At
the click of a mouse you can select, analyse and present
statistical data creating professional reports and articles.
All the data, maps and text can be exported to your word
processor or desktop publishing programme.
Includes
information from:
- The
book The World Guide 2003/2004
(complete text and data)
- The
latest Amnesty International Reports on human rights
in more than 150 countries
- Social
Watch hundreds of reports listing the worlds
countries and how they are measuring up on key development
issues such as environment, debt and employment.
Features
include:
- Indicators
- a searchable database with a set of statistics for each
country; major economic and social indicators in diagrammatic
form.
- Themes
- a set of reports on people, society, science and technology,
international relationships and the ethics of the global
economy.
- Countries
- for each of 240 countries there is an historical overview,
profile, location map, country map, key statistical indicators,
photographs, flag and anthem.
This
completely revised and updated edition of The World Guide
2001/2002 CD-ROM is an ideal reference tool for all teachers,
students, researchers, report writers, journalists, and any
home interested in hard and up-to-date information on every
country in the world.
It
is a major reference guide WITH AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE. For
the information in the three major works on this CD-ROM emphasises
different priorities from more standard texts. They are particularly
concerned with:
HUMAN RIGHTS
ENVIRONMENT
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
MILITARISM
SEXUAL & RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
The
biggest single work on the CD-ROM is The World Guide 2003/2004
compiled by the Third World Institute.
ALL
COUNTRY PROFILES FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
THE
PREVIOUS EDITION OF THIS CD-ROM IS ONE OF THREE TITLES SHORTLISTED
IN THE ELECTRONIC CATEGORY AS AN OUTSTANDING WORK OF
REFERENCE BY THE BRITISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.