Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents 2014 -- Dates of 2013 -- Calendar -- Disasters -- People of 2013 -- Nobel Prizes -- Biographies -- Obituaries -- SPECIAL REPORTS (SRs) AND YEAR IN REVIEW -- The 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- The Emancipation Proclamation's Sesquicentennial -- Notable Anniversaries of 2013 -- Anthropology -- Discovering King Richard III -- Archaeology -- Architecture -- Video Mapping: A Medium for Projection Artists -- Fashion Performing as Art -- Art and Art Exhibitions -- ART -- ART EXHIBITIONS -- PHOTOGRAPHY -- Business Overview -- Big Data: Mining for Nuggets of Information -- Crowdfunding -- Bitcoin: The Rise of Virtual Currency -- The Crumbling U.S. Infrastructure -- Notable Civil Engineering Projects (in work or completed, 2013) -- Computers and Information Systems -- 3D Printing -- Earth Sciences -- GEOPHYSICS -- METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATE -- The Weather Extremes of 2012-13: Taking Cues from Climate Change? -- Sinkholes: The Human Impact -- The Race to Reach Antarctica's Subglacial Lakes -- The European Central Bank Flexes Its Muscles -- U.S. Sequestration Ramifications -- MOOCs: The Fastest-Growing Curriculum for Higher Education -- Elephant Poaching -- The Disappearance of Butterflies -- The Environment -- INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES -- WILDLIFE CONSERVATION -- Fashions -- The Ebony Fashion Fair: Celebrating a Couture Showcase -- DSM-5: The New "Bible of Psychiatry" -- Robotic Surgery -- Is There a Cure for HIV? -- Notable U.S. Supreme Court Decisions of the 2012-13 Term -- Life Sciences -- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS -- PALEONTOLOGY -- PHOTO ESSAY: New Species of 2013 -- Literature -- ENGLISH -- GERMAN -- FRENCH -- ITALIAN -- SPANISH -- PORTUGUESE -- RUSSIAN -- PERSIAN -- ARABIC -- CHINESE -- JAPANESE -- The Enduring Legacy of Jane Austen.

Drones: New Frontiers in UAVs -- Women in Combat -- Performing Arts -- MUSIC -- DANCE -- THEATRE -- MOTION PICTURES -- The Birth of Beatlemania -- Intrigue at the Bolshoi Ballet -- Physical Sciences -- CHEMISTRY -- PHYSICS: METAMATERIALS -- ASTRONOMY -- SPACE EXPLORATION -- Rocks in Space: The Search for Asteroids -- The Roman Catholic Church Under Pope Francis -- The Teavangelicals -- RELIGION: Analyzing Global Data on Religious Adherents 1900-2013 -- The Slow Food Movement: A Delicious Revolution -- PHOTO ESSAY: Holi: The Hindu Festival of Colour -- The Detroit Municipal Bankruptcy -- New Service Roles for Animals -- Assault Weapons -- Sports Roundup -- Fantasy Football -- Sabermetrics: Baseball by the Numbers -- Sporting Record -- Reassessing Airport and Airline Security -- World Affairs in 2013 -- Arab Uprisings -- The Boston Marathon Bombings -- Legal Strides in Same-Sex Marriage -- Super Typhoon Haiyan Scourges Southeastern Asia -- World Affairs -- UNITED NATIONS -- EUROPEAN UNION -- MULTINATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS -- DEPENDENT STATES -- ANTARCTICA -- ARCTIC REGIONS -- Countries of the World -- THE GERMAN ELECTION -- JEJU SOUTH KOREA: ISLAND OF PEACE AND OF CONTROVERSY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- World Data -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Countries, Dependencies, and Territories -- Afghanistan -- Albania -- Algeria -- American Samoa -- Andorra -- Angola -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Argentina -- Armenia -- Aruba -- Australia -- Austria -- Azerbaijan -- Bahamas, The -- Bahrain -- Bangladesh -- Barbados -- Belarus -- Belgium -- Belize -- Benin -- Bermuda -- Bhutan -- Bolivia -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Botswana -- Brazil -- Brunei -- Bulgaria -- Burkina Faso -- Burundi -- Cambodia -- Cameroon -- Canada -- Cape Verde.

Cayman Islands -- Central African Republic -- Chad -- Chile -- China -- Colombia -- Comoros -- Congo, Democratic Republic of the -- Congo, Republic of the -- Costa Rica -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Croatia -- Cuba -- Curaçao -- Cyprus -- Czech Republic -- Denmark -- Djibouti -- Dominica -- Dominican Republic -- East Timor (Timor-Leste) -- Ecuador -- Egypt -- El Salvador -- Equatorial Guinea -- Eritrea -- Estonia -- Ethiopia -- Faroe Islands -- Fiji -- Finland -- France -- French Guiana -- French Polynesia -- Gabon -- Gambia, The -- Georgia -- Germany -- Ghana -- Greece -- Greenland -- Grenada -- Guadeloupe -- Guam -- Guatemala -- Guernsey -- Guinea -- Guinea-Bissau -- Guyana -- Haiti -- Honduras -- Hong Kong -- Hungary -- Iceland -- India -- Indonesia -- Iran -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Isle of Man -- Israel -- Italy -- Jamaica -- Japan -- Jersey -- Jordan -- Kazakhstan -- Kenya -- Kiribati -- Korea, North -- Korea, South -- Kosovo -- Kuwait -- Kyrgyzstan -- Laos -- Latvia -- Lebanon -- Lesotho -- Liberia -- Libya -- Liechtenstein -- Lithuania -- Luxembourg -- Macau -- Macedonia -- Madagascar -- Malawi -- Malaysia -- Maldives -- Mali -- Malta -- Marshall Islands -- Martinique -- Mauritania -- Mauritius -- Mayotte -- Mexico -- Micronesia, Federated States of -- Moldova -- Monaco -- Mongolia -- Montenegro -- Morocco -- Mozambique -- Myanmar (Burma) -- Namibia -- Nauru -- Nepal -- Netherlands -- New Caledonia -- New Zealand -- Nicaragua -- Niger -- Nigeria -- Northern Mariana Islands -- Norway -- Oman -- Pakistan -- Palau -- Panama -- Papua New Guinea -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Philippines -- Poland -- Portugal -- Puerto Rico -- Qatar -- Réunion -- Romania -- Russia -- Rwanda -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Saint Lucia -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- Samoa -- San Marino -- Sao Tome and Principe -- Saudi Arabia -- Senegal -- Serbia -- Seychelles.

Sierra Leone -- Singapore -- Sint Maarten -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Solomon Islands -- Somalia -- South Africa -- Spain -- Sri Lanka -- Sudan -- Sudan, South -- Suriname -- Swaziland -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Syria -- Taiwan -- Tajikistan -- Tanzania -- Thailand -- Togo -- Tonga -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- Turkmenistan -- Tuvalu -- Uganda -- Ukraine -- United Arab Emirates -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Uruguay -- Uzbekistan -- Vanuatu -- Venezuela -- Vietnam -- Virgin Islands (U.S.) -- Yemen -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe -- Comparative National Statistics -- World and regional summaries -- Government and international organizations -- Area and population -- Major cities and national capitals -- Language -- Religion -- Vital statistics, marriage, family -- National product and accounts -- Energy -- Communications -- Social protection and defense services (social security, crime, military) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of Special Features in Britannica Book of the Year, 2005-2014.