The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy (CKID) was established in January 1998. A non-profit organization, the Institute was founded for the purpose of examining and analyzing social, political and economic issues. The objective of the Institute is to contribute to the advancement of democracy, civil liberties and private enterprise, while remaining committed to development and...

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Historical Abstracts are organized by region and guide through the history of the world since 1450, allowing to browse chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in world history. Suggested research topics and easy-to-use search tools, provided within each topic area, allow to research the entire database for articles, books, collections, and dissertations.

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Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.

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The Making of America collection comprises the digitized pages of books and journals. A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. At the University of Michigan, approximately...

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Country facts and cultural information on the countries of the world.

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Wiley InterScience covers content from more than 2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library, which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than half of Wiley's journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative. From 2007, in conjunction...

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ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.

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For hundreds of different types of jobs the Occupational Outlook Handbook gives information aboutQ 1.the training and education needed 2.earnings 3.expected job prospects 4.what workers do on the job 5.working conditions

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NATLEX, the database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department. Records in NATLEX provide abstracts of legislation and relevant citation information, and they are indexed by keywords and by subject classifications. Each record in NATLEX appears in only one of the three ILO official languages...

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DISA is a freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994, providing a wealth of material on this fascinating period of the country's history.

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