Sybworld

Turner Barry (Autor)

Online Resource

2002
Palgrave Macmillan (Hersteller)
978-0-333-96249-7 (ISBN)

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The Statesman's Yearbook Online is a dynamic online service offering up-to-date, authoritative, and reliable information on global affairs, with comprehensive coverage of government and politics, geography, history, economics, social policy and culture for all 192 countries.

The Statesman's Yearbook Online is an online subscription product offering up-to-date, authoritative, and reliable information on global affairs, with comprehensive coverage of government and politics, geography, history, economics, social policy and culture for all 192 countries. A one-stop resource for students, teachers, scholars, journalists, policy makers and government officials - indeed for everyone seeking to understand our times. From a basic fact to an in-depth report, SYBWorld puts current events in context with an innovative blend of text, data, and original graphics. Integrating facts, figures, statistics, and maps with narrative profiles and background analyzes, SYBWorld helps users find what they need quickly and easily. The 192 country profiles cover every important area: Political parties and leaders; Population; Economics; Climate; Natural resources; Military capabilities; Education and legal systems; Culture and communications' Health and environment, and International affairs. Plus expanded coverage of world events, biographies of key figures, and special profiles of regions, states, and cities.
All updated monthly, with a daily 'What's New' feature to contextualize current world events, and all accessible through an interactive, map-based interface. Powerful search and browse tools provide instant, full-text access. Dynamic charts and tables help users understand global issues by comparing data country-to-country. There are also searchable lists of international organizations and chronology of events, plus further reading and other resources for additional research - including more than 3000 carefully selected and maintained links to external information sources.

The editor of SYBWorld, Barry Turner, is also the editor of The Statesman's Yearbook, only the seventh in its 139-year history. He has a PhD in Political History and has been a full-time writer for 25 years. He has worked as a journalist and broadcaster in the field of politics, biography, travel and education, and is the author of over 20 books including the best-selling A Place in the Country, which became a television series, ...And the Policeman Smiled, the story of ten thousand refugee children who escaped to Britain just before the war, and (co-authored) When Daddy Came Home - How Family Life Changed Forever in 1945. He is a regular contributor to The Times as a book reviewer and serialiser, and also edits the annual Writer's Handbook.

More than 3 Million Words of Text at Launch, Covering all 192 Countries of the World, and their Associated Territories and Dependencies, including Biographies of Past and Present Leaders, City Profiles, Historical, Economic, Political, Social, Environmental and other Information; Detailed Information on International Organizations; A Weekly Chronology of World Events from end of 1999; Dynamic Comparison Charts and Tables for Key Statistics; Interactive Maps; Sophisticated Search and Browse Tools; Conversion Tool for Metric/non-metric Calculations; More than 3,000 Links to External Sites.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2002
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	100 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-333-96249-4 / 0333962494
ISBN-13	978-0-333-96249-7 / 9780333962497
Zustand	Neuware