Description
To follow up with last year's best-selling encyclopedia suite, TOPICS has assembled an updated version for 2001 that accurately reflects the changes and issues that mark and define the first year of the 21st century. With 3 high-quality encyclopedias on 3 CD-ROMs, this box set truly stands out as a complete solution for your home reference library. At TOPICS, our goal is to always publish the best quality software at a fair and reasonable price. Webster's Gold Encyclopedia 2001 Express Edition enables you to have several different sources of information to give you a more well-rounded and authoritative viewpoint on your subject matter. Why buy one encyclopedia when you can have three? In addition to the encyclopedias, this suite includes dictionaries, an atlas, internet hyperlinks, quiz sections, and slide shows.
Events that Changed the World
This CD-ROM is the definitive reference encyclopedia on the sixty greatest events that changed the course of history. From the first steps on the Moon, to the detonation of the Atomic Bomb, to the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World, this fascinating and informative software program takes the user on an exciting journey through mankindÃs history. An intuitive interface and a rich multimedia experience ensures that users will find this an informative and entertaining reference source.
Webster's World Encyclopedia 2001
This exceptional encyclopedia contains 11 million words, 12,000+ pictures and maps, up to 30 minutes of video footage, two dictionaries, a foreign phrase guide, up-to-the minute world news, and the latest on scientific research. This CD-ROM also contains an easy-to-use Project Creator option, making it the ideal source for school projects, summarizing information, and catering the CD to fit your specific interests and research needs. This is truly a multimedia sensation, based on the Cambridge University Encyclopedia, as well as other Cambridge reference works.
Hutchinson's Educational Encyclopedia 2000
As the top selling educational encyclopedia in Europe, this CD-ROM features over 50,000 articles, 10 million words, 40,000 hyperlinks, an integrated atlas, animations, and much more! With the emphasis on education, the content is highly authoritative and up-to-date, including - for example - articles on the Human Genome Project (Biology), negotiations over Palestine (History), quantum computing (Information Technology), etc. From medicine to communications, physics to art, this is the absolute best source of educational material in the electronic age, and is a must-have for all students.
System Requirements
- IBM Compatible Windows 95 or higher 486,
- 100 MHz or better (Pentium recommended)
- 20 MB HD
- 32 MB RAM
- 8X CD-ROM drive
- 16 bit high color, 800x600 resolution Windows compatible sound card
- Mouse Printer (optional)
- Modem (optional)
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