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< p>Find names, departmental affiliations and institutional addresses of professionals in academia within this directory's alphabetic listing of names and addresses of teaching faculty members at American colleges and universities -- and at Canadian institutions that use instructional materials primarily in English.

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Find key information on more than 3,000 ministers and heads of state in 199 countries, including date and place of birth; education; family status; political party affiliation; private and political career; and contact information.

Newsmakers - published quarterly in softcover - provides timely and informative profiles of the worlds most interesting people. A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation and subject. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers.