Fayetteville High School Library
A Browsing Guide

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000-009   UFOs & extraterrestrials, computers
    Sample titles: Circular Evidence (crop circles); Virtual Reality Primer; Alien Contact: The First 50 Years
070-079   Journalism
     Sample title: How to Watch TV News

130-139   ESP, ghosts, witchcraft, astrology, reincarnation, handwriting analysis
    Sample titles: Why People Believe Weird Things; Astrology Encyclopedia
150-159   Psychology, including dreams and death & dying
    Sample title: Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
170-179   Ethics, including cloning, euthanasia, and animal rights
    Sample titles: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings; Eating with a Conscience
180-189   Philosophy
    Sample titles: Living Yoya; Native American Wisdom; Wisdom of Confucius

200-289  Christianity and Religion in America
    Sample titles: Searching for God in America; Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming
290-299   World religion, mythology
    Sample titles: Cults in America; Hot Chocolate for the Mystic Soul; Hercules; Druids; Carlos Castaneda

300-309   Women, minorities, media, violence, childhood, adolescence, prejudice, family, community
    Sample titles: Asphalt Nation; Twins; The Body Project; The Scapegoat Generation; Beauty Bound;
    Uppity Women of Ancient Times; United They Hate; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Sisters; Haves and Have
    Nots in the Information Age; Creating Community Anywhere; Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together
    in the Cafeteria?
320-329   Politics, civil rights, privacy, hate groups, immigration, CIA, foreign relations
    Sample titles:  Eyes on the Prize; Uneasy Neighbors: US and Cuba; Children of the Swastika
330-339   Economics, Work, Labor, Resources, Business
    Sample titles: Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone; The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America; When
    Teenagers Work; Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars and
    Enslaved Your Children
340-349 Law
    Sample titles: Free Speech for Me-But Not For Thee; Rights of Students; Post Mortem: The OJ Simpson
    Case
350-359   Government, Military & War
    Sample titles: NASA; The Art of War; Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces
360-369 Social Problems (such as AIDS, disabilities, drug abuse, mental illness, suicide, homelessness, poverty, adoption, violence, accidents, police brutality, gun control, terrorism, pollution, crime)
370-379 Education
    Sample titles: School Desegregation in Fayetteville; Remember Everything You Read; Real High School
    Handbook
380-389 Transportation, Commerce, Communication
    Sample titles: In Sam (Walton) We Trust; One Nation Under Television
390-399 Folklore, Custom, Etiquette, Fashion, Holidays
    Sample titles: Traveler's Guide to African Customs and Manner; Kimono; Corpses, Coffins, and Crypt;
    Myths and Legend of Japan

400-490   Language (including alphabets, sign language, slang, world languages)
    Sample titles: Black English, Cowboy Slang, Doublespeak, Maya Hieroglyphs

500-509 General Science (Introduction and Overviews)
    Sample titles: The Science Class You Wish You Had; Five Biggest Ideas in Science
510-519 Math
    Sample titles: A History of Pi; Randomness; Overcoming Math Anxiety
520-529   Astronomy
    Sample titles: From Quarks to Quasars; NightWatch; Black Holes
530-539 Physics
    Sample titles: Heisenberg Probably Slept Here; Einstein for Beginners
540-549 Chemistry
    Sample titles: The Most Beautiful Molecule; Rocks and Minerals
550-559 Earth Science
    Sample titles: Naked Earth; Fire on Earth; The Weather Companion
560-569 Paleontology (Fossils)
    Sample titles: The Hot-Blooded Dinosaurs; Lucy
570-579 Biology (Habitats, Evolution, Genetics)
    Sample titles: Wildlife Habitats; Darwin for Beginners; Hunt for Life on Mars
580-589 Botany (Plants)
    Sample titles: Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
590-599 Zoology (Animals)
    Sample titles: Ants at Work; Tracking the Vanishing Frogs; Arkansas Mammals; Genome; Rat; Great
    American Wolf

