RECR150: Play Across Diverse Cultures: RECR150

• CIA World Factbook

  The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
• Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society

  Explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Covers leisure and recreational activities of children and adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman Empire to video games today.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window

  Over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Learn about Using GVRL to Find Background Material. (Gale)

• Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window

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  Contains the full text of more than 700 newspapers, providing more than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 699,000 television and radio news transcripts. (EBSCO)

• News This link opens in a new window

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  Article from "more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts." (Gale)