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Product description
The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare is one of the most powerful reference and research
tools available today. Includes: All's Well That Ends Well; King
John; The Phoenix and the Turtle; Anthony and Cleopatra;
King Lear; Five Poems; As You Like It; King Richard
II; Rape of Lucrece;
The Comedy of Errors; King Richard III; Romeo and Juliet;
Coriolanus; Love's Labour's Lost; 154 Sonnets; Cymbeline;
Lover's Complaint; The Taming of the Shrew; Hamlet, Prince
of Denmark; Macbeth; The Tempest; Henry V;
Measure for Measure; Timon of Athens; Henry VIII;
The Merchant of Venice; Titus Andronicus; Julius Caesar;
The Merry Wives of Windsor; Troilus and Cressida; Henry IV
Parts I and II; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night;
Much Ado About Nothing; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Henry VI
Parts I, II and III; Othello; Venus and Adonis; The
Passionate Pilgrim; The Winter's Tale; Pericles.
Product description
Manufacturer's description
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia
Deluxe 2002 is the complete easy-to-use multimedia encyclopedia for
school, home and work, with more articles, sidebars, web links and multi-media
than ever before. It offers a superior mix of authoritative content, engaging
technology, innovative educational tools and integration with the web.
Encarta
Encyclopedia Deluxe 2002 offers an extraordinary amount of rich, reliable,
up-to date content. With thousands of articles, sidebars, photos, illustrations,
videos, animations, sound clips, music clips, map locations and web links,
Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2002 lets you access a wealth of in-depth information
compiled by the world's leading authorities in reference and educational
publishing. Captivating multimedia immerses you in the sights and sounds
of your subject matter, whether it is a first person 3D Virtual Tour of
the Mayan Ruins or a look at the inside of the Space Shuttle. An Internet
connection expands your search to editorially screened web sites and notifies
you when there are content updates.
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Wherever you want to go,
someone has been there first. Desk-chair travellers and students alike
will love Microsoft Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2001, which
offers more detail than any other atlas yet available, plus multimedia
tours of hundreds of locations world-wide. Almost 2 million place names
include practically everybody's hometown; the dynamic maps let the user
follow chains of association beyond simple geography. Traditionalists will
approve of the flat maps outlining bioregions, political demarcations and
other qualities - all printable in a wide array of styles.
Local place-name spellings,
informative articles and numbers galore pepper the software with features
not found in other references, but the key to Encarta's success is its
optimisation of multimedia. Using images, sounds and web links to surround
the user with information, the Interactive World Atlas is both dazzling
and useful. Reports are easy to complete - use the researcher tool to gather,
organize and export information to Microsoft Office tools. While you might
not be able to discover new lands, you can certainly explore the world
we know without ever leaving home.
Manufacturer's description
Encarta Reference Library
2002 is the ultimate reference resource and engages students with more
up-to-date information and multi-media than ever before. Its intuitive
interface, fast, complete searches, dependable, abundant information and
captivating multi-media fulfil the learning and research needs of the family.
It combines leading multi-media reference titles Encarta Encyclopedia
Deluxe, Encarta Interactive World Atlas and Encarta Dictionary
and Thesaurus in one fully integrated reference resource.
The
DVD version delivers all the benefits on a single DVD to eliminate the
need to swap disks. It also offers additional benefits including more multi-media,
full-screen video, enhanced audio and virtual flights, a flight simulator
that lets you fly over the world's terrain and view if from above.
Encarta
Reference Library 2002 is the ideal educational partner for today's
busy teens.
Encarta Reference Library
2002 supplies students with the best tools for homework, reports and
projects, and significantly improves their chances for success in school.
In addition to providing fast, easy access to a wealth of information on
a myriad of topics, Encarta Researcher provides direction and guidance
in compiling and organizing information into impressive reports.
Encarta Reference Library
gives you access to a world of information with a single click.
From a single search, Encarta
gives you access to a world of information, as well as thousands of editorially
screened online sources - fast. In seconds, Encarta Reference Library
2002 delivers relevant articles, stock quotations, news items, multimedia,
statistics, historical perspectives, geographic information and more.
Encarta Reference Suite
2002 provides rich, relevant, up-to-date information that you can trust.
Content is compiled by thousands
of experts in numerous fields and scrupulously reviewed by a dedicated
editorial team. Each piece of information included in Encarta Reference
Library 2002 is evaluated using ACUBE - it must be Accurate, Current,
Understandable, Balanced and Engaging.
