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CultureGrams
World Edition
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports delivering the world... to you
Cultural reports for more than 200 countries each include 25 categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, gestures, family, diet, holidays, economy, education, health, and events and trends.
CultureGrams helps you and your students discover the world with concise cultural and statistical snapshots of every country recognized by the United Nations -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Local experts document the unique, intimate details of each country's customs, traditions and daily life.
And whether it's Iraq, Canada, or Kenya, each CultureGram offers an equality of coverage detailing 25 different aspects of the country and its culture.
E Library
eLibrary is the perfect resource for delivering full-text and multimedia reference essentials. The easy-to-use interface makes research easy.
Students find the answers they need from more than 2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and top-quality multimedia (audio/video) files.
Users can sort their results by relevance, date, file size, Lexile or reading level, publication, and source, while librarians and educators can find content that's directly linked to state and national teaching standards.
The one-of-a-kind BookCart functionality allows librarians and educators to build persistent links to pre-selected content, creating reading lists, subject and topic pages, standards-linked lessons and activities, community interest pages, and even pre-or post-assessments.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
In addition to the engaging, streamlined interface and media-rich topic pages, the product's unprecedented collection of content and curriculum-focused tools that help students explore issues from all perspectives include:
- More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays
- 5,000+ topic overviews
- More than 300 primary source documents
- 300 biographies of social activists and reformers
- More than 775 court-case overviews
- 5 million periodical articles
- Nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs
- Nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search
- Thousands of podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
- A national and state curriculum standards search, correlated to the content that allows educators to quickly identify material by grade and discipline.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains more than 700 Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and U·X·L titles. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis, and new full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day. Included in the resource are:
- More than 400 titles from Greenhaven Press Series, including Opposing Viewpoints, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies and Teen Decisions
- Fifteen proprietary Gale print sets, including Activists, Rebels, and Reformers; Civil Rights in the United States; Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students; Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy; Environmental Encyclopedia; Great American Court Cases; Tsunamis; Encyclopedia of Sociology; and Macmillan Profiles: Humanitarians and Reformers.
ProQuest Direct
ProQuest Central K12 puts your library at the center of serious research
The award-winning ProQuest search engine delivers millions of articles from more than 4,600 full-text scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. ProQuest Central K12 supports high school and college-prep level programs with features such as the following:
More full text
Get right to the good stuff, right now with the largest collection of full-text periodicals selected specifically to support high school programs.
75% of all titles are full text; and one-click linking automatically connects citations to full text--wherever it resides electronically in your library.
More current coverage
Don't let a year go by with too many full-text embargoes. Less than 15% of our titles have restrictions that delay the latest articles from becoming accessible when published.
And, RSS feeds and same-day full text for papers like The New York Times keep research as current as news occurs.
More college prep coverage
More than 160 subjects are represented, across 6,100 titles, including 3,500 scholarly journals.
Major subject focus includes the following:
- Business
- Current Events
- Education
- Health
- Literature
- Sciences
- Social Sciences
Careful indexing, reference linking, email alerts, auto-citations, and article translations provide further support for student research.
World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society
Expands and completes any library collection, meeting both reference and curriculum needs Recently revised, improved and expanded, this user-friendly database is an invaluable online resource that presents comprehensive information and unique insights into the military conflicts that have defined our world from its beginning to today.
From the Aztec-Spanish War in the 16th century to the United States’ military involvement in the Middle East in the last three decades, violent conflict is interwoven throughout our history. While the justification for war is highly debatable, there is no disagreement about the value of studying past conflicts to better understand our nature - and to hopefully avoid future wars.
Wars create pivotal points in the human record, defining our leaders as well as changing the lives of ordinary families and citizens. Whether fighting for independence, forging alliances, making a play for dominance, or battling a global threat, history is shaped when nations go to war. And because of the political and economical power of the United States, the effects of its wars ripple throughout the world.
Through involving investigations of how the peace of World War I led to World War II, or insightful comparisons of U.S. past involvement in Southeast Asia with the Iraq War, World at War helps students and researchers develop a deeper, critical appreciation of both America’s history and total human involvement and costs of war.
This freshly updated online database provides users with the most current, accurate, and enlightening information on the conflicts that have shaped our world - and provides the ability to truly understand the past - to help determine the future.
Features:
- The Analyze section supports student inquiry into historical dilemmas by asking questions such as, "How did Germany's military over-ambition eventually lead to its defeat during World War I?" and "How did Franklin D. Roosevelt expand the use of presidential powers during World War II?"
- Provides complete overviews of 27 wars, with timelines, causes and consequences, portraits of opponents, and links to supporting facts, figures, primary sources, and audiovisual content
- Includes 7,000 authoritative reference entries, including biographies and discussions of important places, events, movements, ideas, artifacts, and organizations
- More than 8,000 primary sources, including photos, maps, personal accounts, and video and audio clips for analyses or enhancing lectures
Highlights:
- The only online resource focused on the causes and consequences of wars fought around the world, elucidating the global impact of these conflicts
- Developed by accomplished military historians, including Dr. Spencer Tucker (award-winning author of titles including The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars and The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict), with input from librarians and educators
World Conflicts
Insight into the human, political, and physical landscapes that shape our world
From the editors of CultureGrams comes a new way for students to understand the world around us: World Conflicts Today.
World Conflicts Today explores protracted, unresolved world conflicts, occurring in:
- Afghanistan
- Basque country (Spain and France)
- Chechnya
- Colombia
- Darfur (Sudan)
- Iraq
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Korean Peninsula
- Northern Ireland
- Palestinian Territories
Clear, concise, and thorough materials synthesize volumes of news articles, primary sources, books, and opinion pieces generated by each conflict over the years--giving students access to digestible quantities of in-depth information for analysis, further research, or debate.
The newly updated interface offers a mouse-over map of the world with brief summaries of each conflict, along with easy links to the reports and fresh, up-to-date PowerPoint slideshows.
Researched and produced by CultureGrams editors and reviewed by regional content experts, World Conflicts Today provides unbiased, high-quality coverage.
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