The next best thing to being half way across the world is to travel through the magic of Webcams. Software MacKiev has added hundreds of editor-approved Webcams to the 2008 edition of World Book. Witness the construction of the world's largest ferris wheel in Singapore. Look out for Nessie on Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. See the trains roll into Blumberg Station in southern Germany and the gondoliers navigating the Grand Canal in Venice. The webcams are all kid-safe and updated monthly. Find out where sitatungas live with World Book's newest widget. With more than a thousand gorgeous images from World Book articles gathered in a quiz format, you'll have fun learning about people, places and living things across the planet while viewing the best of World Book's media collection. If you're stumped, you can click through to the World Book article to find the answer. All World Book media content has been adapted to play on Apple's latest iPods including the new iPod Nano and iPod Touch. Exporting World Book content to your iPod is just one click away so you can take World Book's media library with you. Watch a documentary video clip on the Civil War or listen to World Book's rich music collection anywhere you roam. As a bonus, our This Day in History widget is also available as an iPhone application that you can also play on an iPod Touch. Each year the editors of the World Book's 22-volume paperbound version of the encyclopedia, update articles and add new ones. Those all are taken word for word into the multimedia edition. For 2008 there are more than 4,000 new and updated articles as well as lots of great new photographs, illustrations, video clips, and more.
T**1
Decent Resource, but lacking
While we didn't want to invest in an encyclopedia set, we wanted something more than hoping around the internet for information. So we purchased this for our 10 year old. While there is a lot of information presented in this encyclopedia, what is presented is very brief with very depth. The addition of media audio and video is something a book based encyclopedia can't provide, but the small size and short clips almost don't seem worth it. Lastly, the maps are small, and with the advent of Google and Yahoo Maps interactivity, the maps are archaic.If you're looking for very brief summaries on a variety of topics, this is a good place to start. If you're wanting something just a bit more, you'll be disappointed.For what you get, I believe the price is too high and overrated.
J**L
Great
Nice encyclopedia. I use it from time to time. However I wish that it had the full World Book dictionary.
G**N
Phenomenal Resource - Highly Recommended!
I am a teacher and graduate student (over 60 hours) and have used this resource for several projects. It came installed on my iBook G4 which I got in January '06. When the '08 version came out, I was contacted as the registered user and purchased the new edition immediately. For $25 how can one go wrong?The web is an open book - no telling where a child or student can end up. With the software edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, the resources are validated. Further, every subject article is written by a scholar from a well-known university. Hardly lightweight, brief, or of questionable truth, as can happen "on the web" and even with google, and other search engines, which are only as valid as the materials they bring up.Having researched Italy for a cultural project, I learned that the materials available were anything but brief. The maps were lovely, and easily enlarged (just zoom in, or resize), and I was able to copy and paste, and attribute these resources to the source. I wish I had more reasons to use the encyclopedia, I have enjoyed using it that much.Today I am online looking it up so I can include a hyperlink to it from my web site for my students to find this it on Amazon and purchase. I suggest that you do the same. :)Enjoy!
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