Encarta Reference Library
features new, compelling, multi-media that makes learning fun.
Experience notable historical,
geographic, cultural and political events and locations with captivating
multimedia. New 3D virtual tours, virtual flights, multimedia maps, dynamic
historical and music timelines and chronologies, thousands of videos, animations,
illustrations, photographs, speeches, anthems, music clips and pronunciations
bring your research to life.
Product Description
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Deluxe 2002 is an all-in-one resource featuring a comprehensive, highly
visual encyclopaedia, plus a dictionary and world atlas. Including animations,
360-degree panoramas, 131 video clips and 12,000-plus photos, this encyclopaedia
is designed to engage the senses and make your quest for knowledge a mind-expanding
adventure of discovery. A comprehensive article collection is supplemented
with an index that has over 613,000 internal hyperlinks and 300,000 Web
links, all hand-edited by the Britannica editorial team. Combined with
state-of-the-art search technology and new-and-improved results display,
Britannica can give you what you need and lead you to discover what
you never expected.
Bring
the world's best knowledge resource to your desktop with Encyclopaedia
Britannica 2002 DVD Edition, the all-in-one resource featuring a comprehensive,
highly visual encyclopaedia plus dictionary and world atlas - all on one
disc. With Britannica's renowned knowledge index providing 'intelligent
search' capabilities, and a new and improved results display, get what
you need - fast! Designed to engage all the senses, over seven hours of
video and audio will take you on a learning adventure.
Smart
search, best results
Retrieves
the information you need quickly, plus related knowledge areas that add
richness and breadth to your search results, using a comprehensive index
of over 613,000 knowledge links. This is the power behind the Britannica
Advantage.
Flexible
search & results display NEW!
Search
the way you prefer: simply ask a question or browse through an A-Z encyclopaedia
list. Filter your search results by media type quickly and easily. Click
on 'Web's Best’ to access over 300,000 related websites selected by Britannica's
renowned editors.
KnowledgeNavigator
NEW!
Learn
more by discovering unique perspectives on any topic as you explore a visual
index of subjects. Search, browse, explore and zero in on an article of
interest. Great for creative brainstorming.
Visual
tours & special features
Enhance
your learning experience with in-depth, visually-enriched topical tours.
Traverse the world's ecosystems or explore the human body. Over 24 topics
ranging from African Wildlife to Jazz Music.
Britannica
Classics proudly presents selected encyclopaedia articles by our 'Who's
Who' of contributors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Albert Einstein and
Marie Curie.
Interactivities,
animations, and 360-degree panoramas engage and expand understanding.
Timelines
Timelines
examines the effects of people, events, and discoveries from the dawn of
civilization to the present. View over 4,100 entries for 14 subject areas
including sports, technology, art, religion, and science.
World
atlas
Take
a tour of the world through more than 1,300 clickable maps. Five different
thematic treatments are offered for each country, plus current articles,
multilevel maps, and up-to-date national statistics. Click your way around
the world or zero in on continents, countries, regions, geographical features,
or peoples.
Research
organizer
Create
and type notes, enter bookmarks, capture pictures and format a report with
the tools you'll find in Research Organizer.
Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition
Get
the right spelling and over 215,000 definitions with this complete dictionary
resource.
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How
do you feel about your art savvy? If you'd like to know about a lot more,
the Encyclopedia of Western Art could fill this need. It's a superbly
produced introduction to Western art from the year 1000 to 1900. The two
CDs have been designed to particularly suit people who want to browse and
learn.
You
can approach the encyclopedia's information in several ways: chronologically,
by looking at particular artists by name, or by examining specific masterpieces,
or by discovering the artworks in a particular city. A glossary is on hand
to help with technical terms. Whatever approach you choose, the order of
the day is pointing and clicking while listening to classical music from
the time in history that your chosen work of art comes from.
Features
· 50
video sequences.
· 73
animations.
· 850
full colour photos and graphics.
· 3
hours of audio.
· Over
200,000 words of text.
Features
· Eight
times bigger than Version 1.0.
· Over
750,000 new words.
· Exciting
new videos and interactive features.
· Greatly
expanded Who's Who.
· Now
fully anglicized.
· Supports
National Curriculum Science/Mathematics KS 2, 3, 4.
