The DK Concise Encyclopedia is divided into nine sections of photographs cutaway artworks fact boxes and illustrated timelines. Each section begins with a picture page and list of contents. At-a-glance fact boxes appear on many pages giving interesting and useful information on particular subjects and running heads remind you which section you are in. Timelines chart the changes and events within history space music art and many more topics. the atlas section of the book includes full-colour maps as well as fact pages full of essential statistics on each country.