An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students. Includes some foldout pages.

Uses text and computer-generated artworks to provide detailed, realistic explorations of a wide range of topics in six broad categories. Includes glossary.

A general elementary encyclopedia with brief illustrated articles covering an alphabetical array of topics.

"Soccer introduces readers to the sport of soccer. In addition to learning the basic skills and strategies of the sport, readers will discover the history of soccer and how the sport is played around the globe. Readers will also learn about the iconic teams and players that have made soccer the most popular sport in the world. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index." --

3,000 of the most interesting, entertaining, fascinating, unbelievable, unusual, and fantastic facts.

"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and...

By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But, the complexity...

"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...