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The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work New York: Americana Corp., 1963.
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In the 20th century, successful competitors included Collier's Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Americana, and the World Book Encyclopedia.
A well-known comparison is that of Kenneth Kister, who gave a qualitative and quantitative comparison of the Britannica with two comparable encyclopaedias, Collier's Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Americana.
In the accuracy category, the Britannica received one " D " and seven " A " s, Encyclopedia Americana received eight " A " s, and Collier's received one " D " and seven " A " s ; thus, Britannica received an average score of 92 % for accuracy to Americanas 95 % and Collier's 92 %.
Collier's has not been in print since 1998 ; the Encyclopedia Americana was last published in 2006 and Britannica announced the discontinuation of its print editions in 2012.
From 1902 to 1911, Scientific American supervised the publication of the Encyclopedia Americana, which during some of that period was known as The Americana.
During 1915 – 16, he taught philosophy at Harvard, then worked as an engineer for General Electric and wrote for the Encyclopedia Americana.
Written by 6, 500 contributors, the Encyclopedia Americana includes over 9, 000 bibliographies, 150, 000 cross-references, 1, 000 + tables, 1, 200 maps, and almost 4, 500 black-and-white line art and color images.
Long available as a 30-volume print set, the Encyclopedia Americana is now marketed as an online encyclopedia requiring a subscription.
The online version of the Encyclopedia Americana, first introduced in 1997, continues to be updated and sold.
Encyclopedia and International
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".
* International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences ( 2001 ), Statistics, " Econometrics and Time Series ," links to first-page previews of 21 articles.
" Hayek, Friedrich A von ( 1899 – 1992 )," International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, pp. 6482 – 6486.
* Schroeder-Heister, P. " Popper, Karl Raimund ( 1902 – 94 )," International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001, pp. 11727 – 11733. Abstract.
In the 2007 book International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Marc A. Ouellette directly contrasted misandry and misogyny, arguing that " misandry lacks the systemic, transhistoric, institutionalized, and legislated antipathy of misogyny.
He was a member of the Politburo ( 1924 – 1929 ) and Central Committee ( 1917 – 1937 ), chairman of the Communist International ( Comintern, 1926 – 1929 ), and the editor in chief of Pravda ( 1918 – 1929 ), the journal Bolshevik ( 1924 – 1929 ), Izvestia ( 1934 – 1936 ), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
* Pan-Slavism in " Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements " by Edmund Jan Osmanczyk
* Osroene becomes the first state which adopts Christianity as its official religion ( per New International Encyclopedia ).
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