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Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A 22-volume, highly illustrated, A-Z general encyclopedia for all ages, featuring sections on how to use World Book, other research aids, pronunciation key, a student guide to better writing, speaking, and research skills, and comprehensive index"--
Publisher
World Book Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A 22-volume, highly illustrated, A-Z general encyclopedia for all ages, featuring sections on how to use World Book, other research aids, pronunciation key, a student guide to better writing, speaking, and research skills, and comprehensive index"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Delves into the world of visualized data where stunning infographics that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships make information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful.
"In this sequel to the bestselling book The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless uses stunning and unique visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information,...
10) Alfred digs
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Alfred the aardvark lives with his mother on the "A" page of the dictionary, and when his pet ant, Itty Bitty, slips out of the ant farm to visit the zoo, Alfred goes after him, digging all the way down to "Z."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 granted, the process of writing dictionaries is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. Kory Stamper cracks open the complex,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Working as a door-to-door salesman in a South Florida trailer park, teenager Lem Altick witnesses the murders of two of his would-be customers and is forced into an alliance with the assassin, an extremist dedicated to animal rights.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zia remembers the exact night the Shadoom arrived. One moment she was laughing with her best friends, and the next a dark room of shadows had crept into her chest ... Until Zia discovers an old family heirloom: the C. Scuro Dictionary ... Hidden within its magical pages is a mysterious blue eraser ... When Zia starts to erase words that remind her of the Shadoom, they disappear one by one from the world around her ... But things quickly dissolve...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the efforts of an NPR contributor to read the "Encyclopedia Britannica" from A to Z, sharing the humorous mishaps that occurred as a result of the endeavor, from changed family relationships to his efforts to join Mensa.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Publisher
Larousse
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
Español
Description
El pequeño Larousse illustrado ha sido durante años una obra de consulta de enorme utilidad. Mas de 60 0000 palabras (nombres comunes). Incluye acepciones y locuciones, así como algunos desarollos enciclopédicos con información puntual, muy útil para los estudiantes. Hay palabras nuevos, etimologías, vocabulario técnico y cientifico, voces de la lengua culta y popular, vocablos de América Latina y España, además de anexos gramaticales....
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