The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been...
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with the first book published in 1963 and the last published posthumously in 2012. In addition to the main books, the Encyclopedia Brown series has...
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The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia. It was originally published in...
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were World Book and Funk and Wagnalls. As many as 90% were sold door to door. Jack Lynch says in his book You Could Look It Up that encyclopedia salespeople...
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The Ring Record Book and Boxing Encyclopedia is a book published yearly by The Ring magazine. Ring editor Nat Fleischer, noting that other sports had record...
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The World Sports Encyclopedia is a reference book of articles covering sports and sporting games throughout the world. The book was spearheaded by Polish...
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of well-known online encyclopedias that are accessible or formerly accessible on the Internet. The largest online encyclopedias are general reference...
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia is a nonfiction book by Simon Garfield, a British journalist and nonfiction...
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Funk & Wagnalls (redirect from Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia)
Corporation acquired the World Almanac. After failing to purchase rights to the text of the Encyclopædia Britannica and World Book Encyclopedia for its Encarta...
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online encyclopedia, also called an Internet encyclopedia, is a digital encyclopedia accessible through the Internet. Examples include Encyclopedia.com since...
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Book of Knowledge is a topical children's encyclopedia first published in 1912. Book of Knowledge may also refer to: Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms...
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inspiration from the richly illustrated 1947 edition of the American World Book Encyclopedia, the plan for Focus as conceived by Sven Lidman (born 1921) was...
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the encyclopedia. The book was well-received on publication, receiving the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award in 1998. The Encyclopedia was...
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RQ 25 (1985): 175. The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Mahwah, New Jersey: World Almanac Books, 1997. World Book Encyclopedia, 1997 ed., s.v. "Wedding...
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Encarta. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Kobasa, Paul A. "Encyclopedia." World Book Online Reference Center. 2008. [Place of access.] 13 Jan. 2008...
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Collier's Encyclopedia is a discontinued general encyclopedia first published in 1949 by P. F. Collier and Son in the United States. With Encyclopedia Americana...
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The Know-It-All (redirect from The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World)
person in the world". The book is organized alphabetically in encyclopedia format and recounts both interesting facts from the encyclopedia and the author's...
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The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, America the Beautiful, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Amazing Animals of the World, and Lands...
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Source Book was the most common name for a family of American encyclopedias published from the 1910s through 1936. Work began on the original project around...
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Grolier (redirect from Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia)
general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana...
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Islands". World Book Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. Field Enterprises. pp. 133–134. "Canary Islands". The Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed.). Encyclopedia.com. 2015...
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The New York Public Library Desk Reference (category Reference book stubs)
ranked after multi-volume works The World Book Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana and Collier's Encyclopedia, but slightly ahead of the New Encyclopædia...
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in 1970. Mariano was an editor for World Book Encyclopedia and an associate editor for Science Year, the World Book Science Annual, as well as the assistant...
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Childcraft (category Children's encyclopedias)
of the World Book encyclopedia. The series' title was Childcraft – The How and Why Library. Childcraft was created as a sort of encyclopedia for young...
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(ed.). The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Simon and Schuster. The World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Inc., 2007, ISBN 0-7166-0107-9;...
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the Arabic language. It is in part a translation of the American World Book Encyclopedia, edited and expanded to reflect an Arab–Muslim perspective. Its...
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to the greatest world encyclopedias of its time, such as Encyclopædia Britannica. At the beginning of the 1880s, Jan Otto, a Czech book-seller and publisher...
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Schuster and Pocket Books, broadcaster Field Communications, and the World Book Encyclopedia. It also operated a syndication service, Field Newspaper Syndicate...
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enjoyed reading. When he was three, in 1968, his mother bought a World Book Encyclopedia from a door-to-door salesman. As he grew up and learned to read...
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Wikipedia (redirect from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and...
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