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Is your state trending toward healthier habits? What kind of exercise activities are popular among residents? And are lyme disease or salmonella infections prevalent where you live? This guide features more than 500 tables - compiled from an authoritative sources - of health care data for the 50 United States and Washington, DC.

A new addition to Europa's popular 'Territories of the World' series, The Territories of Indonesia provides invaluable information on this diverse country. The book supplies an in-depth guide to both the regional dimensions of the area and its inter-provincial politics.

Key Features:

• informative introductory essays provide an impartial background on regional aspects of the Republic
• a chronology covers the major events in the area's political and economic history including: colonial rule, independence, guided democracy, Suharto and...

• Over 1,400 pages of economic and demographic statistics, wide-ranging directory material and authoritative articles
• Contributions from over 50 leading experts on African affairs
• Incisive analysis of the latest available information.

General Survey

• Thoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by acknowledged experts covering the issues affecting the area as a whole: Reforming Africa: Continuities and Changes; Economic Trends in Africa South of the Sahara 2006; Health and Medical Issues in Sub-Saharan...

This latest eighteenth edition of South America, Central America and the Caribbean is scrupulously revised and updated, bringing you impartial and comprehensive coverage of this vast area.

Key Features:

• an unrivalled survey on the countries and territories of this immense region
• includes contributions from acknowledged authorities who examine topics of regional importance.

General Survey

Thoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by acknowledged experts covering issues of regional importance are examined by...

A definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic and directory data.

It includes:

• over 1,500 pages of economic and demographic statistics, wide-ranging directory material and authoritative articles
• contributions from over fifty leading experts on African affairs
• incisive analysis of the latest available information.

General Survey

• Thoroughly revised and updated analytical articles written by acknowledged experts covering the issues affecting the area as a whole, including:...

The International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2010 provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world. Now in its twenty-fifth edition, the book is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and covers the most important authors and writers at work today. This title will prove an invaluable acquisition for journalists, television and radio companies, public and academic libraries, PR companies, literary organizations and anyone needing up-to-date information in this field. Entries: Biographical...

Now in its fifty-sixth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geo-political and economic information for this important world area.

Key Features

• covers the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Yemen
• includes topical contributions from acknowledged experts on the region
• accurately and impartially records the latest political and economic developments
• provides comprehensive data on all major organizations in the region.

General Survey

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This text provides extensive coverage of the political, economic and social affairs of the region of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. It includes incisive analysis, invaluable statistical surveys and useful directory sections.

Now in its seventh edition, South Asia 2010 provides an in-depth library of information on the countries and territories of the region. Exhaustively researched by Europa's experienced editorial team, this title includes a vast range of up-to-date economic, political and statistical data. Combining impartial analysis with facts and figures, South Asia 2010 provides a unique overall perspective on this increasingly important region. The book is divided into three sections: General Survey containing introductory essays by key specialists providing impartial coverage of issues of regional...

This renowned reference title provides essential statistical and directory material on these vast North American nations and the issues surrounding them. This edition brings together statistical, factual and directory information on these two vast nations and their constituent states, provinces and territories.

Globally renowned for its accuracy, consistency and reliability, The Europa World Year Book 2012 is your source for detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, statistical and directory information for over 250 countries and territories.

For more than eighty years since its first publication, the Europa World Year Book has been the premier source of contemporary political and socio-economic analysis for library reference shelves, offering timely information with a global reach.

Brand new content for 2012 includes:

• a new...

The International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2012 is a valuable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world. All entrants have the opportunity to update their entries, confirming existing titles and contributions and listing new ones, providing career details and professional experience, and updating their contact information. This title is international in its scope and covers all literary genres. Now in its twenty-seventh edition, this descriptive directory is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and...

This volume provides a practical source of information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world. Biographical details are listed for writers of all kinds, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, editors, columnists, and journalists, as well as literary agents and publishers.

On January 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the bill creating the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. In the mid-1970s, National Park Service historian Harlan D. Unrau produced a major, handwritten, multi-volume study of the history, engineering, operation, maintenance, and other aspects of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. A rough, unedited typed version was produced in the early 1980s for general use by park staff. In 2006, C&O Canal NHP volunteers began the task of transcribing the Unrau work into MS Word.The work represents an early compilation of the canal's...

Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Its tables of annual data cover a wide variety of facts in forms suited to most common use. Statistics presented in many of the tables represent actual counts of the items covered. Most of the statistics relating to foreign trade and to Government programs, such as numbers and amounts of loans made to farmers, and amounts of loans made by the Commodity Credit Corporation, etc., are data of this type. A large...

Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, was erected on March 26, 1804 from land in Lycoming County. At one time, Jefferson County encompassed some 1,203 square miles and included the present-day counties of Forest and Elk. This rugged wilderness, that was home to the Six Nations Iroquois, was explored and settled by an adventurous group of missionaries, Scotch-Irish and German pioneers, lured west by the possibility inherent in so much virgin territory. W. J. McKnight tells the story of these pioneers and of the legacy which grew from their rough-hewn frontier communities. Subjects of interest...

Race and Employment in America: 2013, First Edition This Bernan Press first edition contains a convenient selection of information from the Census Bureau's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) tabulation. Based on the American Community Survey, the EEO tabulation highlights the diversity of the labor force and serves as the primary external benchmark for comparing the race, ethnicity, and sex composition of an organization's internal workforce, and the analogous external labor market, within a specified geography and job category. Essential for any economic development official, EEO specialist,...