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The World Factbook 2011

Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency

Description: In general, information available as of January 1, 2011 was used in the preparation of this edition. Provides brief information on the geography, people, government, economy, communications, and defense of countries and regions around the world. Contains information on international organizations. Designed to meet the specific requirements of United States Government Officials in style, format, coverage, and content. Includes 3 unattached maps. The separate aps are a June 2011 physical map of the world, a June 2011 political map of the world, and a map of standard time zones.

Year/Pages: 2011: 810 p.; ill, and 3 separate folded maps.

Price: $83.00

State Magazine

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Human Resources

Description: 12 issues per year. Subscription price covers issues for 1 year. Subscription service begins with the first issue after the is processed. Copies of the latest 6 issues are retained in stock for individual purchase. Single copy, $7.00; foreign single copy, $9.80. Cover title reads: State, The Newsletter, United States State Department. Published to acquaint the Department's officers and employees, at home and abroad, with developments of interest which may affect operations of personnel. Title formerly: Department of State Newsletter. DSNL. File Code 2M. Item 864-B.

Price: $48.00 Add To Cart

Treaties in Force: A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force on January 1, 2011

Publisher: State Dept.. Office of the Legal Advisor, Treaty Affairs Staff

Description: Lists treaties and other international agreements of the United States on record in the Department of State on January 1, 2011 which had not expired by their terms or which had not been denounced by the parties, replaced or superseded by other agreements, or otherwise definitely terminated. Published annually.

Year/Pages: 2011: 494 p.

Price: $57.00 Add To Cart

A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service

Publisher: Peace Corps

Description: Prepared in honor of the 45th anniversary of the Peace Corps. Contains a collection of autobiographical reminiscences by about 30 former Peace Corps volunteers.

Year/Pages: 2006: 181 p.; ill.

Price: $17.00 Add To Cart

A Muslim Archipelago: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia

Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense Intelligence College, Center for Strategic Intelligence Research

Description:            

Year/Pages: 2007: 296 p;; ill.

Price: $26.00 Add To Cart

The Borderlands of Southeast Asia: Geopolitics, Terrorism and Globalization

Publisher: Defense Dept., National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies

Description: Edited by James Clad, Sean M. McDonald, and Bruce Vaughn. The contributors to this book emphasize a mix of heritage and history as the primary leitmotif for contemporary border rivalries and dynamics of Southeast Asia. Organized by country to elicit a broad range of thought and approach as much as for the specific areas or ation-states examined in each chapter. Aims to provide new ways of looking at the reality and illusion of bordered Southeast Asia.

Year/Pages: 2011: 279 p.; ill., maps.

Price: $25.00 Add To Cart

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices For 2008

Publisher: Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, and House, Committee on Foreign Affairs

Description: S. Prt. 111-69. Joint Committee Print.

Year/Pages: 2010: 2 bks. (2927 p.)

Price: $92.00 Add To Cart

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007, Report

Publisher: House, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations

Description: Joint Committee Print. Prepared by the Department of State in accordance with Sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. August 2008. Covers the human rights practices of all nations that are members of the United Nations, and a few that are not. 110th Congress, 2nd Session. Jacket 41-228PDF or 41-228 PDF.

Year/Pages: 2008: 2 bks. (2840 p.)

Price: $80.00 Add To Cart

Iran: A Country Study (Hardcover)

Publisher: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

Description: Area Handbook Series. 5th edition. Edited by Glenn E. Curtis and Eric Hooglund. Offers a concise and objective examination of the dominant historical, geographic, social, economic, political, and military aspects of contemporary Iran. Has 5 chapters on: Historical Setting; The Society and its Environment (covers geography, population, social systems, education, health, and welfare); The Economy (focuses on overview and sectorial analyses); Government and Politics (covers political institutions, political dynamics, and foreign policy); and National Security (covers military institutions and regional and national security problems/issues).

Year/Pages: 2008: 402 p.; ill.

Price: $32.00 Add To Cart

North Korea: A Country Study

Publisher: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

Description: Area Handbook Series. 5th edition. Edited by Robert L. Worden. Research completed October 2007. Attempts to review the history and treat in a concise manner the dominant social, political, economic, and military aspects of contemporary North Korea as of August 1, 2007.

Year/Pages: 2008: 360 P.

Price: $38.00 Add To Cart

Discord or "Harmonious Society": China in 2030

Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air University, Air War College, Center for Strategy and Technology

Description: Center for Strategy and Technology Occasional Paper 68. By John P. Geis, et al.

Year/Pages: 2011: 144 p.; ill.

Price: $23.00 Add To Cart

Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report, 2011

Publisher: Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Description: October 10, 2011. 112th Congress, 1st Session.    

Year/Pages: 2011: 348 p.

Price: $16.50 Add To Cart

Soviet-American Relations: The Detente Years, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11438. With a foreword by Henry A. Kissinger. A one-volume joint documentary publication presenting the formerly secret record of how the United States and Soviet Union moved from Cold War to detente during 1969-1972. Published side-by side are U.S. and Soviet accounts of meetings between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin, the so-called Kissinger-Dobrynin confidential channel, related documents, and the full Soviet and U.S. record of the first Moscow Summit between President Richard Nixon and Soviet Secretary General LenoidBrezhnev. The Soviet documents are being released in the volume for the first time anywhere.

