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198 x 253 x 72mm
An up-to-date, comprehensive and good value one volume encyclopedia. Revised every year, every entry in the Macmillan Encyclopedia has been checked to reflect the most recent events and developments. Over 25,500 entries cover everything from politics and science to medicine, people and sport, with new entries this year on the latest political developments around the world; new people of significance, including Vladimir Putin, the mayor of London, J K Rowling, Lennox Lewis and Lindsay Davenport; the latest in sports; and updates in science and technology, including a specially written article on pain by world expert Professor Patrick Wall, and the most recent advances in genetic modification and gene sequencing.