Discover the Middle East with this colorful, high-quality map. The Middle East Reference Map (scale 1:4,000,000) provides full coverage of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UAE, Uzbekistan and Yemen. Also includes coverage of parts of China, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, India, Libya, Russia and Sudan. Includes index of place names. Main city names are given in the map in English and in the local alphabet. Legend and index headings are in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian and Arabic.

Middle East

East View Press

Reference

The Map and Guide to the Caribbean is ideal for trip planning, or to take with you on your Caribbean cruise or island holiday. This popular tourist map of the Caribbean region in bright political colors with hill-shading also includes larger scale inset maps of the eight most popular holiday destination islands: Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Grand Cayman, New Providence, Martinique, St. Thomas and Sint Maarten. The map legend includes capitals, major towns, other towns, international airports and airfields, anchorages, mountain peaks, places of interest, historic sites, golf courses (insets only), motorway/highways, primary and other roads, and international boundaries. The reverse of the map has a Caribbean weather chart, distance chart, time zone map and separate information panels for 21 of the individual islands.

The Caribbean: Map & Guide to the Caribbean

Oxford Cartographers

The Rail Map of Europe (scale 1:4,125,000) shows train routes in Europe and North Africa, as well as bus routes where there are no trains and major ferry routes. Using unique, patented pictograms the map gives information on the timing and frequency of trains and trip length for all major destinations. The detailed legend is in English, French, German, Japanese and Swedish. Copyright 2005; reprinted in 2013.

Rail Map of Europe

Map Link

Travel

Two maps in one! This double-sided world map has a glossy cardboard cover and features both a political map and a physical map. Additional features include indexes to main cities and towns and physical features, flags of main countries, a time zone map, unique continental landscape maps, and climate graphs.

The Hutchinson Double Map of the World

The August 2008 events in South Ossetia did more than just interrupt Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's trip to the Beijing Olympics. They ushered in a new low in Russian-American relations, perhaps the worst in the post-Cold War era. Reverberations were major and felt both regionally and globally the conflict catalyzed (practically within hours) Poland's agreement to host a US-run ballistic missile defense system; European leaders led by French President Sarkozy entered into frantic diplomatic efforts to end the crisis; the Russian Parliament (and then Nicaragua) recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.
 Through this all, reactions have been quite polarized, if one compares those generally found in the West and those from Russia. In Moscow and indeed throughout Russia there has been almost universal, even emotional, support of the steps taken by the Russian government. The contrast could not be starker with Western attitudes toward the crisis. Why is this, and what is behind the Russian thinking on these matters? Why do they consider themselves so justified in acting as they did and continue to do? Is there any common ground at all in the positions of both sides?
 The staff at East View has worked rapidly to produce what may be the first book-length treatment on the subject in the aftermath of the war, and in doing so we have drawn directly from key publications that we have either long-published as English-language editions or otherwise monitored and distributed. This is what has allowed us to put this publication together so quickly. Our hope is that it can be useful in making Russian views on this long-developing crisis more accessible to interested outsiders. We think that's important. As strongly as someone outside of Russia may feel about any aspect of these matters, it nonetheless is essential, in our opinion, to try to see things from the perspective of all sides, including the Russian or 'East' view in this case.
 Countdown to War in Georgia: Russia's Foreign Policy and Media Coverage of the Conflict in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, covers the period from 1989, when tensions in South Ossetia began to boil over as Gorbachev relaxed the iron fist of Soviet control, to late August of 2008, when the situation degraded to open warfare and an entirely new situation presented itself.
 The articles in this book come from three different sources. Part One includes newspaper articles originally published in English in The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press. These have been carefully translated without commentary from the original Russian newspaper articles. In some cases, these articles have been condensed or excerpted for the sake of brevity or to avoid repetition with other articles on the same subject. Any material cut from these articles is indicated by the use of ellipses. Each article is followed by the volume, issue number, date and page(s) of the Current Digest issue in which it appeared.
 Part Two includes articles that were originally translated into English and published in the journals International Affairs and Military Thought. These articles provide commentary from Russian foreign policy elite and military experts on foreign policy, security issues and peacekeeping operations in Georgia and the Caucasus. The translations of these articles have been revised for the purposes of this book.
 The Appendix to the book includes photographs of key political figures involved in these events, as well as an index.

