Africa South of the Sahara 

February 2006

Class Project Handout

Print Resources:

• General encyclopedias -- R 031
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts -- R 317.3 WOR
  statistics, flags, brief country information
• Lands and Peoples -- R 910 LAN 
  arranged by continents
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations -- R 910 JUN
  arranged alphabetically by country
• The Marshall Cavendish New Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World and Its People -- R 910.3 MAR
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures -- R 306 JUN
  arranged alphabetically by culture or ethnicity
• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography, 5 volume set -- R 910 JUN 

Online Resources:

• Britannica Online Encyclopedia
• Gale Virtual Reference Library -- UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes, UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science, UXL Complete Health Resource, UXL Complete Life Science Resource, & UXL Encyclopedia of Science, Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Food and Recipes of the World, Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays, and Genetics

Power Library Databases:

• From School Power Library 
• From Home Carnegie Library Electronic Databases
   
• Tips for searching POWER Library for this project

Web Sites:

• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• International AIDS charity
• Countries of the World : From the USA CIA World Factbooks, the United Nations Statistical Office, The Library of Congress Country Studies and other sources
• Lonely Planet world Guide: Destinations
• National Geographic
• Geographic.org

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