Comprehensive World Reference Guide

by Mollie Brittenum, Ruth Ostrowski, Caroline Venza, et al.

Book Overview

Just look in the cross-reference index of this handy guide to ALL of the countries of the world! Each entry includes short summaries of the geographic location, topography, climate, economy, points of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568222424
• ISBN13: 9781568222424
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Instructional Fair
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

ExcellentTeaching Tool

The Comprehensive Reference Guide is an excellent source for students to aquire information on 233 countries from around the world. As a middle school social studies teacher it is one of the first books I encourage my students to research when we begin studying a new region. We have five in the class. Countries are listed in alphabetical order in a well organized table of contents. Each page is laid out in an easy to read format and contains general information on a specific country that includes a minature map, flag (it's black and white and I wish it was color), population, languages, type of goverment, geography, climate, economy, life-style, and a section on interesting facts. In the back are maps of the seven continents and fourteen blank maps that can be duplicated for tests. There is also a currency appendix that gives the country, the name of its' basic monetary unit and its equivalent. It also has an easy to read eighteen page index. This is a good book to have if you are teaching or just interested in finding out basic facts on different countries.