2011 volume provides "descriptions of more than 100 European ethnic and national groups. [ Preview ]

This annual compilation "documents election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms in all of the EU member states, plus Australia, Canada, Iceland, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States," with additional commentary. An interactive site is also available.

Subtitled Social Transformations in the 21st Century, this 2010 volume offers signed, comparative essays on "major topics of social concern and sociological relevance" concerning modern European countries. [ Preview ]

Third edition (2013) provides analysis of the political changes which have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of communism. You may preview the contents.

2012 volume contains individual overviews of each of 10 states in Eastern Europe. [ Preview ]

University of Texas map library, consisting mostly of scanned CIA maps.

The 30+ signed essays in this 2009 volume offer multidisciplinary, balanced coverage of political, social, economic, cultural and institutional dimensions of modern Europe. [ Preview ]

The IESBS (2002) is the largest reference work on the social and behavioral sciences ever published -- over 4,000 signed articles in 26 printed volumes.

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. Acquisition was made possible by the McCrum Palmer Book Fund.

Five-volume set (2nd edition; 2000) probably is the most comprehensive encyclopedia focusing on sociology ever published, containing nearly 400 substantial signed articles.

Five-colume set (2010) was prepared with the assistance of the American Political Science Association. It contains about 1,500 alphabetically-arranged, signed entries (including one contributed by Washington and Lee Professor Mark Rush) on "political theories, concepts, research frameworks, and political practices from across the world."