Provides facts and background information on a great variety of topics, including income tax, world travel, the American economy, the media, health and nutrition, and more.

Fast access to the facts--the 1997 Information Please Sports Almanac showcases all the winners and losers, year by year, sport by sport, like no other almanac. With more than 950 fact-filled pages, the IPSA has been revised and updated to reflect every change in the universe of sports during the past year, including the newly created Pro Soccer and Indy Racing leagues, a greatly expanded Olympics section, and complete coverage of the World Series.

The only single-volume reference to organize and distill essential how-to information, statistics, online contract options, addresses, and phone numbers for today's business, this ingenious annual includes new articles on Environmental Law, Labor Law, Federal Disaster Relief, Immigration, Internet Connections, Lobbying Disclosure Act, Online Access to the Stock Market, and much more.

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Covers movies, television, videos, radio, music, CD-ROMs, theater, dance, opera, Broadway shows, books, and publishing.

Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.

Featuring over 1900 references, drawings, and tables and drawing on disciplines as diverse as political economics, public management, and urban affairs, this versatile text offers comprehensive information on major policy and managerial issues important to local and national economic development. Pulling together the work of over 40 researchers, the book examines the role of government in economic advances and reform, provides a complete, up-to-date survey of the literature on local and national economic development, details local and regional economic progress in the US, adopts an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the study of economic expansion, and more.