Year/Pages: 2007: 1081 p.; ill.

Price: $62.00 Add To Cart

Minerals Yearbook, 2009, V. 1, Metals and Minerals

Publisher: Interior Dept., Geological Survey

Description:            

Year/Pages: 2011: 1101 p.

Price: $98.00 Add To Cart

Minerals Yearbook, 2009, V. 3, Area Reports, International, Asia and the Pacific

Publisher: Interior Dept., Geological Survey

Description:                                                                                                                                               

Year/Pages: 2011: 120 p.

Price: $39.00 Add To Cart

Minerals Yearbook, 2009, V. 3, Area Reports, International, Africa and the Middle East

Publisher: Interior Dept., Geological Survey

Description:            

Year/Pages: 2011: 376 p.

Price: $58.00 Add To Cart

Minerals Yearbook, 2009, V. 3, Area Reports, International, Latin America and Canada

Publisher: Interior Dept., Geological Survey

Description:            

Year/Pages: 2011: 204 p.

Price: $35.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States series (FRUS)

Celebrating 150 years of official diplomatic history: 1861-2011

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954: Guatemala

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Department of State Publication 11026. Editor, Susan K. Holly. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Supplements the information earlier published in Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, V. 4, American Republics. Includes documents that are declassified. Focuses on the covert operation to overthrow Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in 1954.

Year/Pages: 2003: 488 p.

Price: $17.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955-1957, V. 27, Western Europe and Canada

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 9931. Editor in chief: John P. Glennon. Editors: Madeline Chi, et al. Provides official documents relating to United States foreign relations with: France; Italy; Portugal; Scandinavia; Spain; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Vatican; and Canada. Includes footnotes, an index, and lists of abbreviations, sources, and persons. Item 872-B.

Year/Pages: 1992: 966 p.

Price: $14.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960, V. 2, United Nations and General International Matters

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 9833. Editor in chief, John P. Glennon. Editors, Suzanne E. Coffman, Charles S. Sampson. Includes official documents relating to United States foreign policy concerning: the United Nations; Antarctica; Law of the Sea; and outer space. Also includes footnotes, an index, and lists of unpublished sources, abbreviations, and persons.

Year/Pages: 1991: 994 p.

Price: $65.00

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, V. 5, Soviet Union

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10544. Edited by Charles S. Sampson, et al. Presents a full accounting of the overall nature and structure of United States-Soviet relations together with a more detailed documentary record of those high-level meetings, discussions, and policy debates on the broad range of issues making up the diplomacy of the cold war.

Year/Pages: 1998: 905 p.

Price: $14.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, V. 13, West Europe and Canada

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10087. Editors, Charles S. Sampson, et al. One of a series of volumes on the foreign policy of the Kennedy administration. Documents United States policy regarding European economic and political integration, United States participation in NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and United States bilateral relations with Canada, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Includes footnotes, an index, and lists of persons, abbreviations, and sources. Item 872-B.

Year/Pages: 1993: 1100 p.

Price: $16.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, V. 25: Organization of Foreign Policy; Information Policy; United Nations; Scientific Matters

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10864. Edited by Paul Claussen, et al. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Final volume in a subseries of volumes which document the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of President John F. Kennedy. Includes memoranda and records of discussions that set forth policy issues and options and show decisions or actions taken. Item 872-B.

Year/Pages: 2001: 1195 p.

Price: $28.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 5: Vietnam, 1967

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10958. Edited by Kent Seig. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Documents United States policy toward Vietnam in 1967. Presents documentation illuminating responsibility for major foreign policy decisions in the United States Government with emphasis on President Johnson and his advisors. Includes memoranda and records of discussions that set forth policy issues and options and show decisions or actions taken.

Year/Pages: 2002: 1213 p.

Price: $74.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 6: Vietnam, January-August 1968

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description:            

Year/Pages: 2002: 1062 p.

Price: $29.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 7: Vietnam, September 1968-January 1969

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10959. Edited by Kent Seig. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Documents United States policy toward Vietnam in 1967. Presents documentation illuminating responsibility for major foreign policy decisions in the United States Government with emphasis on President Johnson and his advisors. Includes memoranda and records of discussions that set forth policy issues and options and show decisions or actions taken.

Year/Pages: 2003: 882 p.

Price: $27.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 10, National Security Policy

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 10921. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Documents United States national security policy during the Johnson administration.

Year/Pages: 2002: 828 p.

Price: $27.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 16, Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication

Description: State Department Publication 10644 Editor: James E. Miller. General editor: Davis S. Patterson. Provides historical documents concerning the foreign policy of the Johnson Administration. This volume focuses on Cyprus, Greece and Turkey.

Year/Pages: 2000: 836 p.

Price: $22.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, V. 29, Pt. 2: Japan

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11321. Editor: Karen L. Gatz. General Editor: Edward C. Keefer. Presents the documentary record of the United States' policy toward the Japan 1964-1968.

