In good condition: cover has very light wear; some pages may have been damp at some point. ISBN 0716604809
Section One: Chronology: A month-by-month listing highlights some of the significant events of 1979
Section Two: The Year in Focus
Section Three: Special Reports -Call It SF or Sci-Fi, It's Big! by Isaac Asimov; Help and Hope from Hypnosis by Patricia Skalka; The Riches of Jupiter's Realm by Marsha F. Goldsmith; Do You Make Cage Calls, Doctor? by George Alexander; How Pollsters Take the Pulse of Politics by Richard Pawelek; Unlocking the Secrets of the Seven Seas by William J. Cromie; The Cult Question: No Easy Answers by Carroll Stoner and Jo Anne Parke
Section Four: A Year in Perspective -The Year Book casts a glance back at the events and personalities that made the year 1879 what it was.
Section Five: The Year on File - Year Book contributors report the year's major happenings in alphabetically arranged articles from "Advertising" to "Zoos and Aquariums".
Section Six: World Book Supplement - Eight new or revised articles are reprinted from the 1980 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia.
Section Seven: Dictionary Supplement - Here is a listing of important words and definitions that will be included in the 1980 edition of The World Book Dictionary.
Section Eight: Index - An 17-page cumulative index covers the contents of the 1978, 1979 and 1980 editions of The Year Book.
