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Bahrain

      Titles Descriptions
  1. Arab Net: Bahrain
  2. Bahrain Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
  3. CIA World Factbook: Bahrain
  4. Economic Development Board Bahrain
  5. Ethnologue Language Database: Bahrain
  6. Library of Congress Country Studies: Bahrain
  7. Maps of the Middle East
  8. Model League of Arab States: Bahrain
  9. Political Resources on the Net: Bahrain
  10. Social Indicators: Less Populous Countries
  11. World Travel Guide: Bahrain

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Arab Net: Bahrain
Brief details of the history and geography of Bahrain, as well as business, culture, government and transport information.
     Author: Saudi Research & Marketing Group
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 953.65
     Resource type: documents
Bahrain Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Bahrain. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
     Author: US Department of State
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 323.5365
     Resource type: document
CIA World Factbook: Bahrain
Basic reference information about Bahrain, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
     Author: CIA
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 915.365
     Resource type: document
Economic Development Board Bahrain
Government organisation established to attract inward investment and encourage expansion of the profitable export of Bahraini products. Includes details of events in Bahrain.
     Author: Bahrain Promotion and Marketing Board
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 330.5365
     Resource type: promotion
Ethnologue Language Database: Bahrain
A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Bahrain, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 409.5365
     Resource type: document
Library of Congress Country Studies: Bahrain
Detailed handbook describing the history of Bahrain and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 953.65
     Resource type: documents
Maps of the Middle East
Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering all the countries in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, including several maps of Iraq, Kuwait and Kurdish areas in the Middle East.
     Author: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: bahrain, iran, iraq, israel, jordan, kuwait, lebanon, maps of asia, middle east, oman, qatar, saudi arabia, syria, united arab emirates, yemen
     DeweyClass: 912.56
     Resource type: map collection
Model League of Arab States: Bahrain
Summary of the nature and structure of government of Bahrain, with links to several other resources about the country.
     Author: Haynes, Ed
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 351.5365
     Resource type: document
Political Resources on the Net: Bahrain
Listing of political resources relevant to Bahrain, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
     Author: Torre Argentina Societa di Servizi - Agora telematica Division
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 320.95365
     Resource type: documents, index
Social Indicators: Less Populous Countries
Part of the UNICEF Progress of Nations report, giving a summary of the social indicators and relative standing of countries with populations of less than one million. The indicators used to construct the league table include access to sanitation; per cent reduction in under-5 mortality, and women at top levels of government.
     Author: UNICEF
     Subjects: antigua and barbuda, bahamas, bahrain, barbados, belize, brunei, cape verde, comoros, cyprus, djibouti, dominica, equatorial guinea, fiji, grenada, guyana, iceland, kiribati, luxembourg, maldives, malta, marshall islands, micronesia, palau, qatar, saint kitts nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent, samoa, sao tome and principe, seychelles, solomon islands, suriname, swaziland, tonga, tuvalu, vanuatu
     DeweyClass: 338.9
     Resource type: reference document
World Travel Guide: Bahrain
Basic reference information about Bahrain, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
     Author: Columbus Publishing
     Subjects: bahrain
     DeweyClass: 915.365
     Resource type: documents