Site Contents
This file is designed to help users find the content they seek in World Book Advanced (WBA). Content is listed below by content type and alphabetically. Additional information can be found in the Customer Training Guide and Newsletter [Note: These links will take you out of WBA.]
Alphabetic List of Contents
Atlas
The approximately 750 maps in the online atlas cover the whole globe interactively, linking to each other, and directly to articles on continents, countries, states, provinces, cities and other places shown on the maps.
Search Atlas Maps | Browse Atlas Maps
Back in Time
The approximately 14,000 historic articles from past World Book Year Books present a you-are-there account of the most significant events of each year. Users can search or browse for topics or find links to Back in Time articles in the Related Information box within many World Book articles.
Search Back in Time | Browse Back in Time by Title | Browse Back in Time by Year
Citation Builder
The citation builder provides the user with a clear format of how to cite the sources they are most likely to encounter (printed and online books, reference sources, magazines, newspapers, etc.). The citation builder offers Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), and Harvard bibliography style formats.
Dictionary
The dictionary contains approximately 250,000 entries. On pages with the Tools box, users can double-click on any word on the page to be taken to the entry in the dictionary for the selected word. [Some proper nouns, and most numbers, are not included in the dictionary.]
E-books
World Book Advanced includes thousands of full-text English-language electronic books (e-books) in the areas of fiction and non-fiction, as well as books in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Latin, Flemish, and Portuguese. E-books are accessible through the E-book Center on the homepage as well as the main search box. The E-book Center enables users to search and browse the e-book collection by author, title, genre, and language. The e-books' contents are listed in the left-hand index column, allowing users to skip directly to the section they want. A selection of the most popular e-books can be downloaded for use on portable reading devices. E-books are available in ePub and Mobi formats. Instructions for using e-books on popular portable reading devices can be found here. View a list of e-books: By title | By author | Downloadable E-books
Educators' Tools
This online center for educators contains topic enrichment resources, classroom activities, links to lesson plans, and professional development links.
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Spanish speakers and students of Spanish can benefit from the clear, concise information in Estudiantil Hallazgos, World Book's intermediate Spanish-language encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Articles
World Book Advanced offers more than 26,000 encyclopedia articles that are carefully edited to suit the educational level of the users most likely to use them, from grades 4 through 12 and adults.
Search Encyclopedia Articles | Browse Encyclopedia Articles by Title | Browse Encyclopedia Articles by Subject Category
In the Headlines
In the headlines is a feature that provides current news headlines via RSS feeds from Reuters News. RSS (really simple syndication) service is a means by which Reuters News offers feeds of story headlines to World Book Advanced in XML format.
Magazine Articles
EBSCO Content Solutions provides a list of relevant magazine articles published in the last three years for many World Book articles. Users can find magazine articles within the Related Information boxes of many articles. The EBSCO publications include:
Accent on Living
Advancing the Consumer Interest
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
American City & County
American Demographics
American Economist
American Enterprise
American Indian Quarterly
American Journal of Health Studies
American Review of Canadian Studies
American Sociologist
American Spectator
American Studies International
American Visions
Americas
Animals Today
Arab Studies Quarterly
Armed Forces & Society
Arts & Activities
Asian Affairs: An American Review
Auto Racing Digest
Background Notes on Countries of the World
Baseball Digest
Basketball Digest
Bioscience
Black Enterprise
Black Issues in Higher Education
Black Scholar
Bowling Digest
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Canada & the World Backgrounder
Canada-United States Law Journal
Canadian Ethnic Studies
Canadian Journal of Criminology
Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology
Careers & Colleges
Children's Digest
Christian Century
Church & State
Cineaste
Cobblestone
Commentary
Commonwealth
Current Issues in Economics & Finance
E Magazine: The Environmental Magazine
Education Digest
Environment
Europe
Executive Speeches
Family Economics & Nutrition Review
FDA Consumer
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Focus
Focus on Geography
Food Review
Football Digest
