World Geography
A
research guide: books, articles, & web sites
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How to Find Books in the ODU Library: Search in the ODU Library Catalog.
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How to Find Books in Other OhioLINK Libraries:
Search in the OhioLINK
Library Catalog, or start your search in the ODU Library Catalog and then click on the
OhioLINK button at the top of the results screen to search statewide.
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To Help You Search in the Catalogs:
Guides and video
tutorials are available online from
the library’s Research Help page or in
print by the library Reference Desk on the top floor
of Spangler.
Reference Books—A Selection
Reference
books provide a good starting point for your research. Reference items are
located in the Library’s Reference collection, behind the Reference Desk on the
top floor of Spangler.
Atlases,
Chronologies, and Surveys
Many atlases are located in the Atlas Collection
section of the Reference area.
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Columbia
Gazetteer of North America. R 917.003 C7232g, 2000
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The International
Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas. R 910 I61, 1979
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McGraw-Hill’s
Atlas of World Events: The Key Political, Economic, Demographic and
Environmental Issues that are Shaping the World Today. R 911 A538, 2005
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World Development
Indicators 2007. R 330.9005 W8934d, 2007
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World Development
Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. R 330.9 W927, 2008
Dictionaries
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Dictionary of
Human Geography. R 304.203 D5615h
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Dictionary of
Physical Geography. R 910.0203 D5546p
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Historical
Dictionary of Indian Food. R 641.5954 A44h, 2003
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Historic
Dictionary of Somalia. R 967.73 M8968h, 2003
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Oxford Dictionary
of Geography. R 910.3 M4538d, 2004
Encyclopedias
and Handbooks: Culture
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The Cambridge
World History of Food. R 641.3009 C1446w,2000 Vol. 1-2
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Encyclopedia of
the Developing World. R 909.0972 E197d, 2006 vols. 1-3
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Encyclopedia of
India. R 954.003 E195i, 2006 vols. 1-4
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Encyclopedia of Stateless
Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World. R 909.82 M66e vols. 1-4
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Encyclopedia of the
Third World. R 909.09724 E56, 1982 vols. 1-3
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Encyclopedia of
World Cultures: Supplement. R 306.097 E56s
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Encyclopedia of World
Geography. R 910.3 E198w, 2005 Vols. 1-3
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Ethnologue:
Languages of the World. R 410 E388l, 2005
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Food in the
Ancient World from A – Z. R 394.12 D15f, 2003
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History of Food.
R 641.309 T6494h, 1994
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How to Be the
Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook. R 291.38 H847
2003
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Iran: Opposing
Viewpoints. RCT 955.05 I13e, 2006
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The Islamic
World: Past and Present. R 909.097 I45w vols. 1-3
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Multicultural
Resources on the Internet: The United States and Canada. R 973.04 G823m, 1999
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Nations of the World.
R 310 N2139w
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The Oxford
Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. R 909.097671 O25e vols. 1-4
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Penguin Atlas of
Food. R 664 M629p, 2003
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Reference Library
of European America. R 973.04 R2596e, 1998, vols. 1-4
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Worldmark
Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. R 305.8003 W927, 1998 4 vols.
