Publisher's Synopsis
These volumes bring you the most compact, comprehensive and economically priced reference work of its kind. The encyclopaedia provides you with authoritative sources of facts and information. Its clear and straightforward style is free from jargon so that its depth and range of subject matter can be easily understood. In this way, this set acts as a powerful educational force, maintaining the highest standards of scholarship. It is extremely well planned, very readable and a major asset to any library or information service.
