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Historical
Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times
to the Present,
http://hsus.cambridge.org is arranged in five categories:
Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure and Performance,
Economic Sectors, and Governance and International Relations.
The Appendixes include Weights, Measures & Monetary
Values, State and Census Regions and the origin of the
statistics. |
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or Reference. The Lexis Nexis link is active inside
Entrata under the Library link. To have access to
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2) Be an active student enrolled in the current term
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Key
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Reference Center to provide author biographies, literary
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places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world
history
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sources, timelines, maps & charts, biographies, images
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been placed on the title. See the QuickStart
Guide for more details.
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Oxford
English Dictionary Online*
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This dictionary is the authority on the evolution
of English words, giving the meaning, history, and pronunciation
of over 1/2 million words, past and present. |
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The
Saskia
Collection contains 30,000 digital images
of paintings, sculpture, and architecture, including images
from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological
sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt. Many of the
images can be found in 19 major art history texts.
To search only the Saskia Art Images, click on the "Clear
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Sanborn
Insurance Maps
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More than 660,000 maps, created to assist fire insurance
companies as they assessed risk associated with insuring
properties, chart the growth and development of more than
12,000 American cities. |
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