Webster's New College Dictionary offers more than 5,000 words & senses from all areas of vocabulary with special emphasis on high technology, science, medicine & social change. Biographical & geographical entries are completely updated, reflecting current events & the latest censuses. Includes contemporary typefaces, more than 400 updated drawings, tables for world Alphabets, Bible, Calendar, Currency, Elements, Geologic Time & Measurement as well as a style guide & section of forms of address. Hardbound dictionary contains 1,536 pages.