Gale’s K-12 eBook Sale Continues… New Encyclopedia of Africa is this Week’s Bargain Title

Gale is excited to launch the Easy Street Sale, an opportunity for K-12 schools to get started with eBooks, or add to their growing collection.  Check out this blog every week for a featured title at 50% off. This week, it’s the New Encyclopedia of Africa.

"Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara was a welcome and much-needed work when it was released a decade ago. It assembled in four volumes a wealth of knowledge about Africa from the perspective of historians who studied the continent closely and intensively. Compiled by the original collaborators, this set is an effort to replicate, rework, and expand on that fine resource. Middleton (Yale) and Miller (Univ. of Virginia) have gathered a great group of contributors to provide coherent and focused content, which results in a set that is more contemporaneous and reflective of the global integration that Africa has undergone since 1997. The more than 1200 A-to-Z entries (of which 600 are completely new) are detailed and multidisciplinary in scope, the maps scattered throughout are useful, and the abundant images give readers a real feel for the continent and its people, history, and life. Especially helpful are an appendix delineating ethnic and identity groups, a directory of contributors, a thematic outline of contents, and an elaborate index. BOTTOM LINE Rather than focusing on the African diaspora like Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates’s Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, this set focuses exclusively on Africa. An impressive update of an already impressive resource."
–Library Journal, February 15, 2008

Easy Budgeting

Ease into savings on eBooks and print products and enjoy the good life. Visit the Web site for a complete list of titles and discounts.

• 10% off new and not-yet-published titles
• 25% on select series titles
• Up to 30% off selected print and eBooks