Year/Pages: 2006: 366 p.

Price: $31.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXII, Dominican Republic; Cuba; Haiti; Guyana

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: edited by Daniel Lawler, et al.    

Year/Pages: 2005: 1027 p.

Price: $67.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. 1: Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11017. Editors: Louis J. Smith and David H. Herschler. General Editor: David S. Patterson. Documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the Nixon Administration. Examines the intellectual assumptions underlying the foreign policy decisions made by the administration.

Year/Pages: 2003: 437 p.

Price: $16.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. 2, Organization and Management of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11374. Edited by David C. Humphrey. General editor: Edward C. Keefer. Examines the efforts undertaken by the administration of President Richard Nixon to thoroughly reorganize the foreign policy decision-making process during Nixon's first term. Particular attention is paid to the structure, operation, and problems of the new National Security Council (NSC) system created by the Nixon administration during its first year, as well as to attempts to revamp the operations and management of the U.S. intelligence community.

Year/Pages: 2006: 908 p.

Price: $70.50

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. 3: Foreign Economic Policy, 1969-1972; International Monetary Policy, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11374. Edited by David C. Humphrey. General editor: Edward C. Keefer. Examines the efforts undertaken by the administration of President Richard Nixon to thoroughly reorganize the foreign policy decision-making process during Nixon's first term. Particular attention is paid to the structure, operation, and problems of the new National Security Council (NSC) system created by the Nixon administration during its first year, as well as to attempts to revamp the operations and management of the U.S. intelligence community.

Year/Pages: 2001: 702 p.

Price: $59.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. 5, United Nations, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11166. Editor, Evan M. Duncan, General Editor, Edward C. Keefer. Part of a subseries of volumes which document the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Presents a documentary record of major foreign policy decisions toward the United Nations during the period 1969 through 1972.

Year/Pages: 2004: 978 p.

Price: $17.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. VII: Vietnam, July 1970-January 1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Edward C. Keefer, General Editor. Edited by David Goldman and Erin Mahan. This volume documents U.S. policy towards the war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from July 1970 to January 1972.

Year/Pages: 2010: 1128 p.

Price: $67.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume VIII, Vietnam, January-October 1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Editor: John M. Carland. General Editor: Edward C. Keefer. The Easter Offensive, and its ramifications, represents the most significant event in Indochina for U.S. policy in this period, and documentary coverage of the event dominates the volume, concentrating mainly on what happened in North and South Vietnam, policy formulation and decision making in Washington, and the negotiations in Paris. Only a very small number of documents relate to events and policy in Laos and Cambodia, and then only as they relate to events and policy in Vietnam.

Year/Pages: 2010: 1140 p.

Price: $71.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. X, Vietnam, January 1973-July 1975

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Edited by Bradley Lynn Coleman. General editor, Edward C. Keefer. Part of a subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. This specific volume covers U.S. policy towards Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from the signing of the Paris Peace Accords (January 1973) to the fall of Saigon and Phnom Penh (April 1975). The final chapter covers the SS Mayaguez incident (May 1975).

Year/Pages: 2010: 1103 p.

Price: $95.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. 14: Soviet Union, October 1971-May 1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11355. Edited by David C. Geyer, et al. General Editor: Edward C. Keefer. Reflects a reexamination of how the Office of the Historian should present documentation on United with its major opponent in the Cold War, The Soviet Union.

Year/Pages: 2006: 1285 p.

Price: $84.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XIX, Pt. 1, Korea, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Editors, Daniel J. Lawler; Erin R. Mahon. General Editor, Edward C. Keefer. Part of a sub-series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. This volume documents U.S. policy toward Korea from 1969 until 1972 and is part 1 of a larger volume that will include a compilation on U.S. bilateral relations with Japan.

Year/Pages: 2010: 487 p.

Price: $46.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. 20: Southeast Asia, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: State Department Publication 11356. Editor: Daniel Lawler. General Editor: Edward C. Keefer. Part of a subseries that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the Nixon-Ford administrations. This volume documents the United States policy toward Southeast Asia.

Price: $68.50 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, V. 25, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Editors: Nina Howland, Craig Daigle. General Editor: Edward C . Keefer.

Year/Pages: 2011: 1278 p.

Price: $78.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XXVIII, Southern Africa

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description:            

Year/Pages: 2011: 787 p.

Price: $70.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XXXI, Foreign Economic Policy, 1973-1976

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Edited by Kathleen B. Rasmussen. General Editor: Edward C. Keefer. This volume is part of a subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. This volume documents U.S. foreign economic policy from 1973 to 1976, focusing on international monetary policy, economic summitry, trade policy, commodity policy, and North-South relations.

Year/Pages: 2009: 1131 p.

Price: $75.00 Add To Cart

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXXII, SALT I, 1969-1972

Publisher: State Dept., Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian

Description: Editor, Erin R. Mahan. General Editor, Edward C. Keefer. Provides official documents concerning Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 1.

Year/Pages: 2010: 1051 p.

Price: $71.00 Add To Cart

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