Overview of human development
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International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family from Gale Reference Library
International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, Second Edition provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on international perspectives and issues surrounding marriage and family. It includes articles specific to countries and to religious traditions, examining the history of family life within these cultures, and discussing how families have been affected by political and social change.
Politics and Social Science Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
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Politics and Social Science Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across 23 subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 65,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on a broad spectrum of the social sciences, including the arts, economics, psychology, psychiatry, and religion.
ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based organization providing access to the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The archive of data sets includes a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law.
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