An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

What a World: Amazing Stories from Around the Globe, is a six-book series that explores many fascinating topics from around the world and across history. The stories in What a World cover a diverse range of high-interest topics, from biographical pieces to exploration of cultures in various historical and contemporary periods. Features Words that Go Together activities highlight collocations -- words that are easier to learn together. Critical Thinking questions develop students' thiniking skills. Spelling and Punctuation activities provide basic rules and practice for essential skills. Internet activities build students' Internet research skills. Self-Tests help students and teachers assess progress. What a World Listening -- a 3-level complementary series -- explores parallel themes to What a World Reading as it develops students' communication skills.

The lively and accessible narrative and the hallmark focus on social and cultural history that has made A History of World Societies one of the most successful textbooks for the world history course is now available in a lower price format. The two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative, the popular "Individuals in Society" feature, and select images and maps.

Taking the flagship series “ e-world” to the next level, Pearson introduces a new set of computer books for higher Secondary. Computer Applications presents key concepts in a comprehensive and detailed manner with focus on latest technological developments in the field of computers. Blended with rich pedagogy, concepts are explained using suitable screenshots, figures, diagrams and tables. Book provides the necessary and required emphasis on hands-on and practical aspects to the subject with a variety of questions and lab exercises. Key components): learning objectives - Quick tip - Quick fact - reinforcement Zone - Practice Zone - summary - glossary - assessments (objective type, descriptive type) - lab exercises - projects - Sample Question papers key components(digital) -interactivities - animations - videos - audio - assessments - projects - Cyber Olympiad questions - Book.

th I3E 2010 marked the 10 anniversary of the IFIP Conference on e-Business, e- Services, and e-Society, continuing a tradition that was invented in 1998 during the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TrEC 1998, in Hamburg (Germany). Three years later the inaugural I3E 2001 conference was held in Zurich (Switzerland). Since then I3E has made its journey through the world: 2002 Lisbon (Portugal), 2003 Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2004 Toulouse (France), 2005 Poznan (Poland), 2006 Turku (Finland), 2007 Wuhan (China), 2008 Tokyo (Japan), and 2009 Nancy (France). I3E 2010 took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) November 3–5, 2010. Known as “The Pearl” of South America, Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan, colorful, and vibrant city, surprising its visitors with a vast variety of cultural and artistic performances, European architecture, and the passion for tango, coffee places, and football disc- sions. A cultural reference in Latin America, the city hosts 140 museums, 300 theaters, and 27 public libraries including the National Library. It is also the main educational center in Argentina and home of renowned universities including the U- versity of Buenos Aires, created in 1821. Besides location, the timing of I3E 2010 is th also significant––it coincided with the 200 anniversary celebration of the first local government in Argentina.