Countries Of The World In Minutes

For each of the 195 officially recognized countries of the world, a mini essay clearly and concisely explains its key history, characteristics, and social and political structures. Alongside, an outline map shows each country's global location, main geographic features, and capital city, while a table of essential data details its population, political system, languages, major religions, currency, gross domestic product, main industries, and much more.

"This compact book is the quickest way to understand the world and every country in it. For each of the 195 officially recognized countries of the world, a mini-essay clearly and concisely explains its key history, politics, and geography. Alongside, maps show each countries global location, major mountains and borders, and main cities while a table of essential data details its population, capital, climate, political system, languages, major religions, currency, gross domestic product, main industries, and much more." -- Cover flap.

Gazetteer of countries around the world, giving basic facts on population, languages, religions, geography, holidays, etc.

A world list of books in the English language.

This book is not focused on any specific topic, but deals with a range of issues that have caught my attention for a considerable length of time. I have always wanted to reflect my opinions on a whole range of issues related to society, policy, environment, people's attitude, habits, anecdotes, social beliefs, and actions which have direct or indirect effects on others' lifestyle. The book is full of interesting experineces from India, Ethiopia, Middle East, New Zealand, and other countries. There are many funny, useful and amazing anecdotes related to a range of topics that readers will find hard to ignore once they start reading. You are most welcome to try to prove this wrong.

Now reorganized and updated throughout, the fifth edition of this well-regarded introductory global issues text continues to reflect the most important aspects of an increasingly globalized world. Reorganized into more accessible chapters better suited to semester-long courses, with new sections covering development, climate change, pollution, and governance The only survey-level text in the field to unite the perspectives of geography, political science, sociology, ecology, international relations, economics, and development studies Moves beyond the international to be truly global in focus, with coverage of topics such as wealth and poverty, population, food, energy, natural resources, and technology Incorporates new case studies and examples, including the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the effects of changing water supply on migration, natural gas fracking, and smart grid technology Offers a dynamic and accessible narrative with many student-friendly features, such as chapter boxes, a glossary of terms, guides to further reading, media and Internet resources Discover up-to-date related news articles for inspiring discussion and research at https://www.facebook.com/GlobalIssuesHiteSeitz.