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Series
Explore and learn volume 2
Pub. Date
2007, ©2005
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 318 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age. An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist from the perspective of a fourteenth-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and thirty volumes—here abridged to one volume, and translated...
Author
Description
"Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) "irregardless?" Did you know that OMG was first used in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill? These are the questions that keep lexicographers up at night. While most of us might take dictionaries for...
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
xviii, 806 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Description
Everything you always wanted to know about BC, with more than 4,000 entries and hundreds of photos, maps, tables and charts, plus an interactive CD-ROM.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
"Forming part of a fantastic series of kid's educational books, this bold and brilliant kid's encyclopedia uses ground-breaking CGI imagery to reveal the world as you've never seen it before. Informative, diverse in subject matter, easy-to-read and brimming with beautiful graphics, young learners can explore the incredibly detailed cross-sections and cutaways that reveal the inner workings of the world around them, featuring floods, hurricanes, volcanoes,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient...
16) Natural world
Series
Explore and learn volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
319 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Discover an all-in-one encyclopedia that takes you on an explanatory tour of the world from your own body to outer space. Have you ever wondered how an email gets to someone on the other side of the world in just a few seconds or why it's a bad idea to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm? Discover the answers to all these questions and more with this mind-boggling books of facts. Each page of this mind-blowingly detailed and ambitious encyclopedia...
20) Animales
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
288 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
"El reino animal como nunca antes lo habías visto. Repleto de ilustraciones en 3D, Animales acerca al lector a un mundo en constante evolución para descubrir cómo vive y cómo se relaciona con su entorno cada habitante del planeta. Animales está lleno de divertidas curiosidades y datos relevantes de especies de todo el reino animal: desde las alas de un espectacular albatros a la majestuosidad del tiburón blanco, el libro es un repaso por...
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