American Desk Encyclopedia by Not Available (1998, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10019521465X
ISBN-139780195214659
eBay Product ID (ePID)7038729906

Product Key Features

Number of Pages912 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAmerican Desk Encyclopedia
SubjectEncyclopedias
Publication Year1998
TypeNot Available
AuthorNot Available
Subject AreaReference
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight35.3 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN98-233151
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"A worthwhile and affordable purchase for home reference and for public, high-school, and undergraduate libraries needing a reliable one-volume resource for ready reference."--Booklist
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal031
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisHere is one of the most up-to-date, affordable, and convenient encyclopedias on the market, offering more than 15,000 alphabetically arranged entries, placing a world of information within arm's reach. The ENCYCLOPEDIA also offers an attractive page layout, with 300 black-and-white illustrations, along with a 16-page color map section., Oxford's American Desk Encyclopedia is the most up to date, affordable, and convenient encyclopedia on the market, offering over 15,000 alphabetically arranged entries that put a world of information within arm's reach. Virtually any topic you would want information on you will find here. There are numerous biographical entries well over 3,000 in all that cover artists, writers, and composers; military, political, and world leaders; religious and business figures; scientists and inventors, and much more. Readers will find concise entries on geographical places from mountains, rivers, and seas to cities, regions, and nations. Science is perhaps the biggest category covered, encompassing physics, astronomy, chemistry, the environment, mathematics, the life sciences including many entries on animals, plants, and minerals plus hundreds of entries on technology (inventions, machine parts, and so on). There are literary terms, artistic movements, architectural styles, musical periods. Religion and mythology, medicine and health, sports and entertainment, politics and the law--all are covered here. The Encyclopedia also offers an attractive page layout, with hundreds of black-and-white illustrations, plus a sixteen-page color map section. Its compact trim size makes it fit neatly in any convenient space on a desk or on the kitchen counter--ready whenever you need fast information. And finally, the Encyclopedia is a great bargain, a cloth-bound reference work at a paperback price. Wide ranging, authoritative, portable, affordable, and engagingly illustrated, The American Desk Encyclopedia will be the mainstay of your home or office library.
LC Classification NumberAG5.A44 1998

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