This book is the annual compilation of the trends, developments, and facts of 1994 - 58th edition.
The Index is the result of an accumulation of hundreds of thousands of references locating precisely the section of a page in which a person, place, thing, or idea is mentioned in any of the thousands of Encyclopaedia Britannica articles. These references have been assembled, combined, edited, and alphabetized to make an Index of more than 400,000 references. This Index gathers together all the…
This volume of Encyclopedia Britannica contains: an Index to volumes 1 to 23; an Atlas of the World; an Index to the Atlas of the World; a Glossary of Foreign Geographical Terms; and complete listings of all the contributors to Encyclopedia Britannica, first alphabetically by initials that are signed to the articles and then alhabetically by the last name.
In the life of an Encyclopedia ia measured by editions and printings, then this printing of the Encyclopedia Britannica marks the completion of 200 years of its continuous publication. If the life of an encyclopedia is measured by the passage of time, then December 1968 will mark the beginning of this encyclopedia's third century of continous exixtence as a survey of universal knowledge.
The 12 volumes of Micropaedia contain tens of thousands of shorter articles on specific persons, places, things, and ideas, arranged in alphabetical order. The micropaedia can be used as an information resource on its own; and it can function as support for the longer articles in the Macropaedia. The Micropaedia in turn is supported bya references in the Index and by the list of suggested readi…
The Encyclopedia Americana was the first encyclopedia published in the United States. Its first volumes appeared in 1829, and it has continued as a standard general reference work for 162 years. Many American and European intellectuals contributed to the first edition.
The World Book Dictionary provides information about the meaning, spelling, and pronounciation of the most important and most frequently used words and phrases in the English language. It records facts about the use of these words in both the spoken and written language. And it includes the origin, history, and development of thousands of words