This updated edition offers wide-ranging and complete chronologies through 2005 and features 18 new plates and 150 newly designed maps and illustrations. New information covers the current situation in Iraq, as well as the Canadian provinces. Each updated volume in this comprehensive set provides hundreds of illustrations, tables, and graphs, and is arranged to closely follow today's school curriculum. Volume I covers ancient and medieval history, focusing on societies around the globe. Volume II explores the history of the expanding world, and Volume III examines the 20th century. Volume IV...

This five volume set puts English literature in context by providing the historical, cultural and social background of five major periods. Each volume is a basic introduction to the period, and provides summaries of the literary genres or each period and the representative writers and works.

This set comprises Facts on File Children's Atlas, Facts on File Environmental Atlas, Facts on File Stars & Planets Atlas and Facts on FIle Wildlife Atlas.

This title includes physical and political maps of the Middle East, a fact sheet for each nation, and charts and graphs illustrating economic and demographic statistics.

The 2005 Update is an excellent way to keep users abreast of global changes. A supplement containing 30 to 40 replacement maps and a new cumulative index, the Update allows those who have recently purchased a complete edition of Geography On File to keep the collection as current as possible.