Encyclopedia of The Modern World, 3 Volume Set

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Covering the beginnings of the 20th century up to the present day with great detail and depth, Encyclopedia of the Modern World contains more than 8,000 entries of comprehensive information unavailable in any other similar work.

Viva-Facts On file Encyclopedia of The Modern World covers the full extent of world history since 1900, including world leaders, diplomacy, conflicts, government, explorers, inventions, music, literature, film, athletes, and more. It contains more than 8,000 entries of accessible information unavailable in any other similar volume. Originally compiled from numerous Facts On File Publications, this new edition has been completely updated by a leading scholar in world history and now contains hundreds of new entries concerning recent events, in addition to maps of the world"s nations and time lines of their recent history. To accommodate the new entries, artwork, and recent information, this new edition has been expanded into three easy-to-use volumes. International in scope and containing a wide selection of subjects, this work is an general reader with an interest in modern world history.

New entries include:
* Madeleine Albright * Kofi Annan * Osama Bin Laden * Tony Blair * George W. Bush * William Jefferson Clinton * Clones and cloning * Czech Republic * East Timor * European Union * Bill Gates * Globalization * Human Genome Project * Islamism * Stephen Jobs * Hamid Karzai * Microsoft * Napster * NASDAQ * Vladimir Putin * Al-Qaeda * J.K. Rowling * September 11, 2001 * Tiger Woods * and many others.

About the Author: William R. Keylor holds a Ph.D. in European history from Columbia University and is currently the director of the International History Institute at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including The Twentieth Century World: An International History Since 1900, Fifth Edition.