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Coutries and Cultures

Library Books & Recommended Websites

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Category for "Countries and Cultures"

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Search the following reference resources by clicking HERE:

* Countries and Their Cultures , 4v, 2001
* Encyclopedia of Food and Culture , 3v, 2003
* Encyclopedia of Population , 2v, 2003
* Encyclopedia of World Cultures , 10v, 1996
* Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages , 5v, 2004
* International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family , 2nd ed., 4v, 2003
* St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture , 5v, 2000
* Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices , 3v, 2006

CultureGrams

Daily Life On-Line & World Cultures Today
http://dailylife.greenwood.com/login.asp

Free Web Resources

Atlapedia Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/

CIA's World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Economist Country Briefings
http://www.economist.com/countries/

Ethnologue: Languages of the world
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

InFonation (United Nations comparison)
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp

Internet Public Libary's Culturequest
http://www.ipl.org/youth/cquest/

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Library of Congress: Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Nationmaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/

United Nations List of Least Developed Countries
http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ldc/list.htm

U.S. Department of State's Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

The World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

World's Statesmen
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/