handbooks, manuals, etc

Explores the history of Costa Rica and discusses its people, culture, political system, economy, and geography. Includes maps, photographs, and a glossary.

Explores the history of Brazil and discusses its people, culture, political system, economy, and geography. Includes maps, photographs, and a glossary.

Explores the history of Argentina and discusses its people, culture, political system, economy, and geography. Includes maps, photographs, and a glossary.

Provides information about many aspects of everyday life in the 1800s, covering speech and slang, transportation, household goods, clothing, occupations, money, health and medicine, food and tobacco, amusements, courtship and marriage, slavery, the Civil War, crime, and the wild west.

Describes methods and resources for tracing family genealogies, discussing interviewing, information collection and preservation, Internet searches, and other topics; and includes an international directory of records offices and archives.

A guide to the customs and etiquette of Hawaii, providing insight into the behavior of the Hawaiian people, and discussing history, transportation, business, housing, cuisine, and other topics.

A practical guide for travellers that explains the customs, traditions, and social and business etiquette in Italy.

A guide to the customs and etiquette of Peru, providing information on the land and people, local traditions, religion and politics, business practices, communication, and other topics.

Provides tools for examining Caribbean folklore of various incarnations, such as tales, music, material culture, and religion, discussing classification, presenting folklore examples with commentary, exploring its study, covering theories and techniques, and describing its impact on mainstream and literary Caribbean culture, and provides a glossary, a bibliography, and an annotated list of Web sites.