The American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition--Book and CD-ROM

This richly finished dictionary features 10,000 new words and senses, guidance on grammar and usage, and over 4,000 full color photographs that give life to their entries. In colored format, entry words are a bright teal, while sidebar information is set into a pleasing light mustard hue, breaking up the text into easily searched and read portions. Notes are inserted into the text where appropriate, and include historical and usage remarks, as well as synonyms. With speckled page edges, gold-and-black thumb tabs, and illustrations of Phoenician, Greek and Roman letters at the beginning of each new letter, this detailed dictionary is a pleasure to read and research with. 2074 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. 4th Edition with CD-ROM.

The included CD-ROM includes the complete dictionary text, a college-level thesaurus with more than 260,000 defined synonyms, search features, spell-check capabilities, over 1,000 photographs & illustrations, and over 68,000 audio pronunciations.

System Requirements:

PC with Pentium II or higher and CD or DVD-ROM Drive

Windows 98, 2000, ME or XP

470 MB Free Disk Space

32 MB RAM on Windows 98/ME

64 MB RAM on Windows 2000

128 MB RAM on Windows XP

Microsoft Office 2000 or XP

Mac OS X (Jaguar and Panther)

440 MB Free Disk Space

Microsoft Office X.1 or above