Encyclopedia Americana

ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA

(30 Vols)

 

The Americana has always stressed stylistic clarity, directness, and simplicity. The editor's goal of serving as a bridge between the world of the specialist and the general reader is skilfully accomplished in most instances.(Kister, Encyclopedia Buying Guide)

 

 

You can trust the Encyclopedia Americana to provide comprehensive information that's in-depth, reliable, and d up-to-date:

• More than 45,000 articles written by experts in easy-to-understan, layperson's language.
• The lastes demographic information on nations, their capitals, and most popular cities.
• Coverage of national and international events reflects the most recent developments possible
• Major revisions of articles on science and technology, society and politics, visual and performing arts, literature and philosophy, and other key areas
• Hundreds of new biographies in all major subject areas

 

Handy search features make the Encyclopedia Americana easy to use:

• Fact boxes highlight statistics and essential information
• Chorological tables provide a quick view of history
• Cross-reference direct readers to related articles and subjects
• 6,500 bibliographic for further reading

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA set features:

 

• 26,000 pages with over 23,000 illustrations, including 15,000 photographs, 3,800 diagrams and charts, and 1,200 maps
• 25 million words
• 7 ½  X 10 ¼
• Comprehensive Index

 

Encyclopedia Americana has been a well-respected resource for academics for more than 173 year (Americana Reference Books Annual, April 2003)

 

a worthwhile purchase for high school, academic, and public libraries (American Reference Books Annual, April 2001)

 

continues to offer excellent in-depth scholarly coverage, especially of American and Canadian topic very strong on biography. EA remains a good choice for any high-school, college, or public library collection.(Booklist, September 2001)