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"The Illustrated Library of the World and Its Peoples" - recent editions?
This comes in 17 red volumes, I think, with LOTS of color photos, and
each volume covers two or three small countries, or, in the case of China, the reverse. (That is, China takes 373 pages, or more than a volume and a half.) I'm guessing it's suitable for use by high-schoolers. The trouble is, the last edition I know of was printed in the 1960s. Does anyone know if it were ever updated, and if not, what would be the best recent substitute? After all, even the Encyclopedia Britannica does not, IIRC, give so much space to individual countries. Lenona. |
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"The Illustrated Library of the World and Its Peoples" - recent editions?
In article ,
"John R. Yamamoto-Wilson" wrote: For things like this (including Britannica) an online subscription (which gives access to updates and amendments) might be better than a set of volumes, which will go out of date pretty quickly. I suspect that totally free online resources such as wikipedia, digitaluniverse.net, and so on are just as good as subscription information resources -- and certainly all are better and more current than printed books. |
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