Several times this week, I’ve had occasion to pull down a volume of The World Book Encyclopedia from the set that lived on a bookshelf at my parents’ house and now lives with me. Unfortunately, in my ...

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Promotes comprehension, knowledge retention, and research skills necessary for learning success Includes index, map volume, fact-in-brief boxes, special features, and quiz-based activities Contains ...

In an age before Google, parents pinned hopes for their children’s future onto promises made on their doorsteps by encyclopedia salesmen. Denis Boyles, the author of a history of the Encyclopaedia ...

The Nassau, Bahamas–based hybrid publisher and online bookseller will host its inaugural Christmas Book Fair next month—the latest effort in its mission to bring together Caribbean authors under one ...

The 86-year-old retired electrician, who has white hair and a lively step, had just finished his two Christmas gift books, "Let's Roll'' by Lisa Beamer and "A Single Step'' by Heather McCartney, wife ...

“This encyclopedia is a dream,” author Alistair McCartney declares right at the start of what he formally bills a novel. And in a sense this giddy literary jape is all three. Its form is that of an ...

Entries in a dictionary are “dry, functional, almost bureaucratically sapped of color or pop, like high-modernist architecture. Which trains you to think of the dictionary as a utility, not a quarry ...

This solid, low-priced offering is designed well for its target audience: kids. Although we wish there were more content (there are fewer than 25,000 articles), the mix of information, maps, time ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Book, Inc., (www.worldbook.com) a leading publisher of nonfiction children's book series, core reference, and digital learning platforms, today announced the new ...