Foreign Policy
Futurist
Geographical Review
Global Governance
HealthFacts
Hemisphere: A Magazine of the Americas
Hispanic Review
History Review
History Today
Hockey Digest
Humanist
Humanities
International Law Update
International Wildlife
Internet World
Journal of American Culture
Journal of American Ethnic History
Journal of Cultural Geography
Journal of Interamerican Studies & World Affairs
Journal of Popular Film & Television
Journal of World History
Latin American Politics & Society
Medical Update
Modern Age
Mother Earth News
Monthly Energy Review
Monthly Labor Review
Nation
National Parks
National Review
National Wildlife
New Leader
New Statesman
New York Amsterdam News
Newsweek
Occupational Outlook Quarterly
Oceania
Papers on Language & Literature
Peacekeeping & International Relations
Pediatrics for Parents
Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
Presidents & Prime Ministers
Psychology Today
Public Interest
Ranger Rick
Science News
Science Now
Scientific American Explorations
Soccer Digest
Society
Sporting News
TravelAmerica
Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter
U.S. Department of State Dispatch
Washington Monthly
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Weatherwise
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Wilderness
Worklife Report
World Affairs
World & I
World Policy Journal
My Research
This feature is designed to allow users to personalize their World Book Advanced experience with a private profile to save their research. Profiles are user name and password protected.
Pathfinders
Pathfinders are user-created resource guides. They are created on curriculum topics and include primary source documents.
Pictures and Illustrations
More than 10,000 pictures illustrate World Book articles. Pictures include photographs, animal illustrations, reproductions of great works of art, and much more.
Search Pictures | Browse Pictures
Primary Sources
World Book Advanced provides primary sources in the form of documents, letters, books, speeches, articles, records, interviews, and images. Primary sources are documents created during the time period studied or well after in the form of memoirs and oral histories.
Sounds
World Book Advanced offers audio clips of bird songs, popular and classical music, national anthems, and much more. To play sound clips, video clips, and animations, users will need the Adobe Flash plug-in, which is already installed on most browsers. For those computers without the plug-in installed, it is available by a FREE download from Adobe (http://www.adobe.com).
Special Reports
The nearly 400 in-depth feature articles focus on issues surrounding timely topics, important current events, and obituaries of famous people. Users can search or browse for topics or find links to Special Reports in the Related Information box within many World Book articles.
Search Special Reports | Browse Special Reports
Tables
World Book's approximately 2,000 tables cover a huge range from facts about countries and other places, to important dates.
Teaching with Documents
World Book Advanced's Teaching with Documents are lesson plans focusing on one or more primary source images. The Teaching with Documents pieces feature historical background text, enlargeable images, discussion questions, worksheets, and book lists. The title list, categorized by topic, is available here. New Teaching with Documents will be added regularly; check back for updates.
Timelines
World Book Advanced offers hundreds of generated timelines, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures. World Book Advanced also provides users the opportunity to build their timelines, adding events, descriptions, and images.
Today in History
Each day of the year World Book Advanced showcases important persons or events associated with that date.
Videos and Animations
World Book Advanced offers more than 100 videos and animations. To play sound clips, users will need the Adobe Flash plug-in, which is already installed on most browsers. For those computers without the plug-in installed, it is available by a FREE download from Adobe (http://www.adobe.com).
Search Videos and Animations | Browse Videos and Animations
Websites
Editors have selected more than 7,000 websites, which are linked to relevant World Book articles. Users can find websites within the Related Information boxes of most articles.
What's New
Explore some of the highlights of World Book's many new and revised articles.
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A revolutionary site for younger students that infuses creativity and wonder in learning, World Book Kids features thousands of articles and multimedia, a bright, graphical design with dual navigation--search and browse--and fun and inventive activities with hands-on lesson plans that incorporate a variety of core curriculum subjects and correlate to national standards.
World Book Research Libraries
Delve into the World Book Research Libraries' more than 250,000 documents and experience the ideas, events, and literary works of the world.