The World Book Encyclopedia, 2019, is a general A-Z look-up source in 22 hard-cover volumes full of accurate and trustworthy facts. Whether you are proving a point during a dinner-table discussion or checking a fact for a homework assignment, answers are here! Tens of thousands of index entries make it easy for you to find information wherever it is in the set. Abundant colorful photos, diagrams, charts, tables, and maps supplement the easy-to-read...

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Featuring gorgeous photographs that illustrate and educate, this visual encyclopedia is jam-packed with thousands and thousands of images that bring more than one million things to light.

In 1777, a group of young men produced a book that aimed to tear the world apart and rebuild it, creating the foundation for what became known as the Enlightenment. The Encyclopedie was so dangerous and subversive that it was banned by the Pope and was seen as one of the causes of the French Revolution. The writers included some of the greatest minds of the age: Denis Diderot, the editor who had come to Paris to become a Jesuit but found the joys...

"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...

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An illustrated dictionary of approximately 11,000 entries, with special features such as word histories, student exercises, and vocabulary development tools--Provided by publisher.

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A highly illustrated one-volume encyclopedia containing entries ranging from Abolitionist movement to Zoos.

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