Political Handbook of the World annually provides up-to-date political information on all the world's countries in a balanced, accurate and comprehensive manner. A singular and authoritative reference work for nearly 70 years, each new volume builds on the research and scholarship of previous editions, offering rare insight into stories making headlines, judiciously outlining contemporary conflicts and analysing current foreign policy within the informed context of past events and decisions. It is considered to be the single-volume reference work of choice for libraries, diplomats, academic faculties, international corporations, and others needing accurate, timely information.

The best-selling handbook to world radio has been completely updated and provides, as always, the most comprehensive and up-to-date information for anyone seeking information about radio or television broadcasts anywhere in the world. Among the features of this guide are over 300 pages of radio listings; details of over 1000 English broadcasts; broadcaster web sites and e-mail addresses; worldwide television-station contacts and addresses; articles with detailed technical information, tuning tips, and recommended programs; and reviews of the latest and most exciting radio equipment.

Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, award-winning principal of the architecture firm Backen Gillam Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes comfort over pretension and elegant simplicity over complication that tends to serve the ego of architects. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of that this aesthetic, featuring farmhouses in the Napa Valley, hilltop homes, seaside retreats, and lakeside hideaways. Throughout the work, a sense of intimacy, warmth, and informality pervades. Natural materials, such as wood, stone, and brick form the foundations, walls, and ceilings of these subtly luxurious spaces, while nature itself plays a considered role that is at once complementary and also intricately conjoined with the work. Long vistas open outward toward sun-drenched valleys from the window-lined wall of a bedroom in one home, while more immediate scenes of steeply rising hillsides and hidden lakes appear from just beyond the back stoop--and the rough-hewn-board dock--of another. Sensitive, alluring, and wonderfully resonant with the suggestion of invitation, the work of Backen Gillam Kroeger is both thrilling to the eye and restorative to the soul.

A comprehensive listing of the world's long-, medium- and shortwave radio and television stations by frequency, time and language. Features include: maps of the principal transmitter sites; reviews of new shortwave receivers; and an hour-by-hour guide to b

This is the most comprehensive source available on medium wave, shortwave, FM broadcast, and television broadcast information. All the world's national radio services are conveniently bookmarked, and dozens of color pages provide articles, radio reviews, propagation predictions, and maps.