Praise for the previous editions:"For the most information in one source, The World Almanac remains the champion."--Americ an Library Association"...a powerhouse of statistics, facts, lists, and stories...It is hard to imagine a question you might have that is not covered by this reference."--Ameri can Reference Books Annual"My #1 reference work for facts."--Will Shortz, The New York Times Crossword Editor"...the most useful reference book known to modern man."--Los Angeles TimesThe World Almanac and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 80 million copies sold. Published annually since 1868, this compendium of information is the authoritative source for all your entertainment, reference, and learning needs. Praised as a "treasure trove of... Less

This bilingual board book with a sliding panel uses Eric Carle?s vibrant artwork to teach the names of common animals in both English and Spanish. The panel slides back and forth to reveal the name of the animal in English (?dog?) and in Spanish (?perro?). The facing page features a simple sentence about the animal in both languages.

This bilingual board book with a sliding panel uses Eric Carle?s vibrant artwork to teach the names of common animals in both English and Spanish. The panel slides back and forth to reveal the name of the animal in English (?dog?) and in Spanish (?perro?). The facing page features a simple sentence about the animal in both languages.

My mercy is upon you, for in my mercy, in my love, I am bringing man's rule to an end. My Son shall return to establish a kingdom of light, a world where innocent children shall prosper and run with laughter....

My Son the Soccer Player Book. This unique book offers an inside scoop on some of the best in the game from those closest to them - their parents!. Inside the game!. This book is a collection of interviews with parents of some of the best players in the game. They offer advice, tips and a unique perspective on our game. Includes interviews with the parents of Messi, Ronaldinho, Drogba, Maradona, Iniesta, Zidane, Villa, Maldini, Cruyff, Donovan, Owen, Kahn, Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and more. All in all 50 parents are featured. Includes four-color pictures. 314 pages. .

Reef Fish Identification "3rd Edition" The standard fish ID reference for underwater naturalists and marine scientists since 1989 just got better! The enlarged 3rd edition has grown by 20 percent including the addition of more than 100 exciting new fish species. The scientifically up-dated text now boasts 825 classic marine life photographs of 600 common and rare reef fish species. The easy to use, quick-reference format designed for divers makes it a snap to identify the myriad fishes that inhabit the waters of Florida, the Caribbean, Bahamas and now Brazil! Featuring a new durable, cloth-stitched flexi-binding that folds flat for easy use and water-repellent plastic covers.(512 pages 6" x 9" water resistant plastic covers) Reef Creature Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas "2nd... Less

This student activity book accompanies BJU Press' World History, Grade 10, 3rd Edition Student Text. It includes a variety of activities, including short answer, fill-in-the-blank, matching and other types of workpage questions, along with charts, map studies, literature study, review questions, a photograph quiz and more. 246 full-color pages, softcover. This resource is also known as Bob Jones World History Student Activity Book, Grade 10, 3rd Edition.

Once upon a time, people kept diaries as books that they wrote special things into. Franklin Any Book Keepsake Reader Family Edition is an electronic diary for your own verbal keepsakes and for sharing with those you love. Tiny and easy to use, thoughts and fancies are recorded digitally for others to listen (or read) in the future. -Franklin Any Book Keepsake Reader isn't a traditional eBook reader as the contents are recorded by you. It's a great way to create a book that you can Communicate with others. Whether a parent is sharing experiences and insight or whether a child records thoughts and dreams, this is a living diary. -Take your treasures and turn them into something more. Record remembrances and other treasured thoughts. Save memories and create new traditions all with the new... Less

When the first Oz book was published in 1900, it was unlike anything in the history of American culture. L. Frank Baum's magical story captured our imagination and transformed the way we view the world. Now, for the first time in publishing history, you can create a literary treasure for your family with the first-ever replicas of the entire 15-volume series of Wizard of Oz books. This masterpiece collection is 100% authentic to the ground-breaking first editions of the Wizard of Oz book series in every exacting detail, and includes a stunning 3-piece Wizard of Oz bookend set* - a $149.97 value, yours FREE. Start to collect your complete Wizard of Oz book series beginning with Issue One, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at a special introductory price of $39.99, personally hand-signed by L... Less

Bert Riedel, an eighty-six year-old deaf-blind pianist, cut off from the world since age forty-five, discovers a new life through hand-over-hand sign. This is a heartwarming narrative about the life changing power of sign language communication told by Diane Chambers, Bert's sign language teacher. Diane finds her world transformed as well by her relationship with her unique student. Words in My Hands is the true story of their unforgettable journey. Softcover; 263 pages. Product dimensions (imp

