Describes the economic, political, and social situation of each of the five main Central Asian states. This exhaustively researched and up-to-date single-volume has a section for each state--Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

A guide to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, providing coverage of a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues.This reference work covers a wide range of topics on Central Asia as a whole. From the geography, history, and economics to politics, education, and religion, students and teachers will find this an informative and comprehensive research source.

Offers historical and cultural information and practical travel tips for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, and includes additional information for traveling the Karakoram Highway into China. This is more a travel guide than a scholarly handbook, and a bit outdated. Yet it gives an insight into the emerging states of Central Asia at the time.

This handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our time.