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Domestication: How Humans Shape the Natural World

PWR 1RC - Fall 2014 - Instructor: Carpenter, R.
Last Updated: 22-Sep-2014

A guide to resources for PWR 1RC: Domestication: How Humans Shape the Natural World. Course topics include: the depth of our relationships with plants and animals, how these relationships help define what we consume, and how scientific information can be selectively represented to serve many ends.

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General and interdisciplinary
Biology

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Background/Reference sources

Following are some reference sources that you can use to find background information on your topic as well as other references.

Encyclopedia of agricultural, food, and biological engineering / edited by Dennis R. Heldman, Carmen I. Moraru.
2nd ed. Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2011.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » TP368.2 .E57 2011 V.1
AccessScience [electronic resource] : McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology online / McGraw-Hill.
[United States] : McGraw-Hill, [2000?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Gale Virtual reference library [electronic resource].
Farmington Hills, MI : Thomson Gale, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
WorldAlmanac [electronic resource].
[Dublin, Ohio : OCLC ; New York City, N.Y. : World Almanac Education Group]
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Article resources

Use these resources to search for articles on your topic.

Academic search premier [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
AGRICOLA [electronic resource].
Beltsville, Md. : The Library, <1970>-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
BIOSIS citation index [electronic resource].
[New York?] : Thomson Reuters.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
CAB Abstracts [electronic resource].
Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CAB International, [19--]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Environmental sciences & pollution management [electronic resource].
[S.l.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, [199-]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
GreenFILE [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
PubMed [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : National Center for Biotechnology Information, [1997]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Web of science core collection.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Media resources

Following are a couple of sources for news and advertisments.  You will find that you can also access lots of more recent content on YouTube and other video sites.

Access world news

Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources

AdViews

Historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s.

AdForum

AdForum.com gathers advertising information for over 20,000 agencies and 120,000 campaigns (TV, print, interactive, etc.).

Websites

Union of concerned scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists is an independent science and advocacy organization working on issues like Scientific Integrity, Global Warming, Clean Vehicles, Clean Energy, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons & Global Security, and Food and Agriculture.
American journal of bioethics
The American Journal of Bioethics is to provide the bioethics community with informed research of the current bio-medical issues of today. Spanning across many disciplines, the journal consists of through target articles, peer commentary, book reviews, qualitative research, literary criticism, photography and graphic arts, and comments.

Manage your references

As you're collecting references for your assignments, you might want to try using a reference manager, like RefWorks.  RefWorks not only tracks your papers, it helps you write your bibliography.

Check out the libray's Bibliography Management page for more information about other tools to manage your references.