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e1000733
World Book Advanced Encyclopedia
The World Book Advanced Encyclopedia provides HTML full-text reference articles, ebooks, literary criticism, U.S. Supreme Court cases, U.S. presidential papers, special reports, research guides, timelines, maps, images, and multimedia in all academic disciplines.
Content includes
- A vast collection of primary source documents and full-text e-books
- More than 25,000 encyclopedia articles
- More than 10,000 sounds and pronunciations
- Thousands of images
- Correlated to state or provincial content standards
- Thousands of editor-selected Web sites
- Thousands of periodical articles
- Atlas and Dictionary databases
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Date
September 13, 2010
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