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Guyana

1. Biodiversity in Guyana
2. CIA World Factbook: Guyana
3. Ethnologue Language Database: Guyana
4. Guyana Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
5. Library of Congress Country Studies: Guyana
6. Maps of the Americas
7. Political Resources on the Net: Guyana
8. Social Indicators: Less Populous Countries
9. World Travel Guide: Guyana

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Biodiversity in Guyana

Details of an insect collection programme and research project in Guyana, including a bibliography Entomological Literature in Guyana.
     Author: Bishop Museum, Hawaii
     Subjects: biodiversity, entomology, guyana
     DeweyClass: 595.7
     Resource type: bibliography, documents

CIA World Factbook: Guyana

Basic reference information about Guyana, 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: guyana
     DeweyClass: 918.8
     Resource type: document

Ethnologue Language Database: Guyana

A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Guyana, 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: guyana
     DeweyClass: 409.88
     Resource type: document

Guyana Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006

Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Guyana. 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: guyana
     DeweyClass: 323.88
     Resource type: document

Library of Congress Country Studies: Guyana

Detailed handbook describing the history of Guyana 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: guyana
     DeweyClass: 988
     Resource type: documents

Maps of the Americas

Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering Canada, all the countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
     Author: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: antigua and barbuda, argentina, bahamas, barbados, belize, bermuda, bolivia, brazil, canada, canadian geography, caribbean, central america, chile, colombia, costa rica, cuba, dominica, dominican republic, ecuador, el salvador, grenada, guatemala, guyana, haiti, honduras, jamaica, mexico, nicaragua, panama, paraguay, peru, saint kitts nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent, south america, suriname, trinidad and tobago, uruguay, venezuela, world maps
     DeweyClass: 912.7
     Resource type: map collection

Political Resources on the Net: Guyana

Listing of political resources relevant to Guyana, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
     Author: Torre Argentina Societa di Servizi - Agora telematica Division
     Subjects: guyana
     DeweyClass: 320.988
     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: Guyana

Basic reference information about Guyana, 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 Press
     Subjects: guyana, south american travel and tourism
     DeweyClass: 918.8
     Resource type: documents