Social Sciences

Includes biographical information and economic forecasts.

Paper by Donald J. Brown and Abraham Robinson.

1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Background and related links.

Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University. Includes biography, curriculum vitae, and teaching materials.

Fully republished Online.

Sumner's essay suggesting that the misunderstood ambitions and intentions of the wealthy would benefit everyone.

Collection of links to economics-related journals.

Provides short essays on current topics covering local, national, and international economic issues.

An article in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics by David Friedman.

Oberlin College

University of Pittsburgh

Australian and New Zealand Map Society Incorporated offers a journal and yearly conference for map enthusiasts.

Well researched and intricately drawn maps for publishers, museums, tourism, legal and commercial uses.

Provides custom cartographic, street map and GIS digital mapping services.

A summary of the undergraduate geography program at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Aims to provide a wide range of catalogued and tested links for Geography students at Keystage 3, GCSE and 'A' Level. It also has a new Virtual Fieldwork section.

Large collection of online games and activities created by a teacher for geography studies.

Geospatial data provider based in Australia, Asia, Africa and New Zealand. Products include satellite imagery, aerial photography, survey, pictometry, 3D models, and LiDAR.

Geography department web site. Links to CSULB Geography GIS/Map Lab and courses in GIS, cartography, and remote sensing.

Academic website containing any and all of the University's GIS offerings, from course offerings, special interest groups, to maps.

Offers examples and exercises demonstrating GIS techniques.

A public discussion list to which anyone can subscribe and contribute by posting job vacancies in GIS related fields. Very short messages from those seeking jobs are acceptable.

Event that formalizes the practice of GIS users and vendors of opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications.

As a partner organization with the Federal Geographic Data Committee, CGIA is working to define and develop California's portion of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Image processing software for map production. Provider of DEM, Land Cover, and Orthoimages geographic databases.

An application to view, edit, and convert DEM and SDTS DEM files for the Mac OS.

System for managing spatial raster databases in GIS systems.

Software developer in geographical information technology and fabrication of electronics maps.

Novapoint tools for surveyors in civil engineering of infrastructure and landscape design. Overview of products and profile of company based in Sandvika, Norway.

National Geographic produces a wide range of public programs, including exhibits, speaker series, films, concerts and special events around the U.S. and abroad.

Advises the British government on the proper writing of geographical names for places and features outside the United Kingdom. Includes information on English conventional names and Romanisation tables.

Maps of toponymic element distribution in the Ecuadorian highlands plus some preliminary comments.

Covers membership and the association's annual journal, Teanga.

Offers MA, PhD and postgraduate degrees in applied linguistics and TESOL.

Handouts for a Language Policy college course. Somewhat cryptic, but a good introduction or review.

Diane August and Kenji Hakuta, Editors. A review of the current knowledge about the education of limited-English proficient students.

Statistical part-of-speech tagger trainable on different languages and tagsets. Trained and trainable versions. Online demo, noncommercial licensing information, documentation.

Research in statistical language modelling, language understanding, knowledge discovery, linguistic annotation, high performance computing, and digital language archiving.

3-day conference from the 15th-17th of July, 2002 at the University of Leicester, UK. Includes call for papers, program and registration.

February 19-22. University of Southern California. Includes conference program, both oral and poster presentations, as well as invited talks.

March 12-13. Keio University. Tokyo, Japan. Includes conference program and links to the abstracts of presentations given.

The site provides information on the call for papers, conference program, book of abstracts, and invited speakers. Calgary, Alberta. April 28-30.

Contains 14 languages for online learning, including grammar and vocabulary.

Translate English phrases into many different languages, and courses in various topics.

Learn languages through lessons such as alphabet, adjectives, nouns, plural, gender, numbers, phrases, grammar, vocabulary, verbs, exam, audio, and translation.

An introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and numbering. Interactive examples allow users to create hieroglyphic numbers and fractions.

Software for typesetting Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Macintosh.

An attempt to create a list of concepts, described in English, along with words to express those concepts in several natural and artificial languages.

Annotated links to resources for teachers of a variety of languages.

From an email list on foreign language learning in Grades K-8. Designed for parents, teachers and administrators.