Children's Illustrated Dictionary
Deluxe Edition

Young readers will find the Children's Illustrated Dictionary an invaluable tool for extending their language skills. Full color illustrations and photographs enliven every page and the book's easy-to-use format and lively text bring the history of language and word usage to life.

Special panels on every page provide bite-size pieces of information about spelling, grammar, and punctuation, encouraging children to master these sometimes tricky features of the English language.

• More than 8,000 carefully chosen entires
• More that 1,000 color illustrations and photographs
• Word history, spelling, grammar, and punctuation notes

379 pages - Beautifully Illustrated - 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 format

Webster's New Explorer
Student Dictionary

Created in cooperation with the editors of Merriam-Webster, Webster's New Explorer Student Dictionary is written especially for young students. The definitions are in plain language, yet the dictionary has many of the features of larger dictionaries designed for adults.

This dictionary contains more than 32,000 words and phrases. In addition, many other kinds of information appear in the dictionary, including Common Abbreviations, Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States, Branches of Government, Geographical Names, Important Events in American History, Confused, Misused, or Misspelled Words and a Math Refresher.

736 pages, 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 format

Webster’s New Explorer Medical Dictionary

Created in cooperation with the editors of Merriam-Webster, this essential 800 page reference provides clear definitions of more than 35,000 terms used in medicine today

• Up-To-Date: Includes the latest terminology in a rapidly changing field.  Medical professionals and laypeople alike can use this book to find complete and accurate definitions of medical terms in current use
• Easy To Understand: The technical vocabulary of the medical profession is made comprehensible by clearly written definitions and abundant examples of how words are used.
• Comprehensive: More than 35,000 entries include definitions and pronunciations for terms used in all aspects of human and veterinary medicine.  There are Latin and common names for condition, organs, and forms that create medical vocabulary.  Additionally, trademarked names of medicines and their generic equivalents are listed.

Civil Rights Chronicle:
The African-American Struggle
for Freedom

The Civil Rights Chronicle recounts the details of the civil rights movement, the decade-long struggle for equility. A 1,200 item timeline, unprecedented in size and scope, pinpoints significant events from the origins of the African slave trade up to the present day.

Reference Library of
Black America
5 Deluxe Hardcover Volumes

The Reference Library of Black America contains biographical data on an imposing roster of historical and contemporary personalities in the African-American community. Historical narratives, statistical tables and graphs present in great detail early 500 years of history.

Volume I: Chronology, African-American First, Significant Documents, Landmarks
Volume II: African and the Black Diaspora, African in America, Civil Rights, National Organizations
Volume III: Politics, Employment, Education, Religion
Volume IV: Literature, Media, Performing Arts, Classical Music, Blues & Jazz
Volume V: Popular Music, Visual & Applied Arts, Science & Technology, Sports, Military

Reference Library of Hispanic America
(4 Deluxe Hardcover Volumes)

The Reference Library of Hispanic America is a detailed look at Hispanic America from the earliest migration to the prominent citizen of today.  The four-volume set is stacked with photographs and biographical sketches of the people who have aided in the progress of Hispanics in America, as well as extensive descriptions of the Hispanic culture.

Volume I: Historical Overview, Explorers & Colonizers, Significant Documents, Historic Landmarks, Relations with Spain
Volume II:  Hispanics and Race, Population Growth, Language, The Family, Women, Religion, Business, Law, Government & Military, Labor & Employment, Education & Research
Volume III: Literature, Art, Theater, Film, Music, Media
Volume IV: Sports, Organization, Prominent Hispanics