Eyewitness World Atlas CD-ROM

by D.K. Publishing

This CD-ROM presents data as never before in a stunning fusion of style and content. Beautifully detailed maps, photographs, and videos are backed up with enough facts, statistics, charts, and graphs to satisfy anyone. View the world through compelling cartographic maps, dazzling images, and exciting 3D graphics. Or, explore the huge encyclopedic database using state-of-the-art software features.

Additional features:
* 500,000 words of text in a searchable database
* Over 40,000 separate data fields
* Approximately 400 maps
* Thousands of graphs and charts, generated "live" from the database
* 33 videos
* 250 photographs
* Flags for every country in the world
* An extensive online site accessed from the disc

DK Multimedia Minimum System Requirements: Personal computer with 75MHz or faster Pentium(r) processor with at least 16 MB RAM, 8- or 16-bit sound card, quad-speed CD-ROM drive, 16-bit (32,000 color), 800 x 600 pixel display, Windows 95

CD-ROM

First published March 15, 1998

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.