Human Development Senior Seminar -- HUM DEV - 440
Dr. Illene Noppe
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The purpose of this guide is to help you take an interdisciplinary approach to studying Afghansitan and making connections between what you learn and the novel Kite Runner.
Reference Sources
| Title: | Countries and their cultures / Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, editors. |
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| Table of Contents: | v. 1. Afghanistan to Czech Republic |
| Location: | Reference [non-circulating] (3rd floor left) |
| Call Number: | GN307 .C68 2001 |
| Number of Items: | 4 |
| Status: | Not Checked Out |
| Library Has: | v. 1 - v. 4 |
| Title: | World encyclopedia of political systems and parties / edited by George E. Delury. |
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| Table of Contents: | Vol. 1. Afghanistan-France |
| Location: | Reference [non-circulating] (3rd floor left) |
| Call Number: | JF2011 .W67 1999 |
| Number of Items: | 3 |
| Status: | Not Checked Out |
| Library Has: | v. 1 - v. 3 |
| Title: | The Continuum political encyclopedia of the Middle East / Avraham Sela, editor. |
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| Location: | Reference [non-circulating] (3rd floor left) |
| Call Number: | DS62.8 .P64 2002 |
| Number of Items: | 1 |
| Status: | Not Checked Out |
| Title: | The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa / executive editor, Trevor Mostyn, advisory editor, Albert Hourani. |
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| Location: | Reference [non-circulating] (3rd floor left) |
| Call Number: | |
| Number of Items: | 1 |
| Status: | Not Checked Out |
| Title: | The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world / John L. Esposito, editor in chief. |
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| Location: | Reference [non-circulating] (3rd floor left) |
| Call Number: | |
| Number of Items: | 4 |
| Status: | Not Checked Out |
| Library Has: | v. 1-v. 4 |
- Library of Congress Country Study
- U.S. Department of State Country Profile
- Afghanistan: Selected Internet Resources
Finding Books
- Cofrin Library Catalog -- Find books owned by the Cofrin Library. It is recommended that you start by changing the "Find words in" from "Keyword by Date" to "Subject Heading". Enter Afghanistan and run the search. You will come back with a list of 50 subject headings each containing 1 or more titles. Note that the most general category at the top -- Afghanistan -- contains 15 items. Regarless of your disciplinary approach you will want to consult some of these. Use the index to look for specific terms in the book. Next, look down the list to see if your discipline is a category.
Finding Magazine and Journal Articles
- Historical Abstracts
Description: Indexes publications devoted to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Coverage: 1954-
- JSTOR
Description: JSTOR is unique because the contains complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in PDF full text format. Many journals reach back to the 1800s.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 2000.
- Project Muse
Description: Project Muse provides the full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Coverage: 1995 -
- Humanities Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting of English- language periodicals on disciplines including literature and language.
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately 1990 to the present.
- Sociological Abstracts
Description: The Sociological Abstracts database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA) is also included as part of this database, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, neglect, aging, health, energy, environment, housing, education, women and development, disaster preparedness and risk assessment.
Coverage: 1963 -
- Social Sciences Full Text
Description: Indexes and abstracts over 400 English language periodicals. Topics include anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects.
Coverage: 1983 -
More General Databases Containing a Mix of Popular Magazine and Scholarly Journal Articles
- Academic Search Premier from EbscoHost
Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier from EbscoHostcontains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
- OmniFILE FT Mega (Wilson)
Description: Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
Coverage: 1994 -
Newspapers
- Historical Newspapers - The New York Times
Description: Historical Newspapers-The New York Times has full text and full image articles from the New York Times dating back to the 19th century.
Coverage: 1851-2001; more recent articles can be found in Proquest Newspapers.
- Proquest Newspapers
Description: Indexing, abstracting and full-text of over 300 state, national and international newspapers. Includes full-text coverage of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Madison Capital Times.
Coverage: 1989 -