It has been substantially updated since the previous edition eight years ago.
Proponents note that many sections of the previous edition were lacking.
Care has been taken to incorporate political changes since the previous edition, in 1992.
The previous edition, he explained, had enabled him -- formerly a threadbare Chaucer specialist -- to buy a 26-foot sailboat.
As in the previous edition, Beethoven's works are written up flawlessly by Joseph Kerman, the dean of American musicologists.
Dickson's succinct and clever introduction, "A Brief History of Raised Glasses," also survives from the previous edition.
("Ain't" had already been in the previous edition, and the new one didn't "officially" recognize it as anything).
Illustrations of categories like mushrooms, herbs and tomatoes are given a better presentation, making them easier to understand than in the previous edition.
White's granddaughter, Martha, has expanded the previous edition of his letters by just about 10percentt — almost 100 additional letters, from the last nine years of his life.
Councilman Perkins, it turned out, had been shown in the previous edition with a mustache, which he had shaved shortly after publication.
As compared with the previous edition of the same survey, instead, he gained ground in five of the polls, and lost ground in four others.
