Eyewitness World Atlas CD-ROM (win)

This CD-ROM presents data as never before in a stunning fusion of style and content. Beautifully detailed maps, photographs, and videos are backed up with enough facts, statistics, charts, and graphs to satisfy anyone. View the world through compelling cartographic maps, dazzling images, and exciting 3D graphics. Or, explore the huge encyclopedic database using state-of-the-art software features.

Additional features:
* 500,000 words of text in a searchable database
* Over 40,000 separate data fields
* Approximately 400 maps
* Thousands of graphs and charts, generated "live" from the database
* 33 videos
* 250 photographs
* Flags for every country in the world
* An extensive online site accessed from the disc

DK Multimedia Minimum System Requirements: Personal computer with 75MHz or faster Pentium(r) processor with at least 16 MB RAM, 8- or 16-bit sound card, quad-speed CD-ROM drive, 16-bit (32,000 color), 800 x 600 pixel display, Windows 95

From the moment the disc is loaded, each screen is visually stimulating without any hint of sensory overload. Select a country from the globe, or use the country index, or just take a journey through the countryside. You can look at the Physical World, the Political World, or the Earth at Night. Once you pick a nation to examine, you'll have access to up-to-date information about its people, climate, economics, resources, politics, communications, defense, aid, world affairs, environment, health, education, wealth, crime, media, tourism, and a historical chronology. And we do mean up-to-date: via the Go Online feature you can link to a web page for each country and to thousands of other atlas sites. The video and other graphics are excellent, the voice-overs articulate, and all the multimedia elements enhance the ondisc learning. Bottom Line: Not a quick reference lookup tool (you miss too much using this only for quick reference), but the teaching/learning atlas to buy for kids and adults alike. Strongly recommended for circulating and reference collections in public and academic libraries and every home.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

What's cool: Stunning 3D videos and extensive geographical database. Web interface allows access to up-to-the-minute data on places around the world.