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Children
are fascinated by space, the planets, and the idea that there is 'something
out there'. This CD-ROM is a great introduction for younger users, and
covers almost everything you can think of to do with space and astronomy.
There
are 3-D models of famous space craft for you to look at, and interactive
areas in which you can put together a rocket ready for launch or land a
module on the moon. But this CD is largely a database of information organized
in lots of different ways. There are sections on the famous people of space
exploration, the history of astronomy, and the different kinds of astronomy
that exist today. You can find out how stars are formed and how they die,
take a detailed look at all the planets in our solar system and learn about
the history of the space race.
You
can also take a trip to the Star Dome, which shows what you can see in
the night sky from anywhere in the world on any date. Then, when darkness
falls, pop outside your own house to see what you can see with binoculars,
telescope, or the naked eye. The Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and
the Universe is packed with information, and presented in the usual
Dorling Kindersley easy to use style. It is ideal for any budding astronomer.
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Eyewitness History
of the World 2.0 does a great job of establishing links among people,
places, and events from 500 BC to the present day. You can, for example,
view an article about Caribbean plantations in the 16th century, then quickly
establish that the Manchus were coming to power in China at about the same
time. Taking another approach, you can look up the British Empire and quickly
find links to Queen Victoria, Stamford Raffles, India, Australia, and other
related topics. You can also browse for specific articles, though the articles'
titles aren't always descriptive - it's better to use the full-text search
feature to locate terms such as 'civil war', 'penicillin', and 'Brazil'.
This last search term yields interesting references, including ones to
information about Mozambique, the slave trade, environmental protection,
and Portugal.
However, this isn't an
exhaustive treatment of world history. The CD-ROM makes no mention of Albert
Einstein, the Zimmermann Telegram, or Charles Dickens. The best way to
use this program is as a tool for uncovering connections among historical
phenomena, and to place events (particularly those separated geographically)
in time. Then use books and other resources to provide deeper information
about the subjects you (or your children) learn about here.
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How much of the last century
do you remember? As a dramatic chronicle of human life, the 20th century
is difficult to beat. Two world wars broke out, the communist political
system in the Soviet Union suddenly collapsed, Nelson Mandela was set free,
historic trips were made to the Moon, England actually won the World Cup
and Charles and Diana were married before a global TV audience. Dorling
Kindersley's 20th Century Day by Day brings the century alive again.
You're invited to experience events as they happened. The conflicts and
scandals that shocked society, the ideas that turned the world upside down
and the people who made it happen. As you enter a 3D virtual newsroom and
click on photographs and typewriters you are led back into the decades
of the 20th century. In the 1960s you can read about John Lennon, follow
the events of the Vietnam War and hear Martin Luther King talking of his
dream of a new kind of society. In the 'Twentieth Century in Focus' section,
you can re-live breakthroughs in space exploration. Watch videos of rockets
taking off and see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. Throughout the CD-ROM
you can search for famous people and places; follow a story of events through
from start to finish or simply browse the headlines and biographies.
This
is a highly stimulating and exciting multi-media chronicle of the 20th
century. More than 34,000 days of history are played back like breaking
news stories. It will be difficult for dusty history textbooks to compete
with this entertaining record of a rollercoaster century. Parents, grandparents
and children will love it.
Features
· Oxford
Hachette French, Oxford Spanish and Oxford Duden German
dictionaries.
· Accurate
and up-to-date coverage of the languages.
· Rapid
searching facilities.
· Ideal
resource for all those who use French, Spanish, and German.
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Looking for the right
line? Whether you are preparing a speech, researching an essay, or simply
looking to expand your conversational skills, the Oxford Dictionary
of Quotations can help. This prestigious reference work has long been
an essential on the bookshelf; on CD-ROM it may not be so weighty, but
it is packed with the same amount of material, easily searchable, and where
you need it - on your computer. The program is easy to install. Quick installation
requires 12 MB of free space. It installs the basic program, index and
fonts, but leaves the text on the CD-ROM, which can make for slightly slower
searching. Full installation requires 30 MB of free space, but puts the
whole text on your computer. The interface is intuitive: search by author
name, work or quotation. The 20,000+ quotations date from classical literature
to the present. There are hundreds of entries for some subjects (e.g. 'love')
and just a few for other subjects (six for 'football' and one for 'computer'.
The software doesn't sit on top of other platforms (you can't integrate
it with Word, for example), but cutting and pasting is easy enough. 'Every
quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the
language', wrote Samuel Johnson in his Dictionary of the English Language.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations on CD-ROM is a work he would
approve.
