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The 1983 World Book Year Book (Very good, 1978, HC, 608 pages, World Book-Childcraft)

The 1983 World Book Year Book (Very good, 1978, HC, 608 pages, World Book-Childcraft)

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In very good condition: cover has very light wear; some pages may have been damp at some point. ISBN 071660485x

A Review of the Events of 1982

  • Section One: The Year in Brief
  • Section Two: The Year in Focus
  • Section Three: Special Reports -The High Court: at the Center of a Storm Again by Richard Pawelek; The ABC's of Testing by Winton H. Manning; The Coming Cropland Crisis by Lester R. Brown; The Video Resolution by Mark Schubin; What Went Wrong in Central America by Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr.; Food, Fads, Fat, and Fitness by Neil Solomon
  • Section Four: A Year in Perspective - The Year Book casts a glance back at the events and personalities that made the year 1882 what it was.
  • Section Five: The Year on File - A 50-question quiz - on pages 176 and 177 - tests your knowledge of some of the events of 1982; after which Year Book contributors report the year's major happenings in alphabetically arranged articles from "Advertising" to "Zoos and Aquariums".
  • Section Six: World Book Supplement - Seven new or revised articles are reprinted from the 1983 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 1983 edition of The World Book Dictionary.
  • Section Eight: Index - An 17-page cumulative index covers the contents of the 1981, 1982 and 1983 editions of The Year Book.
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