This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998. Each study offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy.

Will Franken rants about humanity (hear, hear!)

"The U.S. is the only industrialized nation not to have ratified the Basel Convention, which would prevent it from trading in hazardous waste."

One of the cooler gmaps

That is, invents low-power water purifier

$100 laptop project reaches a milestone