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 PATHFINDERS                  TOP
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media on 
a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their 
research project.

Biological Warfare

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search. If you don't already have a 
topic, you can find some lists of books on biological warfare by typing in:

Biological Warfare
Chemical Warfare
Biological Weapons
Chemical Agents (Munitions)
Bioterrorism
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Nuclear Terrorism
Terrorism

Some titles we have are:

303.6
TER		 Terrorism: Opposing Viewpoints.  New York: Greenhaven Press, 2004.
358
GAY		 Gay, Kathlyn. Silent Death : The Threat of Chemical and Biological Terrorism. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books, 2001.
358
LEV		 Levine, Herbert M. Chemical and Biological Weapons in our Times.  New 
York: Franklin Watts, 2000.
358
MAU		 Mauroni, Al. Chemical and Biological Warfare : A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
358
OST		 Osterholm, Michael T. and Schwartz, John. Living Terrors : What  America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bio-terrorist Catastrophe. New York: Delacorte Press, 2000.
358
PAC		 Payan, Gregory. Chemical and Biological Weapons : Anthrax and Sarin. 
New York: Children's Press, 2000
358
PRI		 Pringle, Laurence. Chemical and Biological Warfare : The Cruelest Weapons. 
Rev. ed. Berkeley Heights, NJ:  Enslow Publishers, 2000
358.3
BIO		 Biological Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Edited by Gary E. 
McCuen. Hudson, WI: G. E. McCuen, 1999.
358.34
CHE		 Chemical and Biological Warfare. Edited by Beth Levy and Brian Solomon.
New York: H.W. Wilson, 1999.
358.58
COB		 Cobb, Allan B. Biological and Chemical Weapons : The Debate over 
Modern Warfare. New York: Rosen, 2000.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Center for Disease Control
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/
The US Government's Center for Disease Control has a bioterrorism page with medical, 
consumer and scientific information.

National Public Radio
http://npr.org/
If you search for anthrax, bioterrorism or any related terms this website will bring you links to 
various NPR radio programs on the subject you searched. You can then listen to the program.

CNN--Cable News Network
http://www.cnn.com/
Enter your search term in the search box and you can retrieve articles from CNN.

The Bioterrorism Threat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/nation/bioterror/
Photos, video and text on the threat in 2001 from anthrax and other forms of chemical and 
biological warfare.

NewScientist.Com
http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns
Dozens of signed articles giving a scientific point of view representing New Scientist magazine.

InteliHealth.com
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/9300/335767.html
Lots of information about bioterrorism as well as information from the 
Journal of the American Medical Association about the 5 major biological germs
associated with bioterrorism.

Washington State Department of Health
http://www.doh.wa.gov/Alerts/BioTerrorismFAQ.htm
Brief but thorough facts about bioterrorism.

WebMDHealth
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/35/1728_90889.htm
A very useful question and answer format addressing myths about anthrax written by 
Luciana Borio, MD, of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts.

Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources
from home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the 
Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member 
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

 CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
11/14/08
Date last edited
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