Macmillan Encyclopedia 1998 (1 Vol) (The Macmillan Encyclopedia)

by Alan Isaacs (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.47

  This volume features events up to the 1997 UK election result. New subjects in this edition include: Dunblane; gun laws; Orange Prize; Taleban Militia; and the World Trade Organization. New people include: Sir Peter Blake; Eric Cantona; Damien Hurst; Sir Harold Kroto; Michael Johnson; Jonah Lomu; Binyamin Netanyahu; Avro Part; Graham Swift; and Vivienne Westwood. Many entries have also been updated to record political changes throughout the world, including conflicts in Afghanistan and Zaire. The encyclopedia's 25,500 entries are supplemented by 1200 illustrations, plus a mini-atlas section and picture essays in colour. The text should be useful as a source of general reference, homework and study or general use at home.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.47

  Contains more than 25,500 entries written by 100 expert contributors, 1,200 illustrations, 30 picture essays and 18 maps. It is unique in being the only general encyclopedia to be updated every year. This year over 2,000 entries were revised to take account of among other things the changes in Russia, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. There are also many new biographies including Andre Agassi, Boutros Ghali, Bill Clinton, Jacques Dolors and Jacques Derida. The encyclopedia is particularly strong on science and technology, with picture essays and full page illustrations explaining colour photography and the internal combustion engine, for example, but it also contains a whole library of facts on the countries of the world, history, natural history, medicine and technology, sports, singers, theatre and literature and much more.