1972 was proclaimed International Book Year by the United Nations and made effective by UNESCO. In international book year(1972), jikji was recognized...
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The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom...
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the Year (the Nibbies) and The Trade Awards. 2019 saw the Children's Book of the Year category split into two categories: Children's Fiction Book of the...
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World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational...
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The International Geophysical Year (IGY; French: Année géophysique internationale), also referred to as the third International Polar Year, was an international...
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Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara) is the largest book fair in...
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Fifty years later (1932–1933) a second IPY took place. The International Geophysical Year was inspired by the IPY and was organized 75 years after the...
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Book of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best business book of the year as determined by the Financial Times. It aims to find the book that...
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Book Aid International is a UK registered charity which provides books and supports libraries in Africa and around the world. Every year the charity sends...
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PocketBook is a multinational company which produces e-book readers based on E Ink technology (an electronic paper technology) under the PocketBook brand...
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symbol for the time unit year (IUPAP Red Book). Since 1993, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Green Book also uses the same symbol...
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The Statesman's Yearbook (redirect from The Statesman's Year Book)
words Martin used in the preface of the first issue of the Statesman's Year-Book still applied to every volume a century later: "The great aim has been...
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The Europa World Year Book provides detailed country surveys containing analytical, statistical and directory data available for over 250 countries and...
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The World Book Capital (WBC) is an initiative of UNESCO which recognises cities for promoting books and fostering reading for a year starting on April...
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Kempe's Engineers Year Book was for many years a standard reference work of practical engineering information in the United Kingdom, covering a wide range...
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The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies 2015 or International Year of Light 2015 (IYL 2015) was a United Nations observance that...
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) is a book festival that takes place during two weeks in August every year in the centre of Edinburgh,...
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Guinness World Records (redirect from Guinness Book of World Records)
the book in London in August 1955. The first edition topped the bestseller list in the United Kingdom by Christmas 1955. The following year the book was...
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The International Year of Soils, 2015 (IYS 2015) was declared by the Sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly on December 20, 2013,...
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The International Space Year (ISY) was 1992, the year of the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492. First proposed by...
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is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book. As of 2015, the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation is Gaby...
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(ISBD). Each book is specified by an International Standard Book Number, or ISBN, which is meant to be unique to every edition of every book produced by...
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The Jerusalem International Book Forum (JIBF; Hebrew: פורום הספר הבינלאומי בירושלים), previously known as the Jerusalem International Book Fair, is a business...
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Jerusalem Prize (redirect from Jerusalem Book Prize)
society. It is awarded at the Jerusalem International Book Forum (previously known as the Jerusalem International Book Fair), and the recipient usually delivers...
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. It was chosen as both a New York...
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The Rabat International Book Fair (Arabic: معرض الرباط الدولي للكتاب) is an annual book fair held in Rabat, Morocco. It is the largest book fair in Morocco...
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track how many International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) are registered by each country. In descending order of number of new titles per year, as of the...
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The year 2007 (extended to 2008) was proposed and declared as the (International) Year of the Dolphin (YoD) by the United Nations and United Nations Environment...
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1-2. Singapore Year Book of International Law archive page. Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Asian Journal of International Law, CJO Web site...
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frustrating for the reader. In a publication analyzing the 1972 International Book Year, an estimate was given that as many as 57% of the citizens of an...
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