This highly detailed three-volume encyclopedia spans the full extent of world history since 1900, including world leaders, diplomacy, conflicts, government, explorers, inventions, music, literature, film, athletes, and more. This edition has been completely updated by a leading scholar in world history and now contains hundreds of new entries concerning recent events and approximately 300 photographs, illustrations, and maps. New entries include: Madeleine Albright; Kofi Annan; Osama bin Laden; Tony Blair; George W. Bush; William Jefferson Clinton; Clones and cloning'; Czech Republic; East Timor; European Union; Globalization; Human Genome Project; Islamism; Stephen Jobs; Hamid Karzai and many others.