Britannica Book of the YearFranklin Henry Hooper, Walter Yust Encyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated, 1987 |
Inhalt
An Introduction FEATURES | 7 |
The Real American Bicentennial by Mortimer J Adler | 8 |
Australias Bicentennial Year by K S Inglis | 20 |
BRITANNICA AWARDS | 25 |
BRITANNICA UPDATE 27 Major Revisions from the 1987 Macropaedia 27 The Islamic World | 27 |
Population | 38 |
Nietzsche | 47 |
Recent Books | 50 |
The Hypersonic Future by David Woolley | 409 |
The Automobiles 100Year Journey by Harry Smallenburg SPECIAL REPORT Ethnicity and the NorthSouth Divide in Ugandan Politics by Ali A Ma... | 441 |
Qadhdhafi Under Attack by Robert Fisk | 457 |
Facing the Economic Challenge by Janet H Clark | 478 |
The Francophone Summit by Campbell Page | 494 |
Expo 86 by Peter Ward | 524 |
Texas Sesquicentennial by Melinda Shepherd | 528 |
The Centennial of Lady Liberty by Bonnie Oberman SIDEBAR The Roots of Maori Nationalism by Ranginui J Walker | 563 |
THE YEAR IN REVIEW | 54 |
Chronology of 1986 | 55 |
APRIL | 60 |
75th anniversary of the death | 68 |
People of 1986 | 76 |
Obituaries | 100 |
150th anniversary of the founding | 108 |
Events of 1986 | 127 |
Canada | 139 |
50th anniversary of the death | 166 |
Encounters with Halley and Uranus by Kenneth Brecher SPECIAL REPORT PrivatizationAn Emerging Force by John Andrews SIDEBAR What Ma... | 194 |
211 | 196 |
Chernobyl The Sequence of Events by Bruce C Netschert SPECIAL REPORT After the Oil Price Collapse by Peter R Odell | 204 |
National holiday in Belgium | 206 |
The Channel Tunnel A Positive View by Geoffrey J Noblett | 217 |
The Liability Insurance Crisis by David C Beckwith | 239 |
CDROM The Possibilities Grow by Edward S Warner | 262 |
The Paris Fashion Museum by Thelma Sweetinburgh | 307 |
75th anniversary of the death of | 310 |
Domesday Book by Ann Williams | 318 |
Pope John Paul II Visits Romes Synagogue by Peter Hebblethwaite | 329 |
Religion in a Troubled Land by Martin E Marty | 330 |
The Year the Space Program Stopped by Tony Reichhardt | 343 |
The XIII Commonwealth Games by Chris Brasher | 392 |
The Royal Shakespeare Company at 25 by Ossia Trilling | 406 |
Theatre in Chicago by Richard D Christiansen | 408 |
Book of the Year Contributors | 572 |
Flags of the Nations following page 576 | 576 |
WORLD DATA | 577 |
The Nations of the World | 586 |
Bermuda | 604 |
Brunei | 610 |
China | 622 |
Côte dIvoire | 628 |
Republic | 649 |
681 | 660 |
Iran | 670 |
Jamaica | 676 |
Korea North | 684 |
Major cities and national capitals 854 | 690 |
Morocco | 709 |
New Caledonia | 715 |
Oman | 721 |
Philippines | 727 |
Romania | 733 |
Housing and construction | 890 |
Household budgets | 896 |
Health services | 902 |
Education | 914 |
Cultural institutions | 920 |
INDEX | 929 |
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