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Seller: Grants Books, Belding, MI, U.S.A.Grants Books
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Very Large Books, Volumes 1A & 2B; The information listed with the picture above is correct, however, the two volumes here are White with a blue tree and gold printing; The New Book of Knowledge is uniquely related to the needs of modern children, both in school and at home. It is written for the children of today, who are standing on the threshold of a new world. Knowledge in every field is bursting its bonds. Old "truth" are becoming invalid; new "truths" are opening vistas never before imagined. The encyclopedia is addressed to the children of this new world. Today 's children need an encyclopedia as different from those that have gone before as today's world is different from that of yesterday. Over one thousand advisers and contributors, together with a staff of two hundred editors, artists, and related personnel, worked for six years to complete an alphabetically arranged, curriculum-oriented encyclopedia, a reference set designed for today's world.The New Book of Knowledge.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1504744373000
- Title
- The New Book of Knowledge
- Publisher
- Grolier
- Publication year
- 1980
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0717205118
- ISBN 13
- 9780717205110
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NBK notes world events of 1997--the revision deadline extended into November of 1997 so that off-year election results, the 1997 Nobel Prize winners, and the results of the 1997 World Series could be included. Also included is information on the election of Tony Blair as British prime minister in May, the Pathfinder probe to Mars, and the deaths of Princess Diana and Mobuto Sese Seko. Motion pictures has a note on the death of James Stewart. The article on Hong Kong includes the information about its reversion to Chinese rule, and there is information about Madeleine Albright becoming secretary of state. Some postdeadline events that made it into the 1998 edition included the death of Sonny Bono and the outcome of Superbowl XXXII.
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Grants Books
Belding, MI, U.S.A.
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