Only $5 More for Personalization! This My Quiet Soft Book makes a wonderful gift when it includes the child's first name! What really says "you're special" to a child than to have a soft book with their own name on it. So take this opportunity to make your child's gift very extraordinary! Add 1 line of embroidered personalization with 12 characters. No returns or exchanges are allowed for personalized items. Please allow 1-2 weeks for this item to reach you as it is shipped to you from the manufacturer. Drop Ship (shipping weight 5 lbs)

Sing around the world, from high in the mountains to low in the valleys, in every town and city, with all the fish, birds, trees and flowers of the Earth. Featuring informative end-notes on the environment and global warming, this book and CD combo is adapted from the popular gospel spiritual. This Music CD features well-known singalong song with an environmental twist. It is printed on ancient forest friendly paper and includes great tips on how to keep our earth healthy and happy.

Discover the historical importance of religion in the world's cultures   Closely edited for clarity and readability, and conceived for students with little or no background in the academic study of religions, Religions of the World offers the most up-to-date and historically accurate coverage of the world’s major religions.  It not only explains to students why it is imperative to study religions, but does this through the support of primary source documents, coverage of religions as they exist today, and integrated media resources.   In preparing the twelfth editi on of Religions of the World, Mark Woodw ard drew on his introductory teaching experience – to thousands of undergraduates over the last decade – and his living / working experiences in Asian Christian, Buddhist, Confucian... Less

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this economically priced version of WORLD HISTORY, Seventh Edition offers readers the complete narrative with only the most essential features, photos, and maps. From the dawn of civilization to the modern dilemmas of nation building in Africa and the Middle East, CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: WORLD HISTORY takes a fascinating look at the common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and inform the future. Authors William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel's best-selling text features an easy-to-read narrative and uses images, maps, and dramatic first-hand historical accounts to give readers a powerful perspective on the human experience over time, and help students understand the course of world history and... Less

Dubbed "The Piano Cat" by one of her biggest fans, Billy "The Piano Man" Joel, Nora continues to delight young and old alike. The videos of this amazing feline have been viewed millions of times online, and she has been featured in the world-wide media, including Animal Planet, the BBC, the Fuji Network, CNN, Martha Stewart, The Ellen Degeneres Show, and many others, as well as magazines and newspapers from New Zealand to Finland to the United Arab Emirates. She may only have two paws, but that simple two-note chord has been heard around the world. Whether you have been reading for eighty years, are learning to read, or still being read to, My Story by Nora The Piano Cat will bring a smile to your face and a chuckle to your heart.

With delightful illustrations and poetic words, follow the bunny as he greets all things familiar in "Your world. My world."

A Book For My Friend assumes a shared delight in the beauty of the natural world. It is an ideal gift to bestow on a good friend. Welleran Poltarnees again works his magic at finding the perfect image to vitalize each thought. Here he takes an old poem called ?Let's Be Friends? and makes of it a book that we think will deepen one's appreciation of the natural world and the simple pleasures of daily life.

In this delightful collection children discover fish, frogs, cats, dogs, dinosaurs, teddy bears, and clowns. 24 Pages. Recommended Ages: 3 years & up Features/Spec. - 24 page activity book - For use with Do-A-Dot markers

Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do they come from? Find out....

The day following the infamous D-Day invasion, author Everett W. Haegele set sail from New York to England with the 7th Armored Division of the U.S. Army to join the Allied offensive in France. Haegele s memoir, based on a diary he kept during his German imprisonment, reveals the intimate details of army life and combat during World War II.Haegele arrived at Omaha Beach a month after the Normandy Invasion, but still in time to witness the chilling aftermath of D-Day. It wasn t long before he and his comrades saw combat. The 7th Division spearheaded for the 3rd Army under General Patton, fighting through France, Belgium, and Holland.In October of 1944, Haegele and a small force of soldiers faced a German Panzer division with orders to delay them for forty-eight hours, but they were overrun... Less

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Have a Nice Life: My Book for Your Life by Nick Nice Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Have A Nice Life: My Book For Your Life outlines the true-life transformation of a wanna-be-thug into an inspirational guru. Through reading countless books and absorbing the wisdom gained through everyday life experiences and poor decision making the author motivates pesky, knuckle-headed young adults to transform their own l

