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Every now and then a controversy over a high-profile book provokes discussion about whether that policy should change. When Naomi Wolf was embarrassed when some of the facts in her new book ...
Encyclopedia Britannica turned 250 this year, and to honor the Chicago-based company, we’ve rounded up a few factoids involving the books that are perhaps worthy of an entry themselves.
But a fun new book titled "Facts From Space!" makes learning about the universe easy and accessible. Dean Regas, an astronomer and public outreach educator at the Cincinnati Observatory ...
Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information" by The Wall Street Journal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts will answer all of your ...
When I set out to write my first book, I wanted to write a book that examined the very nature of facts and how we turn them into stories. To do this, I knew, I would have to get every fact that ...
Encyclopedias covered facts on nearly every topic you could think of. Updated books with new things were added each year so there was always another book to buy. With the rise of the Internet ...