Gall, Timothy L

Contains over two hundred articles that examine the history, economy, society, culture, and politics of the world's countries and dependencies, providing information in more than forty categories, and features an in-depth look at the United Nations system and the organization's related agencies.

A nine-volume encyclopedia that presents profiles of 192 countries of the world, arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Each entry is divided into thirty-five standardized sections on topics like agriculture, education, and climate.

Provides geographic, demographic, economic, and social information about the ten Canadian provinces and three territories, organized within forty subject categories such as location and size, languages, forestry, commerce, health, arts, and famous people.

Provides information on 192 countries on subjects including geography, demographics, economics, and social information.

Profiles each of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. dependencies, and the U.S. as a whole, presenting introductory facts such as the origin of the state name, song, and motto, and providing information in forty standard categories, covering topics that include location and size, history, labor, and housing.

Profiles each of the states and territories of the U.S., providing geographic, demographic, economic, and social information in thirty-nine categories as well as maps, flags, photos, bibliographies, and a glossary.

Contains entries that provide information on over five hundred world cultures, each with coverage of twenty different areas of daily life, focusing on the traditions, living conditions, and personalities of people in modern times, rather than in the past. Grouped by geographic region.