WORLD BOOK ADVANCED IS A POWERFUL REFERENCE TOOL
Primary sources at your fingertips
Description:
Resources
include encyclopedic content, e-books, images and sounds, research
tools, and a vast collection of primary source documents highlighting
the accomplishments of the greatest minds throughout history. (World Book Advanced is available to Schools and Libraries only.)
Key features include:
- A powerful search engine that directs users to their desired content with maximum efficiency.
- Research tools
- including dictionary, atlas, and local and country research guides -
that help users find and compile the data and information they need.
- Create and save features that offer users the ability to use site content in unique ways. They can save and annotate research results from World Book and external sources, create timelines, build citations, and more.
- Access to Australian and New Zealand Education Associations and National and State Curriculum Guides.
- A customisable interface and personalised home page content that create a unique user experience.
- Over 5,500 E-books in a single search.
- Timeline builder.
- Shared Pathfinders.
- Integrated search.
- Lexile measures (selected articles). More information on Lexile measures.
Primary Sources at your fingertips -
Analysis
of primary documents is an essential skill for secondary and
post-secondary students. Students can find thousands of original,
eyewitness, and historical source documents, as well as important works
of literature, including:
- Marco Polo's Account of Japan and Java
- The Overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
- Einstein's Atomic Bomb Proposal
- Recent and historical speeches
- Contemporaneous accounts of historical events
- Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Captain Cook's Account of a Voyage round the World 1768 - 1771
- New Zealand, Treaty of Waitangi, 1840
- The works of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson
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