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Title: Ultimate Visual Dictionary by Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0-7894-2874-1 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent material - if only the pictures were bigger
Comment: I bought the paperback version of this excellent reference book after having looked at the hardcover version in the library. I was blown away by the beautiful illustrations and photos and the tremendous amount of information included. Each page has dozens of details, definitions, terms, etc., accompanied by paragraph or so descriptive overview of the topic and lovely, clear, illuminating illustrations and photos.
The only disappointing thing about this paperback edition is that it is shunk down in size compared to the hard-cover. Each page of the paperback version is about 61/2" x 51/4"- the hardcover has much larger pages (8" x 10" or thereabouts). I didn't realize this when I purchased my copy. The effect of shrinking each page so drastically is that each very detailed illustration, diagram or photo is much more crowded and a little eyestrain is involved in looking at them. You may want to consider springing for the higher-priced hardcover for this reason.
That quibble aside, however, this is an excellent and entertaining book to have around the house to look stuff up in (as I had to do when I finally read Moby Dick recently) or just to poke around randomly in. My 5 year old son absolutely loves this book (he's a bit of a techboy) and has obsessively perused its pages for a year now without getting tired of it. In fact, he's looked at it so much that the binding has broken - another reason you may want to consider the hardcover version.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best Visual Dictionary out there
Comment: This is the most detailed visual dictionary that I've seen. If you're a well educated adult in the English language, perhaps a writer, and you're trying to choose between The Firefly Visual Dictionary, The MacMillan Visual Dictionary, The Scholastic Visual Dictionary, even the old What's What dictionary (which I think got the craze started), and DK's "Ultimate Visual Dictionary" - this book is absolutely your choice. As an alternative you can choose one of DK's "Eyewitness" Visual Dictionaries--these are sections from the Ultimate Visual Dictionary sold separately. Don't make the mistake of buying both unless there's a reason you want duplication. You CAN, however, get both this book and DK's "Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science" which is a highly expanded version of the more generalized science sections of this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: disappointed
Comment: As others have mentioned, the print is much too small. There was no need to do this, as the book only measures 5 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches.
What is more upsetting, however, is (so far) everything I've looked up in the index gives the wrong page number. Since the book isn't alphabetized, and I have no desire to spend hours browsing through it in search of what I'm trying to find, the book is next to useless for me. Don't waste your money.
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Title: Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science by Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0789435128 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Ultimate Visual Dictionary by Jo Evans, Dorling-Kindersley ISBN: 0789499703 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Random House Webster's Word Menu by Stephen Glazier ISBN: 0375700838 Publisher: Random House Reference & Pub. Date: 21 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Macmillan Visual Dictionary : 3,500 Color Illustrations, 25,000 Terms, 600 Subjects by Jean-Claude Corbeil, Ariane Archambault ISBN: 0025281607 Publisher: Webster's New World Pub. Date: 14 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: DK Nature Encyclopedia by Dorling Kindersley Publishing ISBN: 0789434113 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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