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CIA World Fact Book Description: Historical, political and economic information on countries of the world.How Stuff Works Description: by Marshall Brain. Every wonder how the new Segway scooter works? How a washing machine or computer network works? How particular holidays celebrations came about? This graphics-rich site will tell you. Library of Congress Country Studies Description: This series covers 100 countries and concentrates more on the social aspectes of each country than does the CIA series above. You can also do key-word searching across all of the volumes, finding information on music, for example, in many countries. Some of the volumes are out of date but new volumes are being added and the new additions now contain maps and illustrations. Price's List of Lists Description: Top 50 restaurants by sales? Best places to live? Top companies in an industry? Top film rentals? You can find hundreds of lists on this list, compiled by Gary Price, of the Gelman Library at George Washington University.
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