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Reference Sources
Global Studies & Maritime Affairs
A listing of reference sources
that can be found in the Cal Maritime Library
A comprehenive,
impartial documentation of the major events and
prominent figures involved in Arab-Israeli
relations in the last half-century. Includes a
chronology of events, political profiles, and an
extensive bibliography.
A collection of
747 conventions, agreements, declarations and
treaties of the greatest significance to the
United States. These include both current and
historical documents beginning with the Mayflower
Compact of 1620. Many treaties are extensively
quoted from or presented in their entirety. The
appendices include numerous web sites with
collections of treaties, URLs for links to
depository libraries, and a bibliography. A
detailed index is provided.
A thorough
accounting of America's wars from the time of
Columbus to the present day. The details of over
100 wars include chronologies of major battles;
portraits and photographs; an assortment of
letters, journal entries, and orders from
frontline soldiers to various presidents; a
bibliography; and index.
A three-volume
work detailing U.S. foreign affairs in
chronological order from colonial times until the
start of 2001. Volume 3 contains an extensive
index, topical bibliographies, and biographical
sketches of the secretaries of state from
1781-2001.
This two-volume
work explains the main principles, concepts,
schools of thought, and policies associated with
political economy. The A-Z list of entries is
enhanced with a separate list of twenty categories
that you can use to studies entries which are
related to each other. These fall into the broad
categories of institutional spheres, subjects
areas, and schools of political economy. A
detailed index is at the end of the volume 2.
An A - Z
listing of the events, organizations, and people
involved in international terrorism. Includes a
section on the major acts of terrorism from 1946 -
2000, the day-by-day U.S. and world reaction to
September 11,2001, a map and charts of terrorist
incidents, a selected bibliography, and an index.
A comprehensive
work that covers over 250 countries and
territories as well as over 1650 International
Organizations. The entries for each country cover
location, climate, language, religion, flag,
capital, recent history, government, defence,
economic affairs, education, public holidays, and
weights and measures. The latest figures are used
for the statistical surveys including area and
population, health and welfare, agriculture,
forestry, industry, finance, trade, transport,
tourism, the media, and education. The directory
of organizations includes names, addresses,
contact information, web sites, and where
applicable, member states, organization and
finance information, activities, and publications.
As the title
suggests, this is a thorough examination of the
issues relating to terrorism. Divided into three
sections, it begins with an overview of terrorism,
historical surveys of terrorism by region, laws
and court cases relating to terrorism, a
chronology of significant terrorist attacks from
1946 on, brief biographies of major terrorists, a
glossary, a section devoted to conducting research
on terrorism, a comprehensive annotated
bibliography, contact information and web sites
for organizations and agencies involved in
terrorism-related issues, numerous appendices, and
an index.
Covering the
last two centuries, this book provides information
about various aspects of international relations
and diplomacy including the international system,
its organization and participants; crises and
meetings; policies and doctrines; force and
diplomacy; common international space; and
diplomatic relations. Includes a name index.
A collection of
eleven essays covering a broad range of topics.
Words in the essays that are bold typed are
explained in greater detail in the A-Z entries in
the second half of the book. These cover the main
areas of micro and macroeconomics. There is a
suggested list of further reading following each
of the essays. This book includes several tables,
charts, graphs, equations; and an index.
This book is an
excellent starting point for researching a number
of pertinent global issues. Each of the thirty
topics includes an introduction; historical
background and development; current research,
policies and programs; regional summaries; case
studies; biographical sketches; directory of
government agencies, non-governmental (NGOs) and
international organizations (IOs); books,
articles, reports and web sites for further
research; and excerpts from related documents.
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