Barron’s New Student’s Concise Encyclopedia

Updates the 1992 edition. The audience is high school or below. Arrangement of entries, which are generally quite short, is in 24 sections, e.g. art, biology, history of the US, history of the world, language arts, life skills (checking accounts, study and learning aids), literature, psychology, religion. With such an arrangement, first reference must often be to the index, a cumbersome task, because the index is not particularly legible and makes no indication about which entries are the main ones for any given topic. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.