600-609 Inventions
    Sample titles: The Way Things Work; Mothers of Invention
610-609 Medicine and Health, including the body, nutrition, exercise, viruses, alternative medicine, mental health, drugs, disease
     Sample titles: Sleep Thieves; Inside the Brain;, The Male Body: An Owner's Manual; The Hot Zone;
    Driven to Distraction (ADD); Young Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer Prevention; Fat of the Land
620-629 Technology (including flight, automobiles)
    Sample titles: Wind Power; Superconductivity; Train Talk; Flight in America; Automobiles of the 50s; How
    to Buy a Used Car; Living in Space
630-639 Agriculture (crops, pets, livestock)
    Sample titles: The Dying of the Trees, Farm, Practical Gardener, The Complete Cow; Aquarium Fish;
    Horses
640-649 Food History, Cookbooks, Homemaking, Beauty, Dating, Child Care
    Sample titles: Teenager's Guide to the Real World; Your Child: Birth to Age 6; Help! My Heart Is Breaking
650-659 Business, Advertising
    Sample titles: How to Turn an Interview into a Job; Girls and Young Women Entrepreneurs; Why We Buy
660-669 Genetic Engineering, Manufacturing
    Sample titles: The Science of Jurassic Park; The Plastics Age
680-689 Guns, Home Repair, Furniture
    Sample titles: Handguns; Woodworker's Handbook
690-699 Building
    Sample titles: Building with Stone; Solar Designing; Bird Boxes & Feeders for the Garden

700-709 World Art, Art History
    Sample titles: The Social History of Art; Black Art; Women Artists
720-729 Architecture
    Sample titles: ABC of Architecture; Great Cathedrals
730-739 Sculpture, Coins, Pottery Making
    Sample titles: Make Your Own Mobiles; The Incredible Clay Book
740-749 Drawing, Cartoons, Crafts, Calligraphy, Needlework, Decorating
    Sample titles: Art of Animation; Papercraft and Origami; Fabric Painting
750-759 Painting
    Sample titles: Picasso; Mastery of Oil Painting; Italian Painters of the Renaissance
760-769 Printing
    Sample titles: M. C. Escher; Nature Printing
770-779 Photography
    Sample titles: Careers for Shutterbugs; Fun with Your Camera; Story of Photography
780-789 Music
    Sample titles: The Land Where the Blues Began; Gangsta; Woodstock
790-799 Games, Movies, Television, Radio, Theater, Dance, Sports, Hunting
    Sample titles: Circus; Star Wars: The Magic of Myth; Sesame Street Unpaved; Rodeo
    in America;Baseball's Dream Teams; Modern Backpacker's Handbook; Wheels
800-809 Writing, World Literature
    Sample titles: Zen in the Art of Writing, Legends from Latin America
810-819 American Literature (including poetry, drama, and essays)
    Sample titles: Beat Voices; Big Book of New American Humor
820-829 British Literature
    Sample titles: Irish Verse; Understanding Macbeth; Complete Works of Saki
830-889 European Literature
    Sample titles: Spanish Poetry; Black Ships Before Troy
890-899 Russian, Japanese, Chinese, African, and Native American Literature
    Sample titles: Haiku; Heritage of African Poetry; 2-Rabbit, 7-Wind

900-909 World History, Geography
    Sample titles: Battles That Changed the Modern World; Companion Guide to Paris; The 60's Scrapbook
920-929 Genealogy, Names, and Flags
    Sample titles: The Best Baby Name Book; The Flag Book
930-939 Ancient History (Egypt, Greece, Rome) and Archeology
    Sample titles: Pyramids; Man in the Ice; Alexander the Great; Unearthing Atlantis
940-949 European History (including World Wars I & II)
    Sample titles: The Celts; Voices from the Camps; Illustrated History of France
950-959 Asian History (including Gulf, Vietnam, and Korean Wars)
    Sample titles:  Tiananmen Square; India; If I Die in a Combat Zone; Remembering the Gulf War
960-969 African History
    Sample titles: Nations of Africa; Metropolis: Ancient African Town
970-979 North American History (including Native Americans)
    Sample titles: Inside Central America; The Seventies; 13th Gen; History of Arkansas; Aztecs
980-989 South American History
    Sample titles: Atlantis: The Andes Solution; The Incas; Brazil
990-999 Other History (Australia, Arctic, Universal, etc)
    Sample titles: Bali; The Battle for the Falklands; Vanishing Arctic, Are We Alone?


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updated 1/18/2001