An invaluable directory and reference resource covering over 30,000 academic institutions and 200,000 staff and officials. This highly esteemed work includes universities and colleges as well as details on international cultural, scientific and educational organizations.
· Extensive coverage of over 3,000 universities and colleges
· Completely revised and updated every year
Covers universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums and art galleries world-wide arranged alphabetically by country.
· Every important library is included giving details of the number of volumes held and outstanding features of the collection as well as contact details
· Professors at major universities are listed by name together with the subjects they teach
· Details more than 400 international organizations concerned with education throughout the world
· All entries include, where available: names, principal personnel, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, aims and publications
· Includes a 100-page index of institutions

This invaluable directory and source of background information of the world of further and higher education covers universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums and art galleries world-wide arranged alphabetically by country.
Listing well over 30,000 academic institutions, it also details more than 200,000 staff and officials with extensive coverage of over 3,000 universities and colleges. This edition also includes over 1,500 new website addresses.
Every important library is included, giving details of the number of volumes held and outstanding features of the collection as well as contact details.
Professors at major universities are listed by name together with the subjects they teach.
More than 400 international organizations concerned with education throughout the world are also listed with full contact details.
All entries include, where available, names, principal personnel, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and aims and publications. The volume includes a 100-page index of institutions.
The print version is now also available online. It includes all the information within the print edition but with the added facility of powerful search facilities. Free one-month trials are available at .

The Directory of 12,500 Trade and Professional Associations in the EU lists the postal and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, chairman, secretary general, contact person and publications of some 800 EU associations. Also included are details of some 11,700 national member organizations. Four indexes provide easy reference to this essential volume.

A reference and sourcebook to the organizations involved in environmental and resource conservation in all parts of the world and to their activities. It describes over 2000 organizations and programmes in over 200 countries, providing access to sources of information, expertise and action. A user's guide identifies who is doing what in over 50 areas, such as air quality, environmental economics, toxic materials and wildlife. There are also regional overviews, detailed analyses of the UN system, over 250 intergovernmental agencies, over 400 international NGOs, and over 1500 national organizations with full country and area listings, plus indices, a glossary and a list of landmark events.

Completely revised with new profiles of more than 150 elementary schools and pre-kindergarten programs! For nearly 2 decades, parents have looked to Clara Hemphill to help them find a good public school for their child. This Fourth Edition features all-new reviews of more than 150 of the city's best public elementary schools, based on visits and in-depth interviews by the InsideSchools staff. This essential guide uncovers the "inside scoop" on schools (the condition of the building, special programs, teacher quality, and more), includes a checklist of things to look for on a school tour, and incorporates new listings of charter schools and stand-alone pre-kindergarten programs.

This reference work offers extensive and up-to-date information concerning art in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The user can find in the 24th edition some 33,000 museums and public galleries, art associations, art and antiques dealers, numismatics, galleries, auctioneers, restorers, art publishers, art magazines, antiquarian bookshops and art bookshops, as well as artists.

This directory is part of an ongoing project through which The Japan Foundation gathers information about Japan specialists and Japanese studies institutions in various countries. The U.S. part of the series is handled separately and has been managed and edited since the late 1980s by Patricia Steinhoff, professor of sociology at the University of Hawai'i. The Japan Foundation is the Japanese government's agency for cultural diplomacy and international cultural affairs. Established in 1972 by special legislation in the Japanese Diet, The Japan Foundation became an Independent Administrative Institution in October 2003. Its mission is to promote international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries. It maintains its headquarters in Tokyo and operates through a network of 19 overseas offices in 18 countries worldwide.

This directory has become a valued source of information for energy-efficient building designers and specifiers throughout Europe and the details and scope of product, service and supplier listings have again been extensively updated for this edition.

In print for more than seven decades as Broadcasting Yearbook and more recently, Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook, this directory has been the go-to source for station data and industry contacts in the US and Canadian television, radio and cable marketplace.

This is the official guide to the administrative structure of the European institutions and a reliable source of information concerning the names and addresses of high-ranking civil servants.

This multi-volume series provides detailed histories of more than 4,550 of the largest and most influential companies worldwide.

< p>When students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors need accurate and detailed information on the development of any of the world's 4,550 largest and most influential companies, direct them to< I> International Directory of Company Histories< /I>. This multi-volume work is the first major reference to bring together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location.< p>Each three- to five-page entry is meticulously detailed with facts gathered from popular magazines, academic periodicals, books, annual reports and the archives of the companies themselves. Entries provide information on founders, expansions and losses, labor/management actions, NAIC codes, key dates, ticker symbol, principal subsidiaries, principal divisions, principal operating units, principle competators and other significant milestones -- all peppered with statistics, dates and names of key players. < p>Vols. 1-6 are organized alphabetically by major industries; Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes are arranged alphabetically by company name within each volume. Each volume includes a cumulative index to companies and personal names. Vol. 7 and subsequent volumes include a cumulative index to industries.< p>The histories were compiled from publicly accessible sources, as well as from material supplied by the companies themselves. Entries on companies that have had major changes since they were last profiled may be selected for updating. < p> Startin with Volume 37 a geographical index to companies sorted by country of head office. The index includes Country name, alphabetical list of companies from that country, and volume numberwhere the company profile can be found.

When students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors need accurate and detailed information on the development of any of the world's largest and most influential companies, direct them to International Directory of Company Histories. This multi-volume work is the first major reference to bring together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location.