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Washington Post (Washington, DC) (Newspaper)

National newspaper (1997 to present)

Water: No Longer Taken for Granted 2009 (Reference Book Online)

Focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding water resources. Table of contents: What is water? -- Water use -- Surface water: rivers, streams, and lakes -- Groundwater -- Drinking water--safety on tap -- Oceans and estuaries -- Wetlands -- The arid west--where water is scarce.

Weight in America: Obesity, Eating Disorders, and Other Health Risks (2009) (Reference Book Online)

Provides information from academic and governmental sources on every aspect of overweight, obesity, and eating disorders, including their prevalence in the United States, their consequences, public opinion about them, and methods of combating them.

West's encyclopedia of American law (Reference Book in Print)

Contains a comprehensive overview of American law, covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and significant persons. Call Number: KF154.W47 2005

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd ed. (Reference Book Online)

Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. Includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. Covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide.

WISERTrade (Specialized Database)

(World Institute for Strategic Economic Research) The leading online international trade statistics database in the U.S. The following are some of the series provided: US State Exports by HS, NAICS, SIC, Port; US Customs District Exports Imports by HS; US Exports and Imports by Port by SITC; Japanese Exports and Imports by HS.

Women in American Society (2008) (Reference Book Online)

Explores the lives of women in American society. Includes information on women's demographic trends, educational achievements, employment, financial status, parental responsibilities, political roles, victimization, and health issues.

World Almanac and Book of Facts (Reference Book Online)

The on-line version of the standard World Almanac & Book of Facts offers expanded content, full text searching, color photos, and links to thousands of websites. Monthly updating keeps information timely.

World Almanac Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia)

Contains complete full text of the more than 22,000 articles in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.

World Geography and Culture Online (Reference Book Online)

This database takes a global approach to facilitate the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills. This comprehensive resource makes it easy to study all aspects of a country - from its geography and physical features to its government, people, and society - providing both facts at a glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps, flags, images, statistics, news articles, a gazetteer, and more. In addition to country-specific information, this accessible online resource includes a special feature illustrating basic geographical concepts, tools to compare and rank countries, a useful geography glossary, a handy conversion calculator, and a currency converter, as well as information on U.S. states. Gateway pages for the gazetteer and for geography concepts and principles offer users a convenient way to discover geographical information.

World News Digest (General Database)

Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from Facts On File World News Digest.

World of Earth Science (Reference Book Online)

This title in Thomson Gale's "World of" Series is a comprehensive guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers, and issues relating to topics in earth science. Its encyclopedic approach offers approximately 650 entries in a convenient A-Z format, cross-reference headings, and is written in easy to understand language.

World Poverty (2009) (Reference Book Online)

Examines the forms that poverty takes around the world, its many causes, the serious negative consequences that it has for individuals and societies, and the effort to eliminate it.