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Lebanon Encyclopædia Britannica Article Additional Reading > Geography General discussions of the land and people may be found in W.B. Fisher, The Middle East, 7th ed. (1978); and David C. Gordon, The Republic of Lebanon: Nation in Jeopardy (1983). Shereen Khairallah, Lebanon (1979), is an annotated bibliography of works on all aspects of the country. Economic and social matters are discussed by Abdul-Amir Badrud-din, The Bank of Lebanon (1984); Nadim G. Khalaf, The Economic Implications of the Size of Nations; with Special Reference to Lebanon (1971); Huda C. Zurayk and Haroutune K. Armenian, Beirut 1984 (1985); Joseph Chamie, Religion and Fertility: Arab Christian-Muslim Differentials (1981); Yusif A. Sayigh, Entrepreneurs of Lebanon (1962), a study of the role of entrepreneurs in the national development of Lebanon; Anne H. Fuller, Buarij: Portrait of a Lebanese Muslim Village (1961, reissued 1968); Liliane Germanos-Ghazaly, Le Paysan, la terre et la femme: organisation sociale d'un village du Mont-Liban (1978); Friedrich Ragette (ed.), Beirut of Tomorrow: Planning for Reconstruction (1983); and John Gulick, Tripoli: A Modern Arab City (1967). Useful discussions of Lebanese government include Michael W. Suleiman, Political Parties in Lebanon: The Challenge of a Fragmented Political Culture (1967); and George Grassmuck and Kamal Salibi, Reformed Administration in Lebanon, 2nd ed. (1964). See also Adel A. Freiha, L'Armée et l'état au Liban, 1945–1980 (1980); R.D. McLaurin, “Lebanon and Its Army: Past, Present, and Future,” in Edward E. Azar et al., The Emergence of a New Lebanon: Fantasy or Reality?, pp. 79–114 (1984); William W. Harris, Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions (1997); and Charles Winslow, Lebanon: War and Politics in a Fragmented Society (1996). Cultural matters are discussed by Lawrence I. Conrad, “Culture and Learning in Beirut,” The American Scholar, 52:463–478 (Autumn 1983); and Friedrich Ragette, Architecture in Lebanon: The Lebanese House During the 18th and 19th Centuries (1974, reprinted 1980). Lebanon... (75 of 14014 words) More from Britannica on "Lebanon"... 560 Encyclopædia Britannica articles, from the full 32 volume encyclopedia > Lebanon country located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Consisting of a narrow strip of territory approximately 135 miles (215 kilometres) long from north to south and 20 to 55 miles wide from ... > Lebanon city, seat (1813) of Lebanon county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., in the Lebanon Valley, 23 miles (37 km) east of Harrisburg. Settled by immigrant Germans in the 1720s, it was laid out (c. 1750) ... > Lebanon city, seat of Wilson county, north-central Tennessee, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) east of Nashville and about 5 miles (10 km) south of the Cumberland River. 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