The 4-volume full-color Volume Library provides a convenient, comprehensive reference for parents to keep up-to-date on subjects their kids are learning. Covers forty school subjects and includes a comprehensive state-of-the-art atlas with world, historical, and tracing maps. GeoHelp, Southwestern's interactive geography CD, is bound into Volume 3. A respected home reference book, the Volume Library's many uses can be summed up into 4 categories.
LEARNING - it offers details and clear instructions in practical skills, such as math and writing.
RESEARCH - access to understandable information that supplements textbooks.
REFERENCE - thousands of important names, dates, places, and events are easily available.
BROWSING - introduces the reader to many fields and can often lead to further study of more specialized materials.
Volume One & Two
 These two books are divided into twenty-eight sections in 6 major categories: Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Language, History, and the World. Sections are Computers, Invention/Technology; Animals, Astronomy/Space, Biology, Chemistry, Earth, Environment, Physics, Plants; Business/Economics, Government/Law, People, Sociology; English Grammar, English Writing, Foreign Language, History of Art, History of Literature, History of the World, the current world makeup, and a comprehensive index. The Volume Library is a library in itself.
Volume One includes the Britannica Homework Essentials CD ROM which includes thousands of articles to help with homework, maps, and videos and photos to make the info come alive!
Volume Two also includes The New Way Things Work CD ROM. Bursting with cool machines, packed with movies and animations, and loaded with all kinds of gizmos, journey with author/illustrator David Macaulay as he explores the fascinating world of history’s greatest inventors and explains the workings of more than 150 of their most simple and complex machines and inventions.
Volume Three
A complete and updated World Atlas. Contains maps of each country, state, and province in Canada. Features homework maps, historical maps, and a section on taking standardized tests. Comes packaged with GeoHelp - an interactive geography CD for children
 Volume Three includes the Berlitz Essentials CD ROM. Berlitz Essentials includes everything a student needs to learn basic Spanish, French, Italian, & German and is a great source to gain a working knowledge of these languages, both orally and in written communication!
Volume Four
Volume Four has the 6 subject areas most commonly taken as Advanced Placement (AP) tests: U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, Biology, Calculus, English, Literature, and English Composition.
 Volume Four also includes 5 Steps to a 5 CD ROM which has 2 APpractice tests for the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Calculus AB, Statistics, English Language, English Literature, Writing the AP Essay, and more! |