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On cover: More than 5,600 short biographies of leading figures from around the world in politics, literature, the arts, the sciences, and popular culture.

Pictures of common objects and their parts, each identified individually by name, are classed under such general categories as living things, transportation, and personal items.

This two-volume supplement updates and extends the original series coverage...of seventy-nine contemporary or hitherto neglected writers.

A glossary of geographic terms, from "archipelogo" to "zones", with definitions and descriptions of the Earth's features.