Countdown to War in Georgia, Russia's Foreign Policy and Media Coverage of the Conflict in South Ossetia and Abkhazia

History

Americas

Oil of Russia: Past, Present and Future presents a detailed history of the oil industry in Russia by one of its leading figures LUKOIL Oil Company president Vagit Alekperov. Divided into three chapters, the first chapter of the book, entitled The Russian Empire s Black Gold, includes historical sketches on the formation and development of Russia s oil industry from ancient times until the end of 1917. The second chapter, Oil in the Land of the Soviets, focuses on the various developmental stages of the Soviet oil industry during the period of 1918-1991. The third chapter, The New Russia s Oil, analyzes the current state of the Russian oil and gas industry, describing the transition from the authoritarian administrative system of economic management of the Soviet era to the free market system. This includes close attention to the privatization processes that took place in the industry during the initial stage of the market s transformation and the subsequent creation of Russia s vertically integrated oil and gas companies. Oil of Russia: Past, Present and Future also includes six full-color photo inserts, an overview of major Russian oil companies, profiles of key historical and contemporary figures, a selected bibliography, a full listing of Vagit Alekperov s previous works, and an index.

Oil of Russia: Past, Present & Future

Vagit Alekperov

Foreign Language Study & Reference

California Missions Map

Discover the Middle East with this colorful, high-quality map. The Middle East Reference Map provides full coverage of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UAE, Uzbekistan and Yemen. Also includes partial coverage of China, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, India, Libya, Russia and Sudan. Map includes index of place names. Main city names are printed on the map in English and in the local alphabet. Includes inset of the Mediterranean coast from Lebanon to Egypt in scale 1:2,000,000. Legend and index headings are in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian and Arabic.

Middle East : reference map (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Russian Edition)

Brothers Armed: Military Aspects of the Crisis in Ukraine is the latest book from the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), a Moscow-based think tank focused on military and security issues. Presenting a collection of essays by leading Russian and Ukrainian military, security and political analysts, Brothers Armed charts the history of military reform and progress in Ukraine and Russia from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the 2014 annexation of Crimea. Brothers Armed consists of four sections. Section one traces Crimea s political history from the fifteenth century until its 2014 annexation by Russia. A crucial aspect of that history is Nikita Khrushchev s seemingly arbitrary yet ultimately fateful decision to transfer Crimea from the jurisdiction of the RSFSR to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Bitter feelings and a deep-seated desire to right a historical wrong in part led to Russia s sudden decision to annex Crimea some twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union. Section two offers a close examination of the military reform efforts of both Russia and Ukraine following the collapse of the USSR. While Russia s Armed Forces experienced many growing pains in its effort to move from a Soviet-era conscription-based army to a versatile rapid-response army staffed mainly with contract soldiers (an effort still underway), Ukraine let the powerful military potential it inherited from the USSR simply founder and decay amid bureaucratic malaise and a failure to properly assess potential future military threats. Section three features a set of essays analyzing the political circumstances and events leading to the annexation of the Crimea, including the role of Russia s troops stationed in Sevastopol with the Black Sea Fleet, as well as the little green men. Section four looks at the challenges in the road ahead for Ukraine and its military, including the specter of a full-blown Russian military invasion. First edition; includes 20 photos, map and index.

Brothers Armed: Military Aspects of the Crisis in Ukraine

Colby Howard (editor)

Ruslan Pukhov (editor)

Chinese Cultural Relics is the official English translation of the prestigious award-winning Chinese archaeology journal Wenwu (Cultural Relics). Published since the 1950s, Wenwu is well known in China and abroad for its quality articles and in-depth reporting of Chinese archaeological surveys and fieldwork. Until the publication of Chinese Cultural Relics, the information presented in this key resource has only been accessible to those who can read Chinese. Each issue of Chinese Cultural Relics contains content from recent issues of Wenwu. In addition to high-quality translation, each article includes the same detailed photographs and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations as in the Chinese publication. Chinese Cultural Relics covers a wide range of topics, including: - New archaeological findings - Research & exploration - Archaeological preservation - Bronze wares - Ceramics - Ancient seals & currency - Grottoes & statues - Bamboo slips & documents - Museum exhibitions - Ancient towns & villages - Inscriptions & epitaphs - Archaeology of science & technology

Chinese Cultural Relics Vol. 1 No. 1

Garry Guan (editor)

Yuting Gao (editor)

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