Back to top Grolier's MultiMedia Encyclopedia Contains the full text of all 33,000 articles contained in the Academic American Encyclopedia on science, world history, music and art. Features 8,000 pictures, and 325 high resolution, detailed maps showing cities, towns, major highways and rivers, as well as video sequences, full-text word search, dropdown menus, notepads, bookmarks and links. A unique graphical timeline feature links 5,000 related articles in the encyclopedia. The 6 hours of multimedia includes interviews with experts in the fields of art, literature, sports, exploration and innovation. Also included is the Grolier Internet Index, which is a set of direct, editorially selected links to thousands of Web sites that complements the encyclopedia's already extensive content.
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Two thousand pieces drawn from 950 different titles, adding writings by thinkers and authors as diverse as Louisa May Alcott, Rousseau, the Bronte sisters, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Keats, Washington Irving, Locke, Spenser, Thoreau, and Mary Wollstonecraft. 3,500 complete and unabridged books, stories, plays and documents from more than 1,750 titles with full-motion video clips and hundreds of illustrations. Every word, phrase and punctuation mark left intact. The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia , The American Heritage Dictionary , The World Almanac and Book of Facts , The People's Chronology , Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations , The Original Roget's Thesaurus , Hammond Intermediate World Atlas , Microsoft Internet Directory 96 and the Concise Encarta 96 World Atlas . Just highlight a word in your document, select the reference work, and Bookshelf will find the information you want.