HS-Economics

Library Catalog

To locate books on this debate topic search the library catalog by subject. Use those listed below or others that you have found useful.

Go to the ASW library catalog here; enter each subject heading separately and then click the subject button:

Databases

Advanced Placement Source

• Designed to meet the needs of high school students in AP of IB courses
• 5,550+ full-text academic journals and magazines

JSTOR

• 1,000+ academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources in all academic areas.

Global Issues in Context

• Analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural
• Focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues.
• Detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies
• Overviews summarizing background information, historical context, and contemporary stances
• Expert perspectives analyzing an issue or event through multiple aspects
• Reference documents providing background information on all issues and nations
• Full-text international magazines, academic journals, news source, and primary sources
• Statistics, including interactive graphs, tables, and charts

MAS Ultra

• 500 popular, high school magazines
• 360 full text reference books
• 85,670 biographies
• 107,000+ primary source documents
• 510,000 photos, maps & flags

Points of View

• Full-text database providing students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
• 280+ topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

Web Sites

DataMasher

• DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data from U.S. states by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the state.
  
  

Statistical Absstract of the United States
Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

EuroStat (European Union Statistics)