Encyclopedias and Handbooks: Individual Countries
Main Stacks
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Central Asia: A
Global Studies Handbook. 958 H1947c, 2005
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Culture and
Customs of Afghanistan. 958.1 E11c, 2005
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Culture and
Customs of Angola. 967.3 O3c, 2007
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Culture and
Customs of Australia. 306.0994 C529c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of the
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Culture and
Customs of Botswana. 968.83 D411c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Brazil. 981 V7436c, 2003
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Culture and
Customs of Cameroon. 967.11 M4595c, 2005
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Culture and
Customs of Central African Republic. 967.41 W855c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Central Asian Republics. 958 A18c, 2007
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Culture and
Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 943.7 C8558c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of France 944 H1271c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Germany. 943 B4583c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of Indonesia. 959.8 F772c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Iran. 955 D222c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Ireland. 941.5 S635c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Israel. 956.94 T638c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of Italy. 945.092 K556c, 2005
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Culture and
Customs of Jordan. 956.95 S825c, 2007
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Culture and
Customs of Kenya. 967.62 S121c, 2003
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Culture and
Customs of Liberia. 966.62 O9c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Mexico. 972 S245c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of Morocco. 964 N6592c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of Mozambique. 967.9 N2397c, 2007
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Culture and
Customs of Pakistan. 954.91 M2951c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of the Palestinians. 956.94 F24c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of Peru. 985.06 F4134c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of
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Culture and
Customs of
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Culture and
Customs of Senegal. 966.3 R7334c, 2006
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Culture and
Customs of South Africa. 968 A65c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of Spain. 946.08 S263c, 2002
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Culture and
Customs of Syria. 306.095691 S825c, 2008
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Culture and
Customs of Thailand. 959.3 K642c, 2004
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Culture and
Customs of Uganda. R 967.61 O4c
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Culture and
Customs of Zambia. 968.94 T2182c, 2006
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Pakistan: A
Global Studies Handbook. 954.91 M7257p, 2007
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The Philippines:
A Global Studies Handbook. 959.9 W862p, 2006
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The Portuguese:
The Land and its People. 946.9 K1416p, 2006
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Thailand: A
Global Studies Handbook. 959.3 H6515t, 2004
Reference Collection
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African
Development Indicators 2006. R 330.96 A835d, 2006
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Countries and
Their Cultures. R 306.03 C8326t, 2001 vols.
1-4
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Encyclopedia of
Multicultural America. R 305.8 G151 vols. 1-3
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of
Mexico and Central America. R 972.01 O25m, 2001 3 vols.
Reference Resources Online
World
Book Advanced provides access to the World Book Encyclopedia, as well as a
dictionary, atlas, primary documents, e-books, and multimedia resources. Also
includes a guide to Ohio, and “Today in History.” Primary documents include
more than 1,000 Supreme Court landmark cases, documents illustrating political
campaigns for every presidential election year from 1840, and the writings of
several authors.
To access from the library homepage: Click on Quick Reference, select Encyclopedias,
then World Book.
Full-text.
Provides text from reference books from diverse areas, including religions, mythologies,
and cultures.
To access: From the library homepage, click
on Books, and select Electronic
Reference Books.
Full-text. Includes under “Food and Drink”, see A to Z of Food and Drink.
To access: From the library homepage, click
on Quick Reference, and select Oxford
Reference Online, and
then Food and Drink.
eBooks
Full-text ebook
database. Search among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including
reference books, other nonfiction, and fiction. Search by keyword, title, or
author. To access: From the
library homepage, click on Books, and then select NetLibrary.
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Use an online research database to find
articles in scholarly journals, general magazines, and newspapers.
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To access the databases below, from the
Library’s Articles in Databases page, select the Political Science
category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of the page.
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To Help You Search in the Databases:
Guides and video
tutorials are available online from
the library’s Research Help page or in
print
by the library Reference Desk on the top floor
of Spangler.
If you need
additional assistance,
ask a librarian.
Recommended Databases
Contains peer-reviewed
journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications. Covers many academic areas of study, including social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and
linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
Extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports,
commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural,
physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology,
folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the
late 19th century to the present.
CIAO
(Columbia International Affairs Online)
A
comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working
papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research
projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Subjects include social order, cross-cultural studies and cross-cultural
communications.
Provides
articles from newspapers, magazines & periodicals of the ethnic, minority
and native press in
MLA International Bibliography
Citations only. Catalogs books and
articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Updated
10 times per year.
Summarizes
literature of public affairs, such as important political, economic, and social
issues. Contains references to journal
articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, gray
literature, research and conference reports, publications of international
agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Updated monthly.
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Covers
articles of scholarly journals from 50 disciplines of the social sciences, with
searchable author abstracts and a unique feature that enables searching of
articles that cite a known author or work.
This
database features records with many sociology-based subject headings. It
contains informative abstracts from journals dating back to 1895 and provides
many direct links to full-text articles.
Finding
Periodicals in this Library
Listed below are some Geography
periodicals available in the ODU Library.