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Manufacturer's Description

Encyclopaedia Britannica Millennium 4th Edition
Delivers 41,000 articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica covering art, history, geography, technology, pop culture, and more. With extra features such as a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas and multimedia, it's a comprehensive resource for the home, school or office.

Key Features:

MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY & THESAURUS - find 555,000 entries with a click of the mouse.

TIMELINES - history unfolds vividly with Britannica timelines showing the people, events, and discoveries of the past.

WORLD ATLAS - tour the world with 1,360 clickable maps and link to articles about countries, economies, cultures, and national statistics.

RESEARCH ORGANISER - manage research with tools for note taking, saving bookmarks and pictures, and formatting reports.

WEB LINKS - links to 167,000 sites you can trust, selected by Britannica editors, for a wealth of additional information.

Encyclopaedia Britannica presents Human Body:

Enter the world of health and discover how people grow and develop, transport materials within their body, and combat disease. This program presents a virtual museum with interactive exhibits and combines health issues, medical technology, historical events in medicine, and biological information.

Key Features:

FOCUSED AND INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT - contains written text, narration, photographs, sounds, full screen video segments, diagrams, 3-D models and simulations for exploring the health, structure, and processes of the human body.

ACTIVITY CENTRE - provides investigation ideas and tools for producing projects.

ACCESS TO EXTERNAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS - a word processor, a drawing program, presentation software, and a spreadsheet.

WEB LINKS - direct links to related Internet sites.

Penguin Hutchinson Reference Suite:
Nine classic essential books from two of the UK's most trusted reference publishers are brought together in multimedia format through the power of the PC. Designed to help you produce excellent essays and expand your mind with stats, facts and figures to enliven your understanding of the modern world.

Contains:

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia

Roget's Thesaurus

The Hutchinson Chronology Of World History Compact Edition

The New Penguin Dictionary Of Quotations

The Helicon Book Of Days

Longman Dictionary Of The English Language

Usage And Abusage

The Hutchinson Dictionary Of Computing, Multimedia And The Internet

The Hutchinson Internet Dictionary

Concise Oxford English Dictionary 11th Edition:
This major new edition of the world-famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary provides an authoritative description of the English language. With instant access to over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, this program is ideal for anyone needing an up-to-date dictionary of current English on their PC for study, work, or home.

Key Features:
Covers current English from around the world, plus rare, historical, and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary.

Detailed appendices providing useful information on topics such as Kings and Queens of England & the UK and Chemical Elements.

Spoken pronunciations for more than 50,000 headwords.

A Guide to Good English plus hundreds of extra notes offering advice on grammar, punctuation, spelling and word usage.

Interactive word games providing hours of learning and fun.