Social Issues

Social Issues: Fiction to Reality Presentation - Nichol

Database Research Basics from Black Hawk College 

Databases

• • Teen Health & Wellness 

The critically acclaimed, award-winning resource Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support, aligned to state, national, and provincial standards. Topics include diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more.

• • Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale) 

Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.

• • Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Gale)

An interdisciplinary source that addresses not only law but also sociology, psychology, history and economics. Entries vary widely from abortion to rape and from family violence to wiretapping, offering a mirror of issues dominating today’s headlines. This edition is a complete update and revision of the previous edition that includes new essays on topics such as stalking, hate crimes, and HIV.

• • SIRS® Issues Researcher (Proquest)

SIRS® Issues Researcher offers selected article from more than 2000 international sources. Its editorially created content includes analysis and opinions which cover the pros and cons of more than 345 social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. 

• • Canada In Context (Gale)

Canada in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content, written from a Canadian perspective, with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

• • Student Edition (Gale) Grades 9 - 12 

With over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Encyclopedias

• • Salem Press (password required) 

    • Health

      • Genetics & Inherited Conditions

      • Psychology and Mental Health

      • Adolescent Health & Wellness

      • Salem Health: Cancer

      • Salem Health: Nutrition

      • Salem Health: Community & Family Health Issues

    • Science

      • Encyclopedia of Global Warming

    • History

      • Civil Disobedience, Social Justice, Nationalism & Populism, Violent Demonstrations and Race Relations

    • Social Science

      • Countries, Peoples & Cultures

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