Lake Region Union High School

Cultures

Websites
Print Sources

 

  • Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures, 2003
  • International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family

Subscription Services

Daily Life On-Line & World Cultures Today
http://dailylife.greenwood.com/login.asp

CultureGrams
http://online.culturegrams.com/?a_username=85-65858&a_password=BIGCHALK

eLibrary (Use Countries of the World)
http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/search?edition=&ts=CCCA02B0C6747A4E0F684C697CF3B64A_1196255180670


Recommended Print Sources

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. (6 volumes) REF 306 HOP

Marriage Customs of the World. REF 392.5 MON


Free Web

Juvenile Justice System
http://www.universalhumanrightsindex.org/

Dating customs in the world
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0767654.html

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Library of Congress: Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

*United Nations List of Least Developed Countries
http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ldc/list.htm

U.S. Department of State's Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

CIA's World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Atlapedia Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/

World's Statesmen
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/

InFonation (United Nations comparison)
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp

Nationmaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/

Economist Country Briefings
http://www.economist.com/countries/

Worldwide Gazetteer
http://www.gazeteer.com/gazeteer/v2/index.aspx

Ethnologue: Languages of the world
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

Internet Public Libary's Culturequest
http://www.ipl.org/youth/cquest/