(This is the big one -
check out the price!)
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This new CD-ROM from OUP
puts four of their most popular reference books into one incredibly useful
package. The Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford Thesaurus,
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and Oxford World Encyclopaedia
are presented in an electronic reference library which works straightforwardly
for both Windows and web access.
The
best thing about the software is not only the combination of four such
useful volumes, but ease of use. Once the CD-ROM has been installed on
the hard drive it runs in the background of other programs, so that it
can be consulted and closed at the touch of a button without waiting for
the application to start up or shut down. Choose a single word, and the
appropriate references from each volume are listed, so that you can choose
which of the books is most relevant to your inquiry - and then, when you
are satisfied, close the reference list and return to your window.
This
package is much broader, richer and authoritative than any thesaurus or
dictionary on a most word processors. The lack of certain basic words in
standard dictionaries ceases to be an irritation here, and it is no longer
necessary to turn away from the screen to consult heavy books. This pop-up
CD-ROM could quite quickly become as indispensable to researchers, students
and authors as its leather-bound forebears.
Features
Access three of Oxford's
most authoritative scientific volumes:
· Oxford
Concise Dictionary of Science
· Oxford
Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors
· Oxford
Dictionary of Computing
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For anyone who has struggled
to find the words they want in the mysterious layout of a Roget's thesaurus,
the layout of the Oxford Thesaurus in A-Z Form will come as a total
relief. It's laid out in short entries, and each headword is in simple
alphabetical order, instead of being arranged thematically.
The search facility
that comes with the electronic format means that you can simply type in
the word you want to find a synonym for, and the program will automatically
list all the head words containing it. Then you can go to each with the
click of a mouse and find the word you typed ready highlighted for you.
On the down side, the range of vocabulary is quite limited, with some remarkable
omissions. Look up 'pig', and you will find senses under 'devour', 'glutton',
'over eat', 'police officer' and 'slob', but not its use as a general insult,
or different words for the simple animal such as 'swine' or 'sow'. Similarly
for 'cat' you will find the sense of 'cool guy' or 'whip' (twice) but not
'moggy' or 'unpleasant female'; and neither the word 'catty' nor the word
'bear' (the animal) appear at all. Also, the text on which the CD-ROM is
based dates from 1991, and it essentially reflects the language of the
1980s. Those who want a more up-to-date text may want to try the fuller
Oxford Thesaurus.
Features
· Answers
all your questions on grammar, spelling, usage, and punctuation.
· Over
65,000 definitions.
· Rulings
on spelling, punctuation, abbreviation, and foreign words and phrases.
· Comprehensive
information on word formation, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
· Nearly
4,000 striking quotations from 900 famous authors.
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One of the most comprehensive
collections of reference works available.
Nine classic essential
books from two of the UK's most trusted reference publishers are bought
together in multimedia format through the power of the PC. Designed to
help you produce excellent essays and expand your mind with stats, facts
and figures to enliven your understanding of the modern world.
· The
Hutchinson Encyclopedia - a British encyclopedia with articles and
illustrations on thousands of subjects.
· Roget's
Thesaurus - a feast of words for any writer! No need to be stuck for
a word ever again.
· The
Hutchinson Chronology of World History Compact Edition - Human history
from 500 million BC to the present day with key dates, facts and figures
on events in world politics, economics, society, religion, sport, education,
music, art, literature, the media and technology.
· The
Penguin Dictionary of Quotations - almost 2,000 sources and more than
10,000 quotations allows you to search for quotes on any subject to enrich
any piece of work.
· The
Helicon Book of Days - startling information on past events for each
day of the year.
· Longman
Dictionary of the English Language - more than 220,000 definitions,
so you can be sure of finding every word you need.
· Usage
and Abusage - clears up confusion about words and how to use them.
· The
Hutchinson Dictionary of Computing, Multimedia and the Internet - over
1,600 items explained - guaranteed to cure the technophobia.
· The
Hutchinson Internet Dictionary - over 4,000 recommended websites hand-picked
for their educational and informative content.
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Features
· Contains
authoritative and up-to-date information for every single country
· Over
30 full-screen, broadcast-quality MPEG2 videos.
· 8
spectacular flights over the world's most dramatic landscapes.
· Beautiful,
specially created maps.
· Hundreds
of photographs.
· Bring
the world right inside your home.
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