Drugs
For the social side of things, the United Nations website briefly covers the economic and social consequences of drug abuse and illicit trafficking.
For the wilder side of pharmaceuticals, Lycaeum, a [...]
Subculture Slang
Slang Search: Crime offers a list of police terms.
Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade is the most comprehensive list of drug terms I ever expect to find. Over 2300 [...]
Writing Practice Books
The Midnight Disease is a book about the neurology of writing – from writer’s block to hypergraphia (the compulsion to write constantly). Far from a dry scholarly essay, the book [...]
Languages
And finally, RE offers a variety of articles on conlangs and advice on creating slang, dialect, or your own language: Michael A. Burstein’s “Writing the Language of the Future“; [...]
Psychology
The Merck Manual focuses on personality disorders (including antisocial personality disorder, which has been called “psychopathy” and “sociopathy”). As a warning, personality disorders can be hard to correctly diagnose because [...]
Historic Slang
Dictionary of Victorian London is much more than a dictionary; it is an extensive resource which includes dozens of period documents, including political cartoons and articles by Charles Dickens. [...]
Fashion
Lindy Hopping Although dedicated to dances from the Lindberg era, this menu item concentrates on men’s fashions that were changing as Edwardian etiquette faded away.
JJ Kent is a hidden offshoot [...]
Serial Killers & Crime
Crime Library. Everything from current cases to profiling to scams and hoaxes. The site map is at the bottom of the page, if you’re wondering how to get around the [...]
Christianity
NT Gateway The formation and selection process for the New Testament was very much human…and political. See the various links and books on NT Gateway. NTCanon.org provides helpful information, including [...]
Genre Fiction: History and Cliches
For those looking to expand their knowledge of speculative fiction even more seriously, Rutgers has an extensive list of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from reading guides to encyclopedias to [...]
Magic Systems
Wikipedia has a brief but thought-provoking entry on the historic relationship between magic and religion, from the traditional power of sacrifice to the sacredness of names. Additionally, their general article [...]
Weapons
War, Warfare, Weapons provides an overview of Japanese weapons, when they were used, why, and by whom. Includes a section on castles and armor, theories on the origin of the [...]
Communities
OWW, or the Online Writing Workshop (formerly run by publisher Del Rey) is a large community of writers on every point in the path from newbie to many-multi-published. There [...]
North American Slang
Las Vegas Lingo is a short list of words and phrases which are commonly used in casinos, but have little to no meaning outside them.
The Academy is a dictionary of [...]
Classics
Bartleby.com Poetry, fiction, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, and Grey’s Anatomy; if it’s a book you were ever required to research in a 7th grade “library skills” unit, chances are good that [...]