This annual collector`s item is packed with bold, vivid photographs coupled with lively commentary. Tragedies and triumphs.... heartaches and heart-throbs.... celebrities and sweethearts.... newsmakers and newcomers. Featuring the Best Worst Dressed, Most Beautiful, and Most Intriguing lists of the past year. Go behind the scenes with your favorite celebrities and relive the year`s most extraordinary stories through more than 200 sensational photos!

Looks at celebrities who have made news during 1998, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, and Jennifer Lopez.

Providing the latest available mineral data on the countries of Africa and the Middle East, this yearbook discusses the importance of minerals to these nations economies. It also includes production tables and industry structure tables.

The 2009 edition of the Korea yearbook contains concise overview articles covering domestic developments and the economy in both South and North Korea as well as inter-Korean relations and foreign relations of the two Koreas in 2008. A detailed chronology complements these articles. South Korea-related refereed articles in the 2009 edition deal with the internal politics of the Democratic Labour Party, the origins of the nuclear industry, industrial relations in the metals sector, Cheju island as a medical tourism hub, President Lee Myung-bak as seen through political cartoons, the comfort women movement's regionalisation process and perceptions of North Korean women. Additional refereed articles analyse the reliability of North Korean survey data, the migration experience of North Korean refugees, and sports-related cooperation between the two Koreas.

Looks at celebrities who have made news during 2001.