This volume features events up to the 1997 UK election result. New subjects in this edition include: Dunblane; gun laws; Orange Prize; Taleban Militia; and the World Trade Organization. New people include: Sir Peter Blake; Eric Cantona; Damien Hurst; Sir Harold Kroto; Michael Johnson; Jonah Lomu; Binyamin Netanyahu; Avro Part; Graham Swift; and Vivienne Westwood. Many entries have also been updated to record political changes throughout the world, including conflicts in Afghanistan and Zaire. The encyclopedia's 25,500 entries are supplemented by 1200 illustrations, plus a mini-atlas section and picture essays in colour. The text should be useful as a source of general reference, homework and study or general use at home.

 

There are 1336 pages in this book. This is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a book or numbered set of books containing authoritative summary information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged alphabetically by headword or classified in some manner. An entry may be signed or unsigned, with or without illustration or a list of references for further reading. Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for publication in a new edition. In a multivolume encyclopedia, any indexes are usually located at the end of the last volume. Encyclopedias may be general (example: Encyclopedia Americana) or specialized, usually by subject (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) or discipline (Encyclopedia of Social Work). This book was published 1997 by Pan Macmillan .