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NY: Scribner's, 1988. Reference DS31 E53
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002 Reference DS4 .E53 2002
London: EuropaReference DS1 F3 (earlier editions in stacks)For more recent info, see Europa World Year Book, Reference JN1 .E85
Online versions of the print books published between 1988-1998. Provides the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Updated by shorter Country Profiles.
New York: H.W. Wilson, 2003.Reference DS706 .F25 2003Provides background info, chronology, dictionary, travel info.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1991 - .DS705 C35 1991
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Reference DS779.23 .E53 2005
Compiled and translated by The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.Oxford: Pergamon, 1988 Reference DS706 I5 1988Useful for the Chinese perspective on China
Tokyo, New York: Kodansha, 1983. 9 vol. + supplement. Reference DS805 .K633 1983. Also in stacks.
New York : Garland Pub., 1998. Reference DS805 .M63 1998
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 Reference DS805 C36 1993
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. Reference DS805 .J263 1993
Online encyclopedias, dictionaries