ART HISTORY provides students with the most student- friendly, contextual, and inclusive art history survey text on the market.  These hallmarks make ART HISTORY the choice for instructors who seek to actively engage their students in the study of art.    This new edition of ART HISTORY is the result of a happy and productive collaboration between two scholar-teachers (Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren) who share a common vision that survey courses on the history of art should be filled with as much enjoyment as erudition, and that they should foster an enthusiastic, as well as an educated, public for the visual arts.    Like its predecessors, this new edition seeks to balance formal and iconographic analysis with contextual art history in order to craft interpretations that will... Less

The standard fish ID reference for underwater naturalists and marine scientists since 1989 just got better! The enlarged 3rd edition has grown by 20 percent including the addition of more than 100 exciting new fish species. The scientifically up-dated text now boasts 825 classic marine life photographs of 600 common and rare reef fish species. The easy to use, quick-reference format designed for divers makes it a snap to identify the myriad fishes that inhabit the waters of Florida, the Caribbean, Bahamas and now Brazil! (512 pages 6" x 9" water resistant plastic covers)

Everyone today wants to read more about adventures. You can pick up this book and read about adventures that happened in the real world to real people. These are adventures that happened to men and women, boys and girls who lived in Bible times, exciting times. These heroes and heroines are people just like you. They faced up to problems and danger with God's help. Perhaps they sometimes felt like giving up? But with God's strength they struggled on determined and brave. Read about these amazing people in the Bible and begin your own adventure with God. The Bible has every sort of adventure story you could ever dream of - battles; death-defying escapes; abandoned babies; heart-moving come-backs; giant slayers; incredible journeys and prison breakouts. Every one of them is true. Every one... Less

Free Worldwide Delivery : My World Board Book : Board book : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780694008629 : 0694008621 : 15 Apr 2003 : This companion to everyone's favorite bedtime story "Goodnight Moon" allows young readers to revisit the beloved world of a little bunny and his family. This gentle tale is now available in a board-book format for the first time. Full color.

Here's a great way to introduce young children to the world and to maps. This colorful sticker book atlas includes a large poster of the world, a special introductory section that helps children develop map-reading skills, and more than 50 stickers. Full color. 200 photos and illustrations. Each title concentrates on a particular concept, teaching young readers via visual puzzles and colorful stickers. Useful facts are backed up with questions and games.

An interactive coloring book for fashionistas of all ages, My Wonderful World of Fashion is packed withbeautiful and sophisticated illustrations specially created by the leading fashion- illustrator Nina Chakrabarti. The book encourages creativity, with illustrations to color in and designs to finish off, as well as simple ideas for making and doing (how to make a sari, turn a napkin into a headscarf, dye a T-shirt, and so on). Covering clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, and other accessories, the illustrations span both vintage fashionsdrawing on beautiful and interesting objects from past agesand contemporary designs from the illustrator's own imagination.'Did you know...?' features that give brief historical notes encourage children to be inspired by history and by other cultures. A... Less

This personal story couples themes of home and family with bold, vibrant artwork to create a touching story about overcoming separation anxiety. Forced to confront her concern for her fisherman father’s safety, a young girl from a small village learns to find faith and security in her family. Lucid and vivid, this moving tale captures the sights and sounds of Portugal while examining the enduring strength of family bonds. A free, downloadable booklet with suggestions for further activities is available at www. wingedchariot. com.

An interactive coloring book for fashionistas of all ages, My Wonderful World of Fashion is packed withbeautiful and sophisticated illustrations specially created by the leading fashion- illustrator Nina Chakrabarti. The book encourages creativity, with illustrations to color in and designs to finish off, as well as simple ideas for making and doing (how to make a sari, turn a napkin into a headscarf, dye a T-shirt, and so on). Covering clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, and other accessories, the illustrations span both vintage fashionsdrawing on beautiful and interesting objects from past agesand contemporary designs from the illustrator's own imagination.'Did you know...?' features that give brief historical notes encourage children to be inspired by history and by other cultures. A... Less

T-n-T Designs *Brand New 2012 Guinness World Records® Book Hard Copy Collector's Edition Our 2012 Guinness World Records Book includes 100% new photos and fully updated records. Features new sections on The Royal Wedding, 2012 apocalyptic doomsday predictions, codes and cryptology, the latest Olympic records, pop culture in all its many forms, and much more! Read fascinating intro articles about the stories behind the records, and test yourself and your friends with quiz questions about the fa