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2) Compton's
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26 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm
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English
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304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A brand-new, traditional general reference title for kids ages 7-9 that encompasses all that DK is about: age-appropriate, jargon-free text accompanied by detailed images on a variety of topics all in one place, from science and nature to history and the arts.
5) Famous first facts: a record of first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history
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xvii, 1307 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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525 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Español
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"Con multitud de datos e ilustraciones impactantes, este excelente libro ofrece una alternativa fiable para toda la familia frente a las dudosas fuentes de información online. Esta enciclopedia completamente ilustrada es el antídoto frente a Internet. Es una gran obra de referencia escrita por expertos para un mundo sobrecargado con informaciones poco fiables. Desde física cuántica hasta el Teorema de Pitágoras, desde la Antigua Roma hasta las...
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453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
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360 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares information on a range of topics, including space, nature, and sports, to provide readers with facts that range from how hurricanes form and where the vikings raided to Earth's biggest volcano and most poisonous mushroom.
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xiii, 296 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"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...
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314 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little brother, Davey, suffers from a rare form of gigantism and is taunted by other kids and turned away from school because of his size. To escape their cruel reality, Lenny and Davey obsess over the entries in their monthly installment of Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia set. Lenny vows to become a beetle expert, while Davey decides he will run away to Canada and build a log cabin. But as Davey's...
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English
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"A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English. ... [English professor] Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers,...
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270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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Español
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"'Cuando Ari le dijo a su madre: -Mamá, ¿que es metáfora?, ella contestó: -Cariño, esa palabra aún te queda grande'. Asi comienza la aventura de la pequeña Ari, en la que se propone desvelar los misterios de las palabras que desconoce y que guarda con cariño en su caja de palabras."--P. 4 of cover.
A little girl writes down all the words she does not understand and puts them in a box. For her eighth birthday, her parents give her a dictionary...
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