030 General Encyclopedic Works
Dorling Kindersley. Ultimate Visual Dictionary. (Illus.) NY: DK Publishing, 1998. 640pp. $14.95 (paper). 97-44408. ISBN 0-7894-2874-1. Index; C.I.P.
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Anyone who has seen the hardcover edition of this book will welcome with eagerness this new high-quality paperback edition. The publisher is to be commended for reproducing the quality of the hardcover original, but putting it into a handy, portable 6"x 6" x 1.5" format. Over 5,000 color photographs and 1,000 full-color illustrations with more than 30,000 clearly referenced terms make for a fascinating sourcebook. Younger children will enjoy simply flipping through its pages, exploring a visual feast and no doubt attempting to reproduce many of the illustrations on their own. Older students and adults will find the extensive and comprehensive index easy to use to locate the desired object quickly and to check on proper nomenclature or study the interrelationship of different parts to the whole object. Many of the photographs are so vivid that they seem to emerge right out of the page into your lap. From the inside of a golf ball to the surface of the sun, from the mechanics of a jet engine to the interior of a piano, and from anatomy to zoology and much in between, this book will delight every owner with hours of fun and learning.—Dennis W. Cheek, Rhode Island Department of Education, Providence, RI
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