CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY REPORT
8TH GRADE
MR. RUSS

This is a guide to the materials located in MBA’s Patrick Wilson Library that will help you gather information for this research project.

Books

We have listed specific books that will help your research, but you will also need to use the MBA Online Catalog for more titles. Searching by “Subject” and “Keyword” will obtain results. Mrs. Bramwell and Ms. Tilley will be glad to help you find these books once you decide which titles are best for you. Some suggested subject headings are:

Agriculture Religions
Agriculture-Environmental aspects Energy
Climate Petroleum
Weather Air-Pollution
Ocean Comparative government
Ocean-Environmental aspects Capitalism
Global warming Communism
Greenhouse effect Democracy
China-History Monarchy
Greece-History Socialism
Mayas Ecology
Ethnology
Language
Population
Human ecology

Non-fiction Books

290 LIF The World’s Great Religions
304.2 ERI The Human Volcano: Population Growth as Geologic Force
305.8 JEN East Africa
305.8 ZUR West Africa
321 TAM Monarchy
321.8 DOW Democracy
321.9 TAM Dictatorship
330.12 DOW Capitalism
332.46 FRI Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
333.79 ENE Energy Alternatives: Opposing Viewpoints
333.79 SHA Energy
333.792 GIA Nuclear Power of the Future
333.792 JON Solar Power of the Future
333.793 BIC Oil Power of the Future
333.793 RID Coal Power of the Future
333.9 TEC Wind Power of the Future
333.91 COL The Living Ocean
333.95 END Endangered Oceans: Opposing Viewpoints
335.43 DOW Communism
363.7 HIL Africa and the Middle East: a Continental Overview of Environmental Issues
363.7 HIL Europe : a Continental Overview of Environmental Issues
363.7 HIL North America : a Continental Overview of Environmental Issues
363.7 HIL Australia , Oceania, and Antarctica: a Continental Overview of Environmental Issues
363.7 HIL Latin America and the Caribbean: a Continental Overview of Environmental Issues
363.738 IS Is Global Warming a Threat?
363.738 SHA Global Warming
410 PEI The Story of Language
550 ERI Environmental Geology
551.4701 WHI Restless Oceans
551.5 WEA The Changing World of Weather
574.5 TAN The Rainforest
577.34 JOH Rain Forests: a Pro/Con Issue
621.042 CHA Energy
621.48 KID Quarks and Sparks: the Story of Nuclear Power
931 COT Ancient China
938 NAR Ancient Greece
951 MOR China , Its History and Culture
970.004 STU The Mysterious Maya
972.8 TRO The Maya
978 DE The Dust Bowl

Reference Books

R 200 ATL Atlas of the World’s Religions
R 200 CON The Continuum Dictionary of Religion
R 200 OXF The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
R 300 WOR World at Risk: a Global Issues Sourcebook
R 303.48 POG The Global Community, 1975-2000
R 305 STA The Statesman’s Yearbook, 2004: the Politics, Cultures, and Economics of the World
R 306.03 JUN Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
R 320.3 PIO Governments of the World
R 324.2 WOR World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties
R 330 ECO Economics Basics
R 330.03 PAS The Harper Collins Dictionary of Economics
R 363.34 ENG Dangerous Planet: the Science of Natural Disasters
R 551.46 DAY v.4 Exploring the Ocean
R 525 ELS Planet Earth
R 577.8 WHI Biomes and Habitats
R577.82 ECO Deserts
R577.82 Wetlands
R 577.82 ECO UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes
R 909.08 HIS History of the Modern World
R 920.02 DIC Dictionary of World Biography
R 939.4 ANC The Ancient Near East
R 951 CAM Cambridge Encyclopedia of China
R 951 CUL Cultural Atlas of China
R 980 LAT Latin America : History and Culture

Online Databases

These electronic databases are available through the MBA library.

Britannica Online
Country Watch
Grolier Online: Lands and Peoples

Internet Sites

We discourage students from using search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. for basic searching because some of the sites found may contain unreliable information. Try these sites listed below:

Energy and Environment
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/energy.html

Earth Trends: the Environmental Information Portal
http://earthtrends.wri.org

Major Biomes of the World
www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html

EnviroLink
www.envirolink.org

United Nations Population Information Network
www.un.org/popin/

National Geographic Online
www.nationalgeographic.com

NOAA’s El Niño Pages
www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/1997.html

Global History: Political Systems
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/politicalsystems/index.cfm

The World Bank Group
www.worldbank.org