2525 .L49 1998

Encyclopedia of Ethics

REF BJ63 .E45 2001

Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues since 1945

REF JC571. L2747 1999

Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases

REF RC112 .T87 1998

Encyclopedia of Mental Health

REF RA790.5 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Social Work

REF HV35 .S6 1995

Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

REF RC41 .G35 2006

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

REF E184 .A1 G14 2000

Handbook of Social Psychology

REF HM251 .H224 1998

International Encyclopedia of Sexuality

REF HZ21 .I68 2001

Native Americans: an Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples

REF E77 .P89 1998

State of the World (latest edition

REF HC 59 .S734

West’s Encyclopedia of American Law

REF KF154 .W47 2005

Women’s Issues

REF HQ 1115 .W6425 1997

For the Pros and Cons of Issues, see these series:

  • Congressional Digest is a journal that presents the pros and cons of various bills, issues and laws.  These are shelved in the Periodical Stacks.

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 Websites:


Aging

National Senior Citizens Law Center

http://www.nsclc.org/

Aids

HIV / AIDS Resources

http://aidsinfo.nih.gov

 


California Ballot Propositions

Election & Voter Information

www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm


Censorship

Federal Communications Commission

www.fcc.gov

Index on Censorship

www.indexonline.org

National Coalition against Censorship

www.ncac.org


Crime

U.S. Department of Justice – Bureau of Justice Statistics

www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

www.ncjrs.org


Death & Dying

Hospice Foundation of America

www.hospicefoundation.org

Project on Death in America

www.soros.org/death/index.htm


Death Penalty

Death Penalty Information Site

deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu

Death Penalty Information Center www.deathpenaltyinfo.org


Diversity

U.S. Department of State Diversity

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/diversity/


Drugs

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

www.health.org


Energy

Energy Information Administration

www.eia.doe.gov


Ethnic Studies

allAfrica.com

www.allafrica.com

Asia Studies WWW Virtual Library

coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Hispanic Online

www.hispaniconline.com

Native Web

www.nativeweb.org


Global Warming

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Global Warming

www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/globalwarming.html


Health

American Medical Association

www.ama-assn.org

National Institutes of Health

www.nih.gov

PubMed – National Library of Medicine

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed

World Health Organization

www.who.int


Human Rights

 Amnesty International Online

www.amnesty.org

Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)

www.umn.edu/humanrts

Institute for Global Communications

www.igc.org/


Law

Find Law

www.findlaw.com

California Codes

caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/index.html

California Statutes

www.leginfo.ca.gov/statute.html

U.S. Codes

uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.php


Pollution

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

www.epa.gov

National Pollution Prevention Center

www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources


Sexuality

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction

www.indiana.edu/~kinsey

Planned Parenthood

www.plannedparenthood.org


Women

Advancing Women

www.advancingwomen.com

Women.com

www.women.com


Work

Institute for Work and Health

www.iwh.on.ca/

U.S. Department of Labor

www.dol.gov

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