Author(s): Elizabeth Knowles

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This brand new collection offers a vivid picture both of the world today, and of the landmark events and key voices leading to it. From Scott's Antarctic Expedition in 1912 to the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, it charts watersheds such as two World Wars as well as the ebbs and flows of popular culture.

• Comprehensive: key quotations of today underpinned by landmark voices of the past in 5,000+ quotations, 1900-2003


• Informative and entertaining: from the deeply serious to the frivolous and surreal


• Improved international coverage: quotations from Don Bradman, Italo Calvino, Jean Chr?tien, J. M. Coetzee, David Cronenberg, Toni Morrison


• Up to the minute: with Soundbites 2002-3 including quotations from Halle Berry, Ryan Giggs, Germaine Greer, Steve Jones, Nigella Lawson, Jerry Seinfeld, Fay